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 (Tomeu Vizoso)

2008-06-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't aware that teachers were using non-XO laptops. If this is the You should check with Ceibal/LATU but IIRC they do have teachers with plain old laptops. Most countries have this mixed client requirement. case,

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes

2008-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[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. This version will be sugarized

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. This

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes

2008-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Embed Mozilla's editor inside an activity similarly to how we are embedding the browse in Browse. http://www.xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/comps/c_editorhtmleditor1.html This looks very promising. The only

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

2008-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
the shipping address off list and I'll ping SJ again if needed. Thanks, Greg S ** Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:38:40 +0200 From: Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes To: Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org, sugar

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-04 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Martin, You're right we are closer than I thought on first read. Thanks for the added comments. I want to minimize the scope but I see feature creep coming so we better plan for it in advance. Here are some comments on these: - understand a simple level of identity roles (provided by XS

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to minimize the scope but I see feature creep coming so we better plan for it in advance. Me too. I also want to have a solid app with a long-term maintenance plan :-) Great to hear we aren'to far away... I

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the sanity check, that's not it :-( Well, I think it is pretty close :-) What you described is roughly what I had read a few weeks (months?) ago. So I described an additional step - an xo activity to blog, that you

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-02 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Martin, Thanks a lot for the review. I copied your reply to the Uruguay edublog volunteer list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will use that list to work with end users and for internal project tracking. That said, anyone can join. It's Spanish and English and occasionally I post in Spanglish :-) Tarun

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-02 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) wrote: Hi Martin, Thanks a lot for the review. I copied your reply to the Uruguay edublog volunteer list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will use that list to work with end users and for internal project tracking. That said, anyone can join. It's

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sanity check on our high level concept. The core idea of this software is to present an easy to use interface so kids can post to blogs. Enter text, click post you are done. Yes, and that's fantastic. But if I