Sounds great! Do you have an expected timeline? On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > Yes! In theory there are thousands of free books. We need people to be > > able to experience that there are books available for Sugar when they try > > Sugar. > > > > I like the idea of hooking the readers to a library. I don't know how > much > > work that is or who is available to do it now. > > > > Does anyone know where we are in terms of books on the activities portal? > > I've just initiated Library activity. The major ideas were: > > * to have central mechanism to access to shared(by other users or > activities portal) objects(not only activities) > "shared" means not shared in running activities but in terms of > "sharing books from your bookshelf" > > * fix LTPS issue - then we need all activities that should be > preinstalled on client machines packaged into rpm/deb/etc. > with new mechanism we could preinstall/upgrade bunch of > activities(Journal Objects) w/o need of packaging them > > * implementation in activity(not in Shell/Journal) because we already have > 0.82 and 0.84 platforms w/o this feature, new mechanism intended to > support > all platforms beginning from 0.82 > > * support "offline" mode when user who has internet connection could > download all objects from Activities Portal and share them for > others users > > * objectless sharing when only metadata will be shared > > * patch activities.sugarlabs.org to support this mechanism > Activities Portal will be just another sugar user with Library activity > > So, with new mechanism implemented you could put your book to Journal, > register(or so) it in Library activity and share it for other users > (including Activities Portal) > > -- > Aleksey > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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