On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:12, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > Building a website for kids seems like a great idea to me. An online > extension of the Sugar interface could foster interaction between > Sugarized schools in a country and even beyond borders. The commitment > of choosing a username is not major for an existing Sugar user. And, > it could provide curious grownups with a (partial) idea of the Sugar > experience.
This remembers me something that has been in the back of my mind since FOSDEM, when Patrick Sinz showed me the custom UI that they have designed for the Gdium. They use gdesklets to display some widgets in the screen that relate to some online activity of the user. Those desklets can display info from facebook, gmail, rss feeds of all kinds, etc. The idea being (as I understood it) that the gdium is not only the physical device on the hands of the user, but also a medium through which sync a global, virtual identity with the local, real identity of the user. Of course this assumes an internet connection of some reliability. This may be related to a global "bulletin board", concept so often discussed but still so far from being implemented: http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Bulletin_Boards What do people think? Accessing, caching and displaying some online content inside the Sugar shell instead of only inside Browse seem like an idea worth discussing? Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep