Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
Walter Sir, Thank You very much for accepting to mentor our team on the proposed areas. But there seems to be some problem regarding participation of a team in the Program. It looks like, they only allow individuals to participate. So, we are planning to split the project into two parts: 1. Web browser development. 2. Localization and Porting of Sugar 0.90 to Ubuntu. We are looking for a third project, and would be great to suggest one It would be very helpful if we could have a discussion on this on irc, as soon as possible suiting Indian time. Thanking You. Sincerely, Dipankar On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: It was a disappointment that we didn't get direct sponsorship for GSoC this year, but working with OSPO may be just the ticket!! Happy to be the mentor on these projects. Note that you should mention that there is a on-going webkit effort for Ubuntu but that Chromium would give us more flexibility and a broader offering. regards. -walter On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Hello Walter Sir, I Dipankar Patro, Research Engineer, SEETA, would like to represent my team from SEETA, comprising of Neeraj Gupta, Ishan Bansal, Mukul Gupta with the following proposal of a project. The team members worked in the summer of 2010 for Ubuntu Sugar Remix, (with Manusheel Gupta, SEETA) and also made some successful patch submissions which eventually got pushed in the main repository. The reports regarding our work are published here: http://opensource.seeta.in/task_reports We all want to apply for the GSOC under GOOGLE OSPO: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/ospo We would like to work on the following areas related to Sugar, and would highly appreciate if you could mentor us. We will be presenting the same areas as below for GSOC. The following are proposed areas: 1. Developing a faster, secure and customizable browser activity for Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Since Ubuntu Sugar Remix does not have a stable 'Browse' activity due to the hulahop package problem, we aim to develop a new browser activity implementing Google Chrominum base and functionality making the browser faster, secure and customizable. The same activity can be used for XO where the performance is crucial given the hardware specifications it has. 2. Successful porting of Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu along with upgrading the existing activities. Sugar is rapidly developing and we feel the need to be same with the Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Porting Sugar 0.90 to USR will be the first step in providing the latest compatible version of Sugar to Ubuntu Users. 3. Localisation in India If Sugar needs to be spread across in India, we feel the need of incorporating regional languages into it. This would include activities and applications available in regional languages. A new reason why Sugar can be used in Classrooms, even in Sub-Urban areas. For the above, we have planned the following structure of working and road map: All members have experience of working on the Sugar back-end (where the code needs to be written or modified). I have some knowledge of networking, and would like continue to work on the same field for Sugar. Mukul and Ishan are experienced with working on activities. Ishan specially worked with Gtk end of activities, where as Mukul worked on the coding portion. As Neeraj has experience in the field of localization and has also worked on it, he will be the one specially working on the localization. For road map please visit this page: http://opensource.seeta.in/roadmap As you have incomparable experience in activity development on Sugar, we are seeking for your expert guidance on the whole browser activity development, which will definitely lead us to an outstanding achievement, and also help Sugar grow and spread more rapidly. Thank You for taking out time for us. Regards, Dipankar Patro, dipan...@seeta.in Neeraj Gupta, nee...@seeta.in Ishan Bansal, is...@seeta.in Mukul Gupta, mu...@seeta.in -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Walter Sir, Thank You very much for accepting to mentor our team on the proposed areas. But there seems to be some problem regarding participation of a team in the Program. It looks like, they only allow individuals to participate. So, we are planning to split the project into two parts: 1. Web browser development. 2. Localization and Porting of Sugar 0.90 to Ubuntu. Why not split these into two projects? -walter We are looking for a third project, and would be great to suggest one It would be very helpful if we could have a discussion on this on irc, as soon as possible suiting Indian time. Thanking You. Sincerely, Dipankar On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: It was a disappointment that we didn't get direct sponsorship for GSoC this year, but working with OSPO may be just the ticket!! Happy to be the mentor on these projects. Note that you should mention that there is a on-going webkit effort for Ubuntu but that Chromium would give us more flexibility and a broader offering. regards. -walter On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Hello Walter Sir, I Dipankar Patro, Research Engineer, SEETA, would like to represent my team from SEETA, comprising of Neeraj Gupta, Ishan Bansal, Mukul Gupta with the following proposal of a project. The team members worked in the summer of 2010 for Ubuntu Sugar Remix, (with Manusheel Gupta, SEETA) and also made some successful patch submissions which eventually got pushed in the main repository. The reports regarding our work are published here: http://opensource.seeta.in/task_reports We all want to apply for the GSOC under GOOGLE OSPO: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/ospo We would like to work on the following areas related to Sugar, and would highly appreciate if you could mentor us. We will be presenting the same areas as below for GSOC. The following are proposed areas: 1. Developing a faster, secure and customizable browser activity for Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Since Ubuntu Sugar Remix does not have a stable 'Browse' activity due to the hulahop package problem, we aim to develop a new browser activity implementing Google Chrominum base and functionality making the browser faster, secure and customizable. The same activity can be used for XO where the performance is crucial given the hardware specifications it has. 2. Successful porting of Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu along with upgrading the existing activities. Sugar is rapidly developing and we feel the need to be same with the Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Porting Sugar 0.90 to USR will be the first step in providing the latest compatible version of Sugar to Ubuntu Users. 3. Localisation in India If Sugar needs to be spread across in India, we feel the need of incorporating regional languages into it. This would include activities and applications available in regional languages. A new reason why Sugar can be used in Classrooms, even in Sub-Urban areas. For the above, we have planned the following structure of working and road map: All members have experience of working on the Sugar back-end (where the code needs to be written or modified). I have some knowledge of networking, and would like continue to work on the same field for Sugar. Mukul and Ishan are experienced with working on activities. Ishan specially worked with Gtk end of activities, where as Mukul worked on the coding portion. As Neeraj has experience in the field of localization and has also worked on it, he will be the one specially working on the localization. For road map please visit this page: http://opensource.seeta.in/roadmap As you have incomparable experience in activity development on Sugar, we are seeking for your expert guidance on the whole browser activity development, which will definitely lead us to an outstanding achievement, and also help Sugar grow and spread more rapidly. Thank You for taking out time for us. Regards, Dipankar Patro, dipan...@seeta.in Neeraj Gupta, nee...@seeta.in Ishan Bansal, is...@seeta.in Mukul Gupta, mu...@seeta.in -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
Walter Sir, Sorry I was not clear in my previous mail. The two projects that we will be sending proposal for: - Web browser development for Sugar on Chromium base. - Localization and Porting Sugar 0.90 packages. On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Walter Sir, Thank You very much for accepting to mentor our team on the proposed areas. But there seems to be some problem regarding participation of a team in the Program. It looks like, they only allow individuals to participate. So, we are planning to split the project into two parts: 1. Web browser development. 2. Localization and Porting of Sugar 0.90 to Ubuntu. Why not split these into two projects? -walter We are looking for a third project, and would be great to suggest one It would be very helpful if we could have a discussion on this on irc, as soon as possible suiting Indian time. Thanking You. Sincerely, Dipankar On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: It was a disappointment that we didn't get direct sponsorship for GSoC this year, but working with OSPO may be just the ticket!! Happy to be the mentor on these projects. Note that you should mention that there is a on-going webkit effort for Ubuntu but that Chromium would give us more flexibility and a broader offering. regards. -walter On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Hello Walter Sir, I Dipankar Patro, Research Engineer, SEETA, would like to represent my team from SEETA, comprising of Neeraj Gupta, Ishan Bansal, Mukul Gupta with the following proposal of a project. The team members worked in the summer of 2010 for Ubuntu Sugar Remix, (with Manusheel Gupta, SEETA) and also made some successful patch submissions which eventually got pushed in the main repository. The reports regarding our work are published here: http://opensource.seeta.in/task_reports We all want to apply for the GSOC under GOOGLE OSPO: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/ospo We would like to work on the following areas related to Sugar, and would highly appreciate if you could mentor us. We will be presenting the same areas as below for GSOC. The following are proposed areas: 1. Developing a faster, secure and customizable browser activity for Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Since Ubuntu Sugar Remix does not have a stable 'Browse' activity due to the hulahop package problem, we aim to develop a new browser activity implementing Google Chrominum base and functionality making the browser faster, secure and customizable. The same activity can be used for XO where the performance is crucial given the hardware specifications it has. 2. Successful porting of Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu along with upgrading the existing activities. Sugar is rapidly developing and we feel the need to be same with the Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Porting Sugar 0.90 to USR will be the first step in providing the latest compatible version of Sugar to Ubuntu Users. 