Hi, have created a git repo in gitorious that could be used as an starting point:
http://gitorious.org/projects/labyrinth-sugar We should notify the Labyrinth authors of this effort at some (early) point. Regards, Tomeu On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Lionel and all OLPC France, > > excuse me if this comes too late or isn't to the point, but would like > to propose to hack on a mind mapping activity during the CodeCamp in > Paris. > > I think this project has the appeal of being in direct connection to > the needs in the field. Teachers from Uruguay, Peru and Panama have > asked for such a tool, and have been exploring alternatives that may > not be the best: drawing in Paint, using the connectors in Etoys, > executing a java app (CMaps) inside the X Activity or using web apps. > > Happens that a pygtk application for mind mapping already exists and > its architecture makes for an easy port to sugar. It's called > Labyrinth [0] and was proposed more than one year ago by Jim Gettys > [1] though no resources were allocated. Recently, teachers in the > olpc-sur mailing lists asked again for it [2] and I gave a quick (2 > hours) try to sugarize it with some success [3]. > > In [3] you can find links to the activity bundle, a screenshot and a > patch to the code in the svn repository. > > [0] http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth.html > [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4577 > [2] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001168.html > [3] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001173.html > > My proposal is for the CodeCamp participants to divide in pairs and > each pair to choose one feature to add or bug to fix. At the end of > the session, everybody would integrate all the changes and produce a > single bundle. > > Most of the functionality is already in the original pygtk app, it's > "just" a matter of exposing that functionality through the Sugar UI. > > I will try to be in #sugar at FreeNode during the CodeCamp to answer > questions. > > After the CodeCamp, we could send the bundle to teachers in olpc-sur > and ask them to try it and give feedback. Also, at some point whoever > is interested in following up could contact the authors of Labyrinth > and see the best way to upstream the changes. > > What do you say, looks like a challenge? > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > 2008/11/1 LASKE, Lionel (C2S) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> OLPC France is proud to announce its OLPC CodeCamp in Paris on November >> 15th. >> >> >> >> Five workshops are planned: >> >> >> >> · Sugar: development and experimentation on Sugar/python, >> >> · School Server: setting up and test of school server on multiple >> platform (standard PC, Booba server, CherryPal, …), >> >> · Mono: development of new activities using Mono, >> >> · Pedagogic usage: Feedbacks from Haïti, Ethiopia and Palestine >> deployment. Brainstorming with French teachers to find usage and class >> activity for the XO. >> >> · French localization: French translators will work all the days to >> translate in French, sugar, activities and FLOSS manual. >> >> >> >> If you're interested to meet the French OLPC community and to have a nice >> trip to Paris: you're welcome ! >> >> >> >> More information on: >> http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=OLPC_France_CodeCamp_15_november >> >> >> >> Best regards from France. >> >> >> >> Lionel Laské >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel