Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
Hi Christian, On 8 Jan 2012, at 19:21, Christian Marc Schmidt christianm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all We met today on IRC to discuss the website design and content, but not many were present. It is important that we get your feedback as the work on the website progresses. Therefor, I am looking to reschedule our meeting to another time that works for everyone. See John's original email below: We are looking for feedback on the design as well as volunteers to help us generate content for the new website. Does this coming Saturday 14th at 11:00am EST/16:00 UTC work for everyone? Or is a time during the week better? Suggestions welcome. Sorry I'll be traveling by train, but I might be able to connect to irc if the mobile signal is reasonable. Regards, --Gary Thank you, Christian On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:10 PM, John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello All, Happy New Year! As the New Year starts we are making another effort to restart the Sugar Labs Website Revamp. Designer and community member Christian Marc Schmidt has put together a Design Template along with a Sugar Labs Website Refresh: Content Document. These two documents along with the work and content gathering done by RIT Co-op students Mike Devine and JT Mengel last year will hopefully give us solid basis to start from. Our Kick-off IRC meeting will take place this Sunday Jan. 8th on#sugar-meeting at 11:00amEST(16:00UTC), after the Design Meeting surrounding Write To Journal Anytime taking place at 10:00amEST. Please join us if you are available-our key shortcoming last year in our attempt was a lack of content to effectively create the new site. All help is Welcome and needed. Because this is in the Building and Design stage please email me at: jtis4...@hotmail.com to get links to the preview documents if you are interested in being part of the process. Our First Step is to give Christian the Thumbs Up/Make Enhancements to the Design. Our Second Step will look to get individual community members to take responsibility in Content Gathering Areas that flow out of the documents Christian has prepared. Our Third Step is to execute Content Gathering Upon receiving enough content Christian will then commence the build phase. We hope you can join us on Sunday and look forward to working with the community to do this important work. Please let us know of your interest in taking part in this important endeavor. Appreciate the Collaboration! John Tierney P.S. Please get into the hands of those who will be best able to assist-Thank You! -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013 http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.facebook.com/christianmarcschmidt http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt http://twitter.com/cms_ Skype: christianmarcschmidt ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 09:58 -0500, Steve Thomas wrote: I am working on a project hosting site for activities (similar to the Scratch Website) where Sugar users can post projects they create. I am using Google App Engine, but would also need some other infrastructure (ex:WebDav server for storing/serving project files) We can do that on Sunjammer, our main server. My main need for now is: 1. WebDav Server 2. Ability to create login's (user/pass) that default to a specific directory 3. Ability to create sub-directories (one per user) 4. A cron job to detect newly uploaded files and parse them to get manifest information. (I'll write the cron job, just need permissions to set them up) If you want, the infrastructure team can host the entire application, but you'd have to switch to a free web framework such as LAMP, Rails, Drupal or (I hope not) Django. At some point in the future I realize it would be good to build this on a free framework, so it could be installed on school servers. At this point I think I will stick with App Engine and then once I have that working look to porting something to another framework. I guess not Django, although I am curious as to why not. Another idea could be integrating with the existing ASLO (php) or perhaps rebasing ASLO on the current upstream Remora codebase (python). Links please (for Remora) Stephen ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 09:58 -0500, Steve Thomas wrote: I am working on a project hosting site for activities (similar to the Scratch Website) where Sugar users can post projects they create. I am using Google App Engine, but would also need some other infrastructure (ex:WebDav server for storing/serving project files) We can do that on Sunjammer, our main server. My main need for now is: 1. WebDav Server 2. Ability to create login's (user/pass) that default to a specific directory 3. Ability to create sub-directories (one per user) 4. A cron job to detect newly uploaded files and parse them to get manifest information. (I'll write the cron job, just need permissions to set them up) If you want, the infrastructure team can host the entire application, but you'd have to switch to a free web framework such as LAMP, Rails, Drupal or (I hope not) Django. At some point in the future I realize it would be good to build this on a free framework, so it could be installed on school servers. At this point I think I will stick with App Engine and then once I have that working look to porting something to another framework. I guess not Django, although I am curious as to why not. Another idea could be integrating with the existing ASLO (php) or perhaps rebasing ASLO on the current upstream Remora codebase (python). Links please (for Remora) Just a correction Remora is no longer maintained, instead Mozilla is maintaining Zamboni it's python successor more info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/AMO:Developers Stephen ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
Apologies for the very late response, I fell behind on email processing for a while. On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 09:58 -0500, Steve Thomas wrote: So one form of content would be project kids/teachers create using various activities (Turtle Art, Etoys, etc.) TurtleArt's home page in the wiki has plenty of good examples to rip for the website. For the other activities, I collected several representative screenshots for use in talks. My slides are already published in the wiki, but I can't retrieve the link right now because I'm working offline. I am working on a project hosting site for activities (similar to the Scratch Website) where Sugar users can post projects they create. I am using Google App Engine, but would also need some other infrastructure (ex:WebDav server for storing/serving project files) We can do that on Sunjammer, our main server. If you want, the infrastructure team can host the entire application, but you'd have to switch to a free web framework such as LAMP, Rails, Drupal or (I hope not) Django. Another idea could be integrating with the existing ASLO (php) or perhaps rebasing ASLO on the current upstream Remora codebase (python). Also, Andres Monroy-Hernandez had a good blog post on Supporting an Online Community for Kids. I'll read it when I get online, thanks. -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
Folks, So one form of content would be project kids/teachers create using various activities (Turtle Art, Etoys, etc.) I am working on a project hosting site for activities (similar to the Scratch Website) where Sugar users can post projects they create. I am using Google App Engine, but would also need some other infrastructure (ex:WebDav server for storing/serving project files) Also, Andres Monroy-Hernandez had a good blog post on Supporting an Online Community for Kidshttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/andresmh/2011/11/supporting-an-online-community-for-kids/ . Stephen On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 11:21 -0800, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote: Does this coming Saturday 14th at 11:00am EST/16:00 UTC work for everyone? Or is a time during the week better? Suggestions welcome. Works for me. As for the calendar, for please use the Sugar Labs Meetings calendar: Calendar ID: h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquu...@group.calendar.google.com atom: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquusmg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic ical: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquusmg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics html: https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquu...@group.calendar.google.comctz=America/New_York If you don't have write access, please give me a gmail / google account. BTW: I'm working to setup a calendar server within the Sugar Labs infrastructure, but it's not yet ready. -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 11:21 -0800, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote: Does this coming Saturday 14th at 11:00am EST/16:00 UTC work for everyone? Or is a time during the week better? Suggestions welcome. Works for me. As for the calendar, for please use the Sugar Labs Meetings calendar: Calendar ID: h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquu...@group.calendar.google.com atom: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquusmg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic ical: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquusmg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics html: https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquu...@group.calendar.google.comctz=America/New_York If you don't have write access, please give me a gmail / google account. BTW: I'm working to setup a calendar server within the Sugar Labs infrastructure, but it's not yet ready. -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
Hi all We met today on IRC to discuss the website design and content, but not many were present. It is important that we get your feedback as the work on the website progresses. Therefor, I am looking to reschedule our meeting to another time that works for everyone. See John's original email below: We are looking for feedback on the design as well as volunteers to help us generate content for the new website. Does this coming Saturday 14th at 11:00am EST/16:00 UTC work for everyone? Or is a time during the week better? Suggestions welcome. Thank you, Christian On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:10 PM, John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello All, Happy New Year! As the New Year starts we are making another effort to restart the Sugar Labs Website Revamp. Designer and community member Christian Marc Schmidt has put together a Design Template along with a Sugar Labs Website Refresh: Content Document. These two documents along with the work and content gathering done by RIT Co-op students Mike Devine and JT Mengel last year will hopefully give us solid basis to start from. Our Kick-off IRC meeting will take place this Sunday Jan. 8th on#sugar-meeting at 11:00amEST(16:00UTC), after the Design Meeting surrounding Write To Journal Anytime taking place at 10:00amEST. Please join us if you are available-our key shortcoming last year in our attempt was a lack of content to effectively create the new site. All help is Welcome and needed. Because this is in the Building and Design stage please email me at: jtis4...@hotmail.com to get links to the preview documents if you are interested in being part of the process. Our First Step is to give Christian the Thumbs Up/Make Enhancements to the Design. Our Second Step will look to get individual community members to take responsibility in Content Gathering Areas that flow out of the documents Christian has prepared. Our Third Step is to execute Content Gathering Upon receiving enough content Christian will then commence the build phase. We hope you can join us on Sunday and look forward to working with the community to do this important work. Please let us know of your interest in taking part in this important endeavor. Appreciate the Collaboration! John Tierney P.S. Please get into the hands of those who will be best able to assist-Thank You! -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013 http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.facebook.com/christianmarcschmidt http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt http://twitter.com/cms_ Skype: christianmarcschmidt ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
Christian, I'll be there. Thanks. Gerald On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt christianm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all We met today on IRC to discuss the website design and content, but not many were present. It is important that we get your feedback as the work on the website progresses. Therefor, I am looking to reschedule our meeting to another time that works for everyone. See John's original email below: We are looking for feedback on the design as well as volunteers to help us generate content for the new website. Does this coming Saturday 14th at 11:00am EST/16:00 UTC work for everyone? Or is a time during the week better? Suggestions welcome. Thank you, Christian On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:10 PM, John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello All, Happy New Year! As the New Year starts we are making another effort to restart the Sugar Labs Website Revamp. Designer and community member Christian Marc Schmidt has put together a Design Template along with a Sugar Labs Website Refresh: Content Document. These two documents along with the work and content gathering done by RIT Co-op students Mike Devine and JT Mengel last year will hopefully give us solid basis to start from. Our Kick-off IRC meeting will take place this Sunday Jan. 8th on#sugar-meeting at 11:00amEST(16:00UTC), after the Design Meeting surrounding Write To Journal Anytime taking place at 10:00amEST. Please join us if you are available-our key shortcoming last year in our attempt was a lack of content to effectively create the new site. All help is Welcome and needed. Because this is in the Building and Design stage please email me at: jtis4...@hotmail.com to get links to the preview documents if you are interested in being part of the process. Our First