3. Localisation in India If Sugar needs to be spread across in India, we feel the need of incorporating regional languages into it. This would include activities and applications available in regional languages. A new reason why Sugar can be used in Classrooms, even in Sub-Urban areas. For the above, we have planned the following structure of working and road map: All members have experience of working on the Sugar back-end (where the code needs to be written or modified). I have some knowledge of networking, and would like continue to work on the same field for Sugar. Mukul and Ishan are experienced with working on activities. Ishan specially worked with Gtk end of activities, where as Mukul worked on the coding portion. As Neeraj has experience in the field of localization and has also worked on it, he will be the one specially working on the localization. For road map please visit this page: http://opensource.seeta.in/roadmap As you have incomparable experience in activity development on Sugar, we are seeking for your expert guidance on the whole browser activity development, which will definitely lead us to an outstanding achievement, and also help Sugar grow and spread more rapidly. Thank You for taking out time for us. Regards, Dipankar Patro, dipan...@seeta.in Neeraj Gupta, nee...@seeta.in Ishan Bansal, is...@seeta.in Mukul Gupta, mu...@seeta.in -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
Hello, I am Ganesh Gajare from Homi Bhabha Centre for Science education, Mumbai, India. On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Walter Sir, Thank You very much for accepting to mentor our team on the proposed areas. But there seems to be some problem regarding participation of a team in the Program. It looks like, they only allow individuals to participate. So, we are planning to split the project into two parts: 1. Web browser development. 2. Localization and Porting of Sugar 0.90 to Ubuntu. We are working on sugar developement, providing sugar platform in various schools of maharashtra for education. Sugar Localization project is one interest of mine. I am contributing to Sugar platform translation in Marathi. I would like to be a part of it. Also, there are some of students who want to support for localization as a Voluntary work. Can we discuss about this. Can we set a modules for them and tell them to submit their tranlations to sugarlabs. Why not split these into two projects? -walter We are looking for a third project, and would be great to suggest one It would be very helpful if we could have a discussion on this on irc, as soon as possible suiting Indian time. Thanking You. Sincerely, Dipankar On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: It was a disappointment that we didn't get direct sponsorship for GSoC this year, but working with OSPO may be just the ticket!! Happy to be the mentor on these projects. Note that you should mention that there is a on-going webkit effort for Ubuntu but that Chromium would give us more flexibility and a broader offering. regards. -walter On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Hello Walter Sir, I Dipankar Patro, Research Engineer, SEETA, would like to represent my team from SEETA, comprising of Neeraj Gupta, Ishan Bansal, Mukul Gupta with the following proposal of a project. The team members worked in the summer of 2010 for Ubuntu Sugar Remix, (with Manusheel Gupta, SEETA) and also made some successful patch submissions which eventually got pushed in the main repository. The reports regarding our work are published here: http://opensource.seeta.in/task_reports We all want to apply for the GSOC under GOOGLE OSPO: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/ospo We would like to work on the following areas related to Sugar, and would highly appreciate if you could mentor us. We will be presenting the same areas as below for GSOC. The following are proposed areas: 1. Developing a faster, secure and customizable browser activity for Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Since Ubuntu Sugar Remix does not have a stable 'Browse' activity due to the hulahop package problem, we aim to develop a new browser activity implementing Google Chrominum base and functionality making the browser faster, secure and customizable. The same activity can be used for XO where the performance is crucial given the hardware specifications it has. 2. Successful porting of Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu along with upgrading the existing activities. Sugar is rapidly developing and we feel the need to be same with the Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Porting Sugar 0.90 to USR will be the first step in providing the latest compatible version of Sugar to Ubuntu Users. 