[Sugar-devel] Social Help proposal

[Sebastian Silva]

Hi,
I just wanted to point out that we (Sugar Network developers and 
deployers) are quite alive and responsive.
So far we've worked under the radar because it's been hard to engage 
the wider community around the targeted deployment (Peru) which has 
huge logistic challenges, and we developed the first version since 2011 
with Sugar Classic in mind (0.94, gtk2, gecko).

However, this year we are active and expect to shift our technologies 
into post 0.100 world. Aleksey has ported the server component to 
nodejs, keeping the same API. 
Also, he's worked on a new client done in pure js: 

It would be nice if Social Help could link to the appropriate SN 
context for each activity, from looking at your demo. The url would be:

http://network.sugarlabs.org/context/reviews/<bundleId_here>

For example:
http://network.sugarlabs.org/context/reviews/org.sugarlabs.FractionBounceActivity

This leads to the reviews section of the corresponding activity 
context. It might also be good to facilitate asking questions, posting 
ideas or problems, in the appropriate links.
It is expected that these reviews will also sync with 
activities.sugarlabs.org.

Note that with a Sugar Network plugin enabled shell, it is possible to 
click on the activity icon and thus launch the activity (it will 
download it in the background).

Sugar Network has been 2.5 years in the works now. Version 0.9 is 
beginning a slow trickle into the 850.000 users in Perú (see 
user.total stats).

One great advantage not covered by other options and crucial for Peru 
is that SN allows for offline/online operation. It is NOT the same as 
running multiple Discourse disparate servers. It was necessary to build 
a SN server/client component that is capable of synchronizing with 
other servers (and the main one on the Internet) and sharing what users 
have been doing while disconnected, receiving updates as well. 

Hope this helps ease whatever private concerns mentors have, encourages 
an open discussion around collaboration, as well as given you more 
reason to work with us. 

Your proposal has a +1 from me. 

Regards,
Sebastian


El mar, 18 de mar 2014 a las 11:44 AM, Ana Balica 
<ana.balica at gmail.com> escribió:
> Thank you Laura :)
> 
> SN seems to be a perfect match to provide Social Help for Sugar 
> students.
> Unfortunately as Prasoon mentioned earlier, mentors are concerned 
> about the community developing SN and the interest around it. 
> Discourse gets more attention, therefore is might be more reasonable 
> to use it in the long run.
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