[Systems] API for activities.sugarlabs.org?

[Pablo Flores]

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.

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?
- Could we separate somehow the reviews made by our users (for instance, to
know the rating uruguayan users give to the activity)?

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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