[Sugar-devel] aslolite (was: ASLO shut down target date? (was: licensing question))

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:46 AM Tony Anderson <tony at olenepal.org> wrote:

> Hi Walter,
>
> 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.
>

Is the code in a repo somewhere where we can all look at it? Is the ALSOv3
work not compatible with the goal of a local server?

> Users with an Ubuntu Sugar would download the folder (could be tarball).
> From file://home/username/aslolite/index.html 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.
>
> 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.
>

We are working hard to clean this up. That is in fact why the ALSOv3 has
been delayed.

>
> The activity tile does contains a help button for those activities with
> Help.
>

+1


>
> Aslolite should work from an XSCE server for an XO deployment.
>
> Tony
>
> On Thursday, 24 May, 2018 11:29 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:26 PM Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:54 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tony's insistence on ASLO continues to amuse me.  Most distribution of
>>> activities now happens through bundles, tarballs, and GitHub.  ASLO is
>>> rarely used by distributors or indeed useful for anything except
>>> personal searches for broken activities.  Tony's numbers make it
>>> plain.  My own plan is to remove the link to "activities" in Browse
>>> default page; plenty of disk space these days to include all working
>>> activities in a build.
>>>
>>
>> Good to hear real world usage of aslo has entered terminal decline. When
>> will it be turned off?
>>
>
> 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.
>
> -walter
>
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