[Sugar-devel] Zooming User Interface

2014-03-01 Thread Christian Stroetmann
Aloha Since many years now I am looking at Sugar and the underlying basic software technologies. Besides this, I am also interested in the specific field of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). In this relation, I would like to present a concept that is an extension of the general GUI approach

Re: [Sugar-devel] Zooming User Interface

2014-03-01 Thread Sam Parkinson
Totally forgot to reply all xD On Mar 1, 2014 9:10 PM, Sam Parkinson sam.parkins...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In sugar we currently have 'the views'. I think the vid on our site shows that. The whole zui thing does look cool, but besides prezi I cannot see any clear use cases in edu tech. What

Re: [Sugar-devel] Zooming User Interface

2014-03-01 Thread Christian Stroetmann
Hi Sam Basically, I find this ZUI concept as attractive as the multi-touchscreen and the mind mapping approach. Also, the foundational hierachical structure of Sugar with the views you mentioned fits perfectly with a ZUI. The problem I have seen is that the screen gets more and more crowded

Re: [Sugar-devel] Zooming User Interface

2014-03-01 Thread Christian Stroetmann
Hi again I forget to say something to your question related with the educational technology. Firstly, I found the following statements on the webpage What is Sugar? in the section About the Sugar Learning Platform of Sugar ([1]) that says: It is easy to approach and yet it doesn't put an

Re: [Sugar-devel] Zooming User Interface

2014-03-01 Thread Christian Stroetmann
Hi again And here is a collaborative story authoring tool for children called KidPad ([1]) based on ZUI and related with Pad++. It is based on Jazz respectively Piccolo ([2]; unmantained website), which has as successor Piccolo2 ([3]; use this website for more software technical

[Sugar-devel] One for Grandma and Grandpa

2014-03-01 Thread Christian Stroetmann
Aloha We are pleased to inform the community about our last step related with the Sugar learning platform after we connected Sugar with the Firefox OS as Sugarfox. Today we came back to a relatively old concept developed in our OntoLab which is based on the observations that everything a

[Sugar-devel] SocialCalc project backgrounder

2014-03-01 Thread Manusheel Gupta
Hi Puneet, Wish to share the SocialCalc project details [1] with you and Lionel. It would be wonderful to get SocialCalc as an activity using the framework developed by Lionel and Suraj. We used hulahop framework, which utilized PyXPCOM bindings. This is how SocialCalc moved data between the

Re: [Sugar-devel] SocialCalc project backgrounder

2014-03-01 Thread Puneet Kaur
Thanks, will look into this Regards, Puneet On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Puneet, Wish to share the SocialCalc project details [1] with you and Lionel. It would be wonderful to get SocialCalc as an activity using the framework developed by

Re: [Sugar-devel] One for Grandma and Grandpa

2014-03-01 Thread Paul Fox
christian wrote: Aloha We are pleased to inform the community about our last step related with the Sugar learning platform after we connected Sugar with the Firefox OS as Sugarfox. Today we came back to a relatively old concept developed in our OntoLab which is based on the

Re: [Sugar-devel] One for Grandma and Grandpa

2014-03-01 Thread Christian Stroetmann
Hi Paul Yes indeed we have created a new concept that is basically the transformation of the Sugar learning environment developed solely for very young children to an operating system environment for older persons. For sure, the main focus on the side of the activities is not that a grandma

Re: [Sugar-devel] One for Grandma and Grandpa

2014-03-01 Thread Paul Fox
christian wrote: Hi Paul Yes indeed we have created a new concept that is basically the transformation of the Sugar learning environment developed solely for very young children to an operating system environment for older persons. For sure, the main focus on the side of the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Best time format for logging?

2014-03-01 Thread Manuel Quiñones
2014-02-28 20:30 GMT-03:00 James Cameron qu...@laptop.org: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 02:39:41PM -0300, Manuel Quiñones wrote: date +%s.%N 1393609027.074597846 Yes, this is adequate, though sometimes the fractional value can be imprecise as it depends on many factors. For response times, it

Re: [Sugar-devel] One for Grandma and Grandpa

2014-03-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Christian Stroetmann stroetm...@ontolab.com wrote: Yes indeed we have created a new concept that is basically the transformation of the Sugar learning environment developed solely for very If all you have is a concept, and you are trying to register trademarks

[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Design Meeting, Wednesday 5th, 13:00 UTC

2014-03-01 Thread Manuel Quiñones
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Zooming User Interface

2014-03-01 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Hi Christian, Zoom metaphor was in Sugar from day one [1] Maybe you can make a concrete feature proposal to help us understand what are you proposing? You can read about our Features policy [2] and see how the Features are proposed, like in this example [3] More examples here [4] and here [5]