3. Localisation in India If Sugar needs to be spread across in India, we feel the need of incorporating regional languages into it. This would include activities and applications available in regional languages. A new reason why Sugar can be used in Classrooms, even in Sub-Urban areas. For the above, we have planned the following structure of working and road map: All members have experience of working on the Sugar back-end (where the code needs to be written or modified). I have some knowledge of networking, and would like continue to work on the same field for Sugar. Mukul and Ishan are experienced with working on activities. Ishan specially worked with Gtk end of activities, where as Mukul worked on the coding portion. As Neeraj has experience in the field of localization and has also worked on it, he will be the one specially working on the localization. For road map please visit this page: http://opensource.seeta.in/roadmap As you have incomparable experience in activity development on Sugar, we are seeking for your expert guidance on the whole browser activity development, which will definitely lead us to an outstanding achievement, and also help Sugar grow and spread more rapidly. Thank You for taking out time for us. Regards, Dipankar Patro, dipan...@seeta.in Neeraj Gupta,
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Walter Sir, Sorry I was not clear in my previous mail. The two projects that we will be sending proposal for: - Web browser development for Sugar on Chromium base. - Localization and Porting Sugar 0.90 packages. I am the one who was not clear. It seems that Localization and Porting are two different projects. -walter On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Walter Sir, Thank You very much for accepting to mentor our team on the proposed areas. But there seems to be some problem regarding participation of a team in the Program. It looks like, they only allow individuals to participate. So, we are planning to split the project into two parts: 1. Web browser development. 2. Localization and Porting of Sugar 0.90 to Ubuntu. Why not split these into two projects? -walter We are looking for a third project, and would be great to suggest one It would be very helpful if we could have a discussion on this on irc, as soon as possible suiting Indian time. Thanking You. Sincerely, Dipankar On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: It was a disappointment that we didn't get direct sponsorship for GSoC this year, but working with OSPO may be just the ticket!! Happy to be the mentor on these projects. Note that you should mention that there is a on-going webkit effort for Ubuntu but that Chromium would give us more flexibility and a broader offering. regards. -walter On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Hello Walter Sir, I Dipankar Patro, Research Engineer, SEETA, would like to represent my team from SEETA, comprising of Neeraj Gupta, Ishan Bansal, Mukul Gupta with the following proposal of a project. The team members worked in the summer of 2010 for Ubuntu Sugar Remix, (with Manusheel Gupta, SEETA) and also made some successful patch submissions which eventually got pushed in the main repository. The reports regarding our work are published here: http://opensource.seeta.in/task_reports We all want to apply for the GSOC under GOOGLE OSPO: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/ospo We would like to work on the following areas related to Sugar, and would highly appreciate if you could mentor us. We will be presenting the same areas as below for GSOC. The following are proposed areas: 1. Developing a faster, secure and customizable browser activity for Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Since Ubuntu Sugar Remix does not have a stable 'Browse' activity due to the hulahop package problem, we aim to develop a new browser activity implementing Google Chrominum base and functionality making the browser faster, secure and customizable. The same activity can be used for XO where the performance is crucial given the hardware specifications it has. 2. Successful porting of Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu along with upgrading the existing activities. Sugar is rapidly developing and we feel the need to be same with the Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Porting Sugar 0.90 to USR will be the first step in providing the latest compatible version of Sugar to Ubuntu Users. 3. Localisation in India If Sugar needs to be spread across in India, we feel the need of incorporating regional languages into it. This would include activities and applications available in regional languages. A new reason why Sugar can be used in Classrooms, even in Sub-Urban areas. For the above, we have planned the following structure of working and road map: All members have experience of working on the Sugar back-end (where the code needs to be written or modified). I have some knowledge of networking, and would like continue to work on the same field for Sugar. Mukul and Ishan are experienced with working on activities. Ishan specially worked with Gtk end of activities, where as Mukul worked on the coding portion. As Neeraj has experience in the field of localization and has also worked on it, he will be the one specially working on the localization. For road map please visit this page: http://opensource.seeta.in/roadmap As you have incomparable experience in activity development on Sugar, we are seeking for your expert guidance on the whole browser activity development, which will definitely lead us to an outstanding achievement, and also help Sugar grow and spread more rapidly. Thank You for taking out time for us. Regards, Dipankar Patro, dipan...@seeta.in Neeraj Gupta, nee...@seeta.in Ishan Bansal, is...@seeta.in Mukul Gupta, mu...@seeta.in -- Walter
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:13 PM, ganesh gajre Sugar Localization project is one interest of mine. I am contributing to Sugar platform translation in Marathi. I would like to be a part of it. Also, there are some of students who want to support for localization as a Voluntary work. Can we discuss about this. Can we set a modules for them and tell them to submit their tranlations to sugarlabs. Ganesh, I would be happy to offer advice on contributing to Sugar localization. If high-speed on-line access is readily available, having others register on our Pootle server is probably simplest (as you are already registered). The Localization list is available for use by anyone (in any language) that is working on our hosted L10n projects and needs a means of coordinating their efforts. http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization If internet access is not fast or readily available, we can discuss off-line techniques on the L10n list further and get the advantage of the experiences of others. There are already a number of language admins for Marathi, and they can best be reached by posting on the L10n list, it would be good to coordinate efforts with them. cjl volunteer Sugar Labs / OLPC / eToys Pootle admin ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
Dipankar, We are talking about Free software and Sweet application like a Sugar. Which creates the whole new world for FOSS and education. I don't understand how can you write the proposal you want to do in such a proprietry format. Lot's of developement FOSS has done in office. We have OpenOffice, Libreoffice, write activity and lot other FOSS based office tools, agreed we give support to MS too, it not means that we want to promote it... :P When we say Ubuntu, Sugar, or any other FOSS tools. We should Mean It from heart. This is just my thoughts when I deal with FOSS v/s proprietary Apps and format. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Walter Sir, Please find our draft for proposal in attachment. Thank You. Sincerely, Dipankar ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Ganesh (Dragger) Be a FOSSERS, use GNU/Linux ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
Ganesh, I have not mentioned anywhere that the development we want to do should be in propriety manner. We will be developing as a group and once there is a successful release, the code will always be free to use and modify. There will not be any restriction on what others want to modify the code for. :) As far as the browser activity is concerned, since we want to use chromium base for flexibility, thus contacting Google. We are also up for FOSS, but somebody has to start and make it ready before sharing his/her code to outer world. We are doing the same. :) Even if the proposal is rejected, we are thinking of continuing in summer 2011 anyways. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:34 AM, ganesh gajre ganeshga...@gmail.com wrote: Dipankar, We are talking about Free software and Sweet application like a Sugar. Which creates the whole new world for FOSS and education. I don't understand how can you write the proposal you want to do in such a proprietry format. Lot's of developement FOSS has done in office. We have OpenOffice, Libreoffice, write activity and lot other FOSS based office tools, agreed we give support to MS too, it not means that we want to promote it... :P When we say Ubuntu, Sugar, or any other FOSS tools. We should Mean It from heart. This is just my thoughts when I deal with FOSS v/s proprietary Apps and format. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Walter Sir, Please find our draft for proposal in attachment. Thank You. Sincerely, Dipankar ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Ganesh (Dragger) Be a FOSSERS, use GNU/Linux ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Walter Sir, Please find our draft for proposal in attachment. Thank You. Sincerely, Dipankar Attached (as an odt document :P), you'll find my edits and suggestions. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org Project proposal - all - GSOC OSPO.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
Hello Walter sir Thank you for your quick reply. We would be implementing the points that have been pointed out and get back to you as soon as possible. Regards Ishan Bansal On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Walter Sir, Please find our draft for proposal in attachment. Thank You. Sincerely, Dipankar Attached (as an odt document :P), you'll find my edits and suggestions. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Ganesh, I have not mentioned anywhere that the development we want to do should be in propriety manner. We will be developing as a group and once there is a successful release, the code will always be free to use and modify. There will not be any restriction on what others want to modify the code for. :) I didn't say anything about your code and developement. If you had read my reply properly. I talk about the format you had attached 'docx', when we call for FOSS, I atleast require a person to know the FOSS benefits it's requirement in day-today life. As far as the browser activity is concerned, since we want to use chromium base for flexibility, thus contacting Google. I don't have any problem to whom you contact... Even I don't know what you have written inside your proposal because I don't expect 'proprietary format to be used by any FOSS guys We are also up for FOSS, but somebody has to start and make it ready before sharing his/her code to outer world. We are doing the same. :) Thats great you are up for FOSS, but what is used if you can't spread FOSS even you are nor using FOSS in your life. What is use of the sharing that sharing is not provided the way it should be. I think you should read this once : http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_A_General_Introduction/Why_FOSS%3F Always open is, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html :) Even if the proposal is rejected, we are thinking of continuing in summer 2011 anyways. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:34 AM, ganesh gajre ganeshga...@gmail.comwrote: Dipankar, We are talking about Free software and Sweet application like a Sugar. Which creates the whole new world for FOSS and education. I don't understand how can you write the proposal you want to do in such a proprietry format. Lot's of developement FOSS has done in office. We have OpenOffice, Libreoffice, write activity and lot other FOSS based office tools, agreed we give support to MS too, it not means that we want to promote it... :P When we say Ubuntu, Sugar, or any other FOSS tools. We should Mean It from heart. This is just my thoughts when I deal with FOSS v/s proprietary Apps and format. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.inwrote: Walter Sir, Please find our draft for proposal in attachment. Thank You. Sincerely, Dipankar ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Ganesh (Dragger) Be a FOSSERS, use GNU/Linux -- Ganesh (Dragger) Be a FOSSERS, use GNU/Linux ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:13 PM, ganesh gajre Sugar Localization project is one interest of mine. I am contributing to Sugar platform translation in Marathi. I would like to be a part of it. Also, there are some of students who want to support for localization as a Voluntary work. Can we discuss about this. Can we set a modules for them and tell them to submit their tranlations to sugarlabs. Ganesh, Thanks Chris I would be happy to offer advice on contributing to Sugar localization. If high-speed on-line access is readily available, having others register on our Pootle server is probably simplest (as you are already registered). The Localization list is available for use by anyone (in any language) that is working on our hosted L10n projects and needs a means of coordinating their efforts. http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localizatiohttp://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization Definitely I will put the discussion related to localization on L10n list. So will get the comments from Indian language admins too. If internet access is not fast or readily available, we can discuss off-line techniques on the L10n list further and get the advantage of the experiences of others. There may be issue with low bandwidth for some of the student. So would like to discuss for Offline mode too.. From which we can also encourage local people to contribute translation when they have pass time. And it can be uploaded to Pootle server later. There are already a number of language admins for Marathi, and they can best be reached by posting on the L10n list, it would be good to coordinate efforts with them. Yes, sure I will coordinate with them. cjl volunteer Sugar Labs / OLPC / eToys Pootle admin -- Ganesh (Dragger) Be a FOSSERS, use GNU/Linux ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
Hello Walter Sir, I Dipankar Patro, Research Engineer, SEETA, would like to represent my team from SEETA, comprising of Neeraj Gupta, Ishan Bansal, Mukul Gupta with the following proposal of a project. The team members worked in the summer of 2010 for Ubuntu Sugar Remix, (with Manusheel Gupta, SEETA) and also made some successful patch submissions which eventually got pushed in the main repository. The reports regarding our work are published here: http://opensource.seeta.in/task_reports We all want to apply for the GSOC under GOOGLE OSPO: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/ospo We would like to work on the following areas related to Sugar, and would highly appreciate if you could mentor us. We will be presenting the same areas as below for GSOC. - The following are proposed areas: * * 1. *Developing a faster, secure and customizable browser activity for Ubuntu Sugar Remix.* Since Ubuntu Sugar Remix does not have a stable 'Browse' activity due to the hulahop package problem, we aim to develop a new browser activity implementing Google Chrominum base and functionality making the browser faster, secure and customizable. The same activity can be used for XO where the performance is crucial given the hardware specifications it has. 2. *Successful porting of Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu along with upgrading the existing activities*. Sugar is rapidly developing and we feel the need to be same with the Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Porting Sugar 0.90 to USR will be the first step in providing the latest compatible version of Sugar to Ubuntu Users. 3. *Localisation in India* If Sugar needs to be spread across in India, we feel the need of incorporating regional languages into it. This would include activities and applications available in regional languages. A new reason why Sugar can be used in Classrooms, even in Sub-Urban areas. - For the above, we have planned the following *structure of working and road map*: All members have experience of working on the Sugar back-end (where the code needs to be written or modified). I have some knowledge of networking, and would like continue to work on the same field for Sugar. Mukul and Ishan are experienced with working on activities. Ishan specially worked with Gtk end of activities, where as Mukul worked on the coding portion. As Neeraj has experience in the field of localization and has also worked on it, he will be the one specially working on the localization. For road map please visit this page: http://opensource.seeta.in/roadmap As you have incomparable experience in activity development on Sugar, we are seeking for your expert guidance on the whole browser activity development, which will definitely lead us to an outstanding achievement, and also help Sugar grow and spread more rapidly. Thank You for taking out time for us. Regards, Dipankar Patro, dipan...@seeta.in Neeraj Gupta, nee...@seeta.in Ishan Bansal, is...@seeta.in Mukul Gupta, mu...@seeta.in ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Requesting mentor ship for Project related to Sugar
It was a disappointment that we didn't get direct sponsorship for GSoC this year, but working with OSPO may be just the ticket!! Happy to be the mentor on these projects. Note that you should mention that there is a on-going webkit effort for Ubuntu but that Chromium would give us more flexibility and a broader offering. regards. -walter On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Hello Walter Sir, I Dipankar Patro, Research Engineer, SEETA, would like to represent my team from SEETA, comprising of Neeraj Gupta, Ishan Bansal, Mukul Gupta with the following proposal of a project. The team members worked in the summer of 2010 for Ubuntu Sugar Remix, (with Manusheel Gupta, SEETA) and also made some successful patch submissions which eventually got pushed in the main repository. The reports regarding our work are published here: http://opensource.seeta.in/task_reports We all want to apply for the GSOC under GOOGLE OSPO: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/ospo We would like to work on the following areas related to Sugar, and would highly appreciate if you could mentor us. We will be presenting the same areas as below for GSOC. The following are proposed areas: 1. Developing a faster, secure and customizable browser activity for Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Since Ubuntu Sugar Remix does not have a stable 'Browse' activity due to the hulahop package problem, we aim to develop a new browser activity implementing Google Chrominum base and functionality making the browser faster, secure and customizable. The same activity can be used for XO where the performance is crucial given the hardware specifications it has. 2. Successful porting of Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu along with upgrading the existing activities. Sugar is rapidly developing and we feel the need to be same with the Ubuntu Sugar Remix. Porting Sugar 0.90 to USR will be the first step in providing the latest compatible version of Sugar to Ubuntu Users. 3. Localisation in India If Sugar needs to be spread across in India, we feel the need of incorporating regional languages into it. This would include activities and applications available in regional languages. A new reason why Sugar can be used in Classrooms, even in Sub-Urban areas. For the above, we have planned the following structure of working and road map: All members have experience of working on the Sugar back-end (where the code needs to be written or modified). I have some knowledge of networking, and would like continue to work on the same field for Sugar. Mukul and Ishan are experienced with working on activities. Ishan specially worked with Gtk end of activities, where as Mukul worked on the coding portion. As Neeraj has experience in the field of localization and has also worked on it, he will be the one specially working on the localization. For road map please visit this page: http://opensource.seeta.in/roadmap As you have incomparable experience in activity development on Sugar, we are seeking for your expert guidance on the whole browser activity development, which will definitely lead us to an outstanding achievement, and also help Sugar grow and spread more rapidly. Thank You for taking out time for us. Regards, Dipankar Patro, dipan...@seeta.in Neeraj Gupta, nee...@seeta.in Ishan Bansal, is...@seeta.in Mukul Gupta, mu...@seeta.in -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
