On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:35:01AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Sounds great! Do you have an expected timeline?
so, at the end http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Library#Roadmap > > 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 -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep