On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:12, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: >> Building a website for kids seems like a great idea to me. An online >> extension of the Sugar interface could foster interaction between >> Sugarized schools in a country and even beyond borders. The commitment >> of choosing a username is not major for an existing Sugar user. And, >> it could provide curious grownups with a (partial) idea of the Sugar >> experience. > > This remembers me something that has been in the back of my mind since > FOSDEM, when Patrick Sinz showed me the custom UI that they have > designed for the Gdium. > > They use gdesklets to display some widgets in the screen that relate > to some online activity of the user. Those desklets can display info > from facebook, gmail, rss feeds of all kinds, etc. The idea being (as > I understood it) that the gdium is not only the physical device on the > hands of the user, but also a medium through which sync a global, > virtual identity with the local, real identity of the user. Of course > this assumes an internet connection of some reliability. > > This may be related to a global "bulletin board", concept so often > discussed but still so far from being implemented: > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Bulletin_Boards > > What do people think? Accessing, caching and displaying some online > content inside the Sugar shell instead of only inside Browse seem like > an idea worth discussing?
Seems like a good idea. Perhaps we should start a separate thread for this discussion: building a kids website and/or making Sugar shell more web-friendly are very different problems from the problem of reaching out to parents and teachers. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
