Maybe a nice task for GSOC? 2014-02-26 13:45 GMT-03:00 James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com>: > During the 2012 Google code-in Lionel wrote a nice chapter for MYOSA on > making Activities using HTML 5 and WebKit. I have been slowly and steadily > updating the other chapters in the book to use Sugar 3 and GTK 3. I have not > updated the website with the latest changes because I don't want the book to > be in a half-done state, but I have been making steady progress. > > One thing I have noticed from lurking on this mailing list is that HTML 5 > and Sugar have made a lot of progress since that chapter was written. I get > the impression that what is written there may already be obsolete. I also > feel that I'm not the guy who can fix that. I did a fair amount of Activity > development before writing MYOSA but I've drifted away from it since then. > > I believe that HTML 5 is going to be a big deal for Sugar and that MYOSA > needs to have some new or updated chapters to reflect that. I am hoping that > some of you might contribute this content. > > As for my own updates, some of them might be published in a couple of weeks. > > Working on this book has been a rewarding experience for me. I consider it > part of my own Constructionist education. Since finishing it I have been > involved in writing or publishing many other books. I have transcribed books > for Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg Canada. I have scanned a bunch > of books for the Internet Archive, using a scanner I designed and built > myself. I updated a memoir of my days among the Hare Krishnas that had been > on a shelf for 30 years and published it, getting five star reviews on > Amazon. I have formatted for publishing a twelve volume illustrated English > edition of The Mahabharata, the great epic of India. I have written a > science fiction novel and am working on a second one. > > I am not suggesting that contributing HTML 5 chapters to this book will > change your life. However, it definitely changed mine. > > James Simmons > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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