[Sugar-devel] New genealogic activity for Sugar

[Lionel Laské]

@Walter and @Gonzalo, thank for your encouragement !

 

> Family tree construction is a fairly common project in some school
settings (along with other family history projects, e.g. interview your
grandparents 

>about what life was like when they were your age, etc.) so I think that
this is a wonderful idea for a Sugar Activity.

 

@Chris, you’re right. Indeed, the idea of this activity come from Bastien
Guerry when it worked with teachers to prepare the first Haïti deployment.

 

> I may take a shot at entering my own family geneology (which has been
traced back to the mid-1600's on my mother's side.) as a test case :-)

 

Can’t wait to see that :-)  In my initial brainstorm I thought to support
the “standard” GEDCOM format. However, I want to keep the activity very
simple, not to compete with existing genealogic software. 

 

> One small note about the upload to ASLO, I think something was not
configured correctly.

 

You’re right, I miss something. Thanks @Gonzalo to fix it.

 

> As you seek to refine Roots in later versions, I would very much
appreciate it if you would consider working on internationalization

 

It’s already the case. The activity is wrote in English but have already a
localization file in French. So, there is a POT file and a first fr.po file
here: http://git.sugarlabs.org/roots/master/trees/master/po 

 

One more thing: it’s the first activity I develop with Python/PyGTK and I
must say that it’s really a pleasure to do it. It’s great to see how most
things are easy to do in Sugar and how we could benefit from the work done
on existing activity (Labyrinth, A toi de jouer, Paint, Memory for me - to
name a few).

 

Note also than I’m a Windows developer. So I wrote a “Sugar dummy library”
to allow developing/debugging the activity on PyGTK Windows (without
Sugar
). It’s a very partial work but It could interest some other Windows
developers
(http://git.sugarlabs.org/roots/master/blobs/master/sugardummy.py).

 

                Lionel.

 

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