Re: [Server-devel] tiny_mce Sugar theme

2008-09-30 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Martin, Nothing else interesting I can think of, mostly working on cleaning up and organizing, and rebasing of off XS Moodle. And of course, making clean commits this time =). Thanks, Tarun Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Server-devel] tiny_mce Sugar theme

2008-09-28 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Martin, Most of it is self contained in lib/editor/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/sugar/. Moodle needs to be hacked a bit to get the image upload to work with it (avoid the Moodle file dialog). Basically, there needs to be an additional file upload script that just uploads the image and

Re: [Server-devel] Looking at edublog moodle code --

2008-09-21 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Martin, You're right, trying to change to tinyMCE in Moodle itself by porting relevant portions of Mauno's modifications is a large job. However, there were some versions I came across that simply stick tinyMCE into the theme files. I was planning on hacking the XO theme to make it use

Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

2008-08-14 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Paravane, eightbar specialist *Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]* 08/14/2008 09:20 AM To Pablo Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Pearson/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], marcel r [EMAIL PROTECTED], Said Ramirez

Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

2008-08-13 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
at 5:34 AM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, *Creating a new blog * * The login page isn't in spanish The UI can be switched to Spanish easily, this will be done in the next update after we get abiword working

Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

2008-08-13 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
13, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pablo, The version downloadable from: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog_Instructions under the heading For Those with Build 656 has the new homepage

Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

2008-08-13 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
are doing! See comments below. Saludos, Pablo Flores On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pablo

Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

2008-08-13 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
the administration is not working from the XO... Saludos, Pablo Flores On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pablo, The version downloadable from: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog_Instructions under the heading

[Server-devel] EduBlog: Status

2008-08-11 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi team, Good news! Marcel was able to install abiword 2.6.3 from the Fedora 9 repository and all the features of EduBlog are decently working. I've recreated the demo student and teacher accounts and linked it to uruguay-xo-test. I'll update the wiki with the exact links needed to go

[Server-devel] EduBlog: Use Cases

2008-08-06 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi, I uploaded a couple of use cases on the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog_Instructions#Use_Cases So far, things look to be working well locally and it gives a flavor of the new simplified UI. Still need to do final testing of the Write Upload. Comments are welcome, but please pardon

Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

2008-08-06 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Pablo, * I'm not sure how to manage users with EduBlog I think we should start a wiki page to start documenting (and discussing it). Volunteers? :-) I'm not sure the best way either. There are many many options. I thought the easiest

Re: [Server-devel] DNS Connectivity Issues

2008-08-04 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Glen, Is there an IP I can use to ssh to the server while the dns issues are resolved? Thanks, Tarun Glen Roberts wrote: Today just after noon (edt) our Qwest internet connection (not the one the EDU server is on) went down. I was in the middle of upgrading the DNS servers so it

Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

2008-07-31 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, FYI presentation will be in 1CC at 12:30 - 1:30 US ET Friday so please don't mess with the server for that hour. We won't touch the server until after the demo is all done. Especially since this abiword stuff affects the whole server and is therefore potentially dangerous. Send

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Looking for comments/bugs

2008-07-23 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Tomeu, not sure to understand why you need to convert Write entries to html, but abiword has good formatting capabilities and is run in headless servers routinely. We need to convert it to html to upload the content to Blogger.com or OU Blog. Thanks for the info that abiword is run on

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Looking for comments/bugs

2008-07-23 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, 4 - pick what you created from the journal/file picker and upload it to the blog. This does not work yet. All available info made it seem like copy and paste would work and odt files and xhtml generation would work, but none of it actually does =(. It will be at least a couple days

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Looking for comments/bugs

2008-07-23 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg - just close write - choose Keep then one of RTF, TXT or HTML RTF and HTML don't save images properly. (RTF is not even real RTF its still abw). are you saying that neither of those types of journal entries can be inserted in to the EduBlog GUI? HTML would be easily done, but the

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle administration

2008-07-16 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
! Your help is much appreciated! Tarun Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to pull from git (where I uploaded the theme), but it is giving me an error. I'd prefer not to use ftp since it will make it very hard to know

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Issue Posting to Blogger from Venango - Resolved!

