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    <p>Hi Walter,</p>
    <p>I have been working on an alternative 'aslolite' to ASLO which
      will work on a schoolserver. This requires all of the activity
      bundles be local. Access is by a simple web interface  The entire
      aslolite is < 5GB. If this space were available somewhere
      online, I could share aslolite with the community. <br>
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    Users with an Ubuntu Sugar would download the folder (could be
    tarball). From <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file://home/username/aslolite/index.html">file://home/username/aslolite/index.html</a> they can
    browse all 514 activities, click on one of interest, which Browse
    will download and install. The activity can be immediately launched
    from the Home View. Bundles for activities in github were built by
    setup.py from the repository. Others were downloaded directly from
    ASLO. <br>
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    Current limitations are some missing icons, summary descriptions are
    from ASLO and need the ones from activities with summarize in
    activity.info. The update to TurtleBlocks-218 has not been made. If
    it is ready, a bundle of MusicBlocks should be made and included.<br>
    <br>
    The activity tile does contains a help button for those activities
    with Help.<br>
    <br>
    Aslolite should work from an XSCE server for an XO deployment.<br>
    <br>
    Tony<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday, 24 May, 2018 11:29 AM,
      Walter Bender wrote:<br>
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          <div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:26 PM Dave Crossland
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                  <div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:54 PM James
                    Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org"
                      target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">quozl@laptop.org</a>>
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                    Tony's insistence on ASLO continues to amuse me. 
                    Most distribution of<br>
                    activities now happens through bundles, tarballs,
                    and GitHub.  ASLO is<br>
                    rarely used by distributors or indeed useful for
                    anything except<br>
                    personal searches for broken activities.  Tony's
                    numbers make it<br>
                    plain.  My own plan is to remove the link to
                    "activities" in Browse<br>
                    default page; plenty of disk space these days to
                    include all working<br>
                    activities in a build.<br>
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              <div dir="auto">Good to hear real world usage of aslo has
                entered terminal decline. When will it be turned off?</div>
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          <div>I am not a fan of the current activity server, but I am a
            fan of having lots of activities for our users to explore
            beyond the ones that were chosen for them. So it seems we
            need some way for them to explore, even if deployments (and
            deployers) feel otherwise.</div>
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          <div>-walter </div>
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            <div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br>
              <font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div>
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