[Systems] API for activities.sugarlabs.org?

[David Farning]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Pablo Flores <pflores2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks David for your answer.
>
> The biggest drawback I find in using ASLO for our applications is that you
> need a different login user/pass, which is not big stuff but makes it
> unpractical, even more if we want to encourage teachers to write their
> reviews.
>
> Ahhh.  These are the sorts of things that I am concerned about.  Will minor
hassle like passwords (Yes, I understand that passwords are _not_ a minor
hassle when you have have enough users.)  Turn us into silos rather than a
starfish.

I will look into this.

If we could make an automatic login in ASLO with openId it could be a good
> solution. Then we just would have to personalize the interface to make it
> ceibalJAM-like. We could use collections to separate our activities from
> others.
>
> Some more questions:
> - Can I have a feed of the activities uploaded/updated from a collection or
> from a category?
>

Yes, I think so.  I will double check.... but I think you can ask for a
collection name or number and aslo will send back a list of activities in
that collection.  Then you can follow up with calls asking for
latest.activity.  Maybe alsroot know more.  If not I can write a simple
python script to generate that info.


> - Could we separate somehow the reviews made by our users (for instance, to
> know the rating uruguayan users give to the activity)?
>
>
This might be harder.  I don't think ASLO is aware of the notion of user
groups.  but it makes sense that Uruguayan teachers would like to read the
reviews provided by other Uruguayan teachers.

david


> Saludos,
> Pablo Flores
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:50 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>wrote:
>
>> Hey Pablo,
>> I am glad you and Ceibal find activities.sugarlabs.org useful:)
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Pablo Flores <pflores2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Dogi, David.
>>>
>>> I'm working in ceibalJAM!, an NGO that is developing educational free
>>> software for Ceibal Plan in Uruguay.
>>>
>>
>> Awesome. The more the merrier.  I am ccing the systems list because this
>> sounds like a closely related to an effort to share Turtle Art Creations.
>>
>>
>>> Right now we have in our portal some tools for developers, that we are
>>> thinking in the possibility of integrating them as much as possible with
>>> SugarLabs. Specifically, we would like to automate some way to synchronize
>>> the activities we upload in our portal (
>>> http://drupal.ceibaljam.org/?q=lista_descargas) with yours (
>>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org).
>>>
>>>
>> My first thought is to adapt the ASLO portal with some new php templates
>> to match your input and output requirements.  Then create a work flow for
>> ceibalJAM to push it's activities though the sugar labs translation system
>> so they are automatically available to the entire world.
>>
>> My Rational.
>>
>> 1. One of Sugar Labs strengths as an Open Source project is to create an
>> environment where it is possible to leverage and share the work of
>> individuals and groups with the entire world.  As much as possible we want
>> to keep stuff in tree.  Activities.sugarlabs.org is in tree for
>> activities.
>>
>> 2.  Maintaining individual download portals is hard. ASLO is _just_ the
>> front end to a Content Distribution Network which allows us to serve
>> activities via a global mirror network.  http://mirrors.sugarlabs.org/
>>
>> So, the first question is, does your software provide some API for
>>> updating our uploads in your activities zone automatically?
>>>
>>
>> We do not have an API for uploading to ASLO.  The downloading api can be
>> seen in the 'update from aslo' code in Sugar .88.
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Sugar_Update_Control_ASLO .  The
>> example given on that page shows a user requesting information about the
>> latest version of browser for sugar .82.
>>
>>
>>> Thanks, and go ahead with your great work!
>>>
>>
>> Moving forward.
>>
>> 1.  Would it be possible to give you, or another trusted developer at
>> ceibalJam, Admin access to activities.sugarlabs.org so you can maintain
>> your activities there?  If not, what are the shortcomings of ASLO which
>> prevent it from meeting your needs?
>>
>>
>> or 2. Can you point the download links on the
>> http://drupal.ceibaljam.org/?q=lista_descargas to upstream ASLO links
>> such as
>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/latest/4030/addon-4030-latest.xo?src=CeibalJAMwhere 4030 is the ASLO number of individual activities?  This guarantees
>> that down loaders will get the most recent version of a given activity.
>> This will let you build on our existing content delivery network.  +1 for
>> setting up a Sugar Labs CDN mirror in Uruguay<http://drupal.ceibaljam.org/?q=node/12>.
>>
>> or 3. Can we work together to extend the ASLO update APIs to meet your
>> needs and create upload APIs which allow you to upload new activities to
>> ASLO via a client side script.
>>
>> david
>>
>> Saludos,
>>> Pablo Flores
>>>
>>
>>
>
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