2008-07-16 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Tony, This seems to have done the trick! I am able to connect and post to Blogger. Thanks for the great support! I think only php-xmlrpc was installed before. It is a different package from php-xml. Thanks, Tarun Tony Pearson wrote: Tarun, I thought I had php-xml already, but it

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Image upload issue

2008-07-15 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
. Thanks, Greg S Tarun Pondicherry wrote: Hi Greg, Martin pointed out to me that permissions in browse won't let me add a paste button. And I haven't added code to handle pasting images yet. What is the problem in 656? Does the Journal even show up? I have a newer version of the mockup

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle administration

2008-07-14 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi guys, I uploaded a theme I found that I think works much better for the XO and regular browsers as well. I'd like to use this as the base and customize it further to make it look like the mock up pages. Tony, you are right that there are too many install screens. An easier install and

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Beta Server

2008-07-14 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi, It looks like I had deleted the default theme from the repository (which isn't the theme named standard =/). I'm adding it to the list of install issues I need to fix. Thanks for finding the bug! Thanks, Tarun Myles Carrick wrote: Tony, re item 2: the Moodle site is not set up

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Teacher Review Options

2008-07-12 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, That was my intention originally but I'm not sure its critical at this stage. I think its all right if the teacher can choose from many available blogs and just show one or two to the kids at a time. There is a select box at the top that shows all the different blogs (Comes with

[Server-devel] Moodle: File upload question

2008-07-12 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Martin, I posted this question on the Moodle forums a while ago, but got no response. I was thinking you might know the answer. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=100822#p445265 == Hi, I'm trying to integrate a customized tinyMCE editor into

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Teacher Review Options

2008-07-12 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, I think its OK if you refresh and change the screen if a kid changes which blog he wants to send the content to. My only concern is if they write the blog post then clik on something that changes the page and they lose all their work. We want to avoid them losing what they type

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Question

2008-07-12 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, Let me throw out a few more questions/ideas for you. These are kind of stretch goals so let's get the previously defined stuff done first. 1 - Can we support a work flow like this: - Teacher (Senora Garcia) configures page to frog blog and asks kids to post to that. - Pablo

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Teacher Review Options

2008-07-10 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, Do the kids need to choose between different external blogs? So far, I've seen this as one local blog (OU Blog course1blog) tied to one remote blog (Blogger uruguay-xo-test). Will course1blog need the option to post to more than one remoteblog at the same time and let kids select

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Requesting input on design of Preview and Remote Blog Admin Pages

2008-07-07 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, So far I have the admin page set up in moodle and working with OU Blog. Students can create a post and post it locally. Teachers can then send that post to Blogger.com. I still need to add image support and the option for students to send the blog directly to a remote blog. There

[Server-devel] EduBlog: Requesting input on design of Preview and Remote Blog Admin Pages

2008-07-02 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, Martin, Marcel, With the preview feature, is it better to do it all on the client side (clicking preview brings up a Browse compatible popup with the post) or push the blog out to the ou blog db but set the permissions so that only the creator can see it? (May only be possible for

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog v0.1 Available for Comment! (Martin Langhoff)

2008-06-19 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, I talked with Martin, and I think ou blog will be better for us since it runs as an activity. This already makes it capable of having multiple blogs for each course / teacher. It'll be easier to integrate with a scheme like Yama had set up than the standard blog. Thanks, Tarun I

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog - How do I select tinyMCE in moodle?

2008-06-18 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering, is the decision to switch to tinyMCE in Moodle final? Or at least for the Moodle that will be on the XS? I wouldn't want to spend time modding it only to find out I have to mod something else

Re: [Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server

2008-06-14 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Tarun, I have no idea what git is. Is it something I can install using yum? If not, please provide me location for Red Hat rpm file for it, or other instructions Hi, I think its yum install git-core. Thanks, Tarun ___ Server-devel mailing

Re: [Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server

2008-06-13 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Tony, Just a thought, could you install git on the server? It would make it easier to just run a script rather than doing stuff manually and uploading with ftp. Thanks, Tarun ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-10 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, 2 - I don't like the risk in the group edit and teacher review Teacher review should not be a problem to do in a few days, but group edit involves implementing things that I don't think Moodle blog/ ou blog currently support, so it will take longer. The only way around that is if we

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (Tomeu Vizoso)

2008-06-06 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
I wasn't aware that teachers were using non-XO laptops. If this is the case, then it makes much more sense to tweak an existing editor, probably the one in oublog as you mentioned. Where can I get my hands on the code for Moodle that runs on the XS? (I'm still trying to get a handle on

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes

2008-06-05 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: [ccing sugar] Hi, just some comments: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Provide a client side Browse based WYSIWYG editor that does what the editor in Moodle Blog does for students to easily create and edit posts