> > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:03:11 -0500 > From: Walter Bender <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar Online (was Re: > http://www-testing.sugarlabs.org/) > To: Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> > Cc: IAEP SugarLabs <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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 > > > ------------------------------ >
Great idea. Manu
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