Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan (Tarun Pondicherry)

2008-06-11 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Greg, > - On full featured formatting and options vs. simple. I thought the comments referred to the admin and teacher pages. The editor will be simple, since they can just pick the default tinyMCE editor if they want something else. I'm not going to add something and hide it. Only if I'm

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan (Tarun Pondicherry)

2008-06-10 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi All, Thanks for the comments and great progress! I'll try to respond to all open items in one pass. - On group edit. Thanks to Alex for the link and sanity check on collaboration support in Browse. I think we should let it go for this first implementation. When Browse does collaborate at OS/s

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-10 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Yama, > Could we have both? > Sure, I can do that easily if Greg agrees. I'll just hide the options from the stylesheet and create a js function to show them (not a permanent implementation but atleast we can get feedback during the beta). Tarun __

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

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Yama Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could we have both? Well, it's just more work. If you get into programming, we can do more ;-) We are just prioritising which one to do *first*. If we had abundance of time and programmers, you'd get both and a shiny new

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-09 Thread Yama Ploskonka
> [ from another email now ... ] > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Tarun Pondicherry > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, you can't tell what options to remove until you get real users >>> using it, and you spot which options they don't use ;-) >> Thats true, but I'm also concerned we might

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Alexander Dupuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Smith wrote: >> For starters, there's no group edit needed. They can share "browse" if >> they want to edit concurrently. I was thinking of just "post" or "start >> over" as the first pass. >> > > Like a lot of people

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Tarun Pondicherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aside from authentication, I think I can get a basic usable version working > on Greg's schedule. Do you foresee some problems that I haven't thought of? No problems. Sounds reasonable. >> A non-XS-based installation

[Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-09 Thread Alexander Dupuy
Greg Smith wrote: > For starters, there's no group edit needed. They can share "browse" if > they want to edit concurrently. I was thinking of just "post" or "start > over" as the first pass. > Like a lot of people, Greg over-estimates the level of collaboration possible in shared Sugar activi

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-09 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
-Original Message- From: Tarun Pondicherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:15 AM To: Martin Langhoff; Greg Smith (gregmsmi) Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org; marcel r Subject: Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan Hi Martin, Greg, This is my current propose

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-09 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Martin, Greg, This is my current proposed plan of action. If both of you approve, I will push ahead with coding as well as dividing into concrete subtasks that other developers can help with. We will modify Moodle blog or ou blog for EduBlog. (Only one area of work depends on the blog modul

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-08 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Martin, > Well, you can't tell what options to remove until you get real users > using it, and you spot which options they don't use ;-) > Thats true, but I'm also concerned we might scare them away! I'd rather make it simple for the test, and then add the options back in as needed. I bel

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-08 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Martin, Thanks for clearing up how set up blogs! > Sounds reasonable - even if we had everything "done" now, it would be > impossible to ensure it is deployed on your schedule. > Aside from authentication, I think I can get a basic usable version working on Greg's schedule. Do you foresee

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Tarun Pondicherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've finally figured out how to get ou blog working. Cool. > This we'd have to do with any design approach, so its no problem doing this > within the OU Blog Module. But, I don't think its enough for early > deploymen

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My top concern with requiring Moodle for August delivery is that no one > has Moodle yet. Do you know of any plan to install Moodle in > Ceibal/Uruguay? Nothing specific. CC'ing Emiliano, who might know a bit more.

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-07 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Martin, I've finally figured out how to get ou blog working. Martin Langhoff wrote: > - add a "forward blog post" feature to moodle's blog (there, you are > ready for early deployments) > This we'd have to do with any design approach, so its no problem doing this within the OU Blog Module

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-06 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
06, 2008 10:42 AM To: Greg Smith (gregmsmi) Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan Hi Greg! On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Wad and Martin for uncovering the OS problem! Yes

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-06 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Martin Langhoff wrote: Hi Greg! On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks to Wad and Martin for uncovering the OS problem! Yes - that's a pretty important thing. And leads into a second thing that is tricky - if you want Edublog to work on

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Greg! On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Wad and Martin for uncovering the OS problem! Yes - that's a pretty important thing. And leads into a second thing that is tricky - if you want Edublog to work on both infrastructures (Ceibal's s

[Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan

2008-06-06 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi All, After a game of tag with my kids, my head cleared and I thought about the project again. Thanks to Wad and Martin for uncovering the OS problem! Lesson learned: We have teachers, teacher trainers and programmers in Uruguay interested and international volunteers ready to code. I miss