On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 19:47, Gary C Martin<[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 Jul 2009, at 17:15, Mel Chua wrote: > >> * I don't know what big developments are likely to hit in the near >> future, but if the "use Activities online, in browsers!" thing works, >> then we have a *huge* winner to demo. > > Just wanted to ping on this item. I don't see "Activities online, in > browsers!" as something achievable in other than some special Activity > cases (EToys Activity could do it if we filtch their Java compiler, > TurtleArt could do it if we build a JavaScript player for it, Colors > playback could be done similarly; others could support viewing, Write, > Paint, Labyrinth, Calculate, Chat, etc). > > I think what would be more viable, sort to mid term, would be a > regular website design that used a Sugar like Journal metaphor to > display/search entries uploaded by users (Aleksey has a number of > features that may overlap quite nicely, here's one > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Server_Objects_Sharing) > . The Journal uploads/publish would all have previews so at the very > least folks would get to see a reasonable detail view (along with all > the meta-data) while browsing. Some standard formats could allow > direct viewing of material online (images, pdfs, text documents, > movies, audio), along with any special players that may be possible > (Etoys Java playback, or a TurtleArt javascript player).
That's what the Sugar Labs DC folks are proposing, btw: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-July/007315.html And I also agree it will be a huge step forward. Regards, Tomeu > Regards, > --Gary > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
