Re: [IAEP] Sugar future
On 12.04.2013, at 15:39, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: O.K. So... now it is time to divide and conquer! Is it? That is... divide the work up into doable little projects and conquer the huge task of getting Sugar Activities onto Android and possibly other platforms. IMHO the individual activities are *not* what makes Sugar such a compelling proposition. Sure, having some of them as apps on other platforms would be nice. But isn't collaborating and sharing at the heart of Sugar? The Journal as central UI? The effortless discovery of your peers in the neighborhood view? Etc? *That* experience would have to be ported to another platform first, and then the activities can follow. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of random apps, of which there are plenty already in the various app stores. - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar future
Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de writes: That is... divide the work up into doable little projects and conquer the huge task of getting Sugar Activities onto Android and possibly other platforms. IMHO the individual activities are *not* what makes Sugar such a compelling proposition. Sure, having some of them as apps on other platforms would be nice. But isn't collaborating and sharing at the heart of Sugar? The Journal as central UI? The effortless discovery of your peers in the neighborhood view? Etc? *That* experience would have to be ported to another platform first, and then the activities can follow. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of random apps, of which there are plenty already in the various app stores. Bit +1. Android seems a distraction so far. Let's built on what Sugar differs: great UI ideas. -- Bastien ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar future
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 03:48:00PM -0700, Bert Freudenberg wrote: [...] the individual activities are *not* what makes Sugar such a compelling proposition. Sure, having some of them as apps on other platforms would be nice. But isn't collaborating and sharing at the heart of Sugar? The Journal as central UI? The effortless discovery of your peers in the neighborhood view? Etc? *That* experience would have to be ported to another platform first, and then the activities can follow. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of random apps, of which there are plenty already in the various app stores. This. Bert has nailed the fact that Sugar is more than the sum of its parts, because the parts are coherent. We can still port individual activities. But having the sugar shell running on android is a major step up in what a collection of coherently-designed activities provide. Noone's doing that work, AFAIK. I bet someone (cscott?) has already investigated its feasibility, though... - Bert - Martin pgpZuogyEszCw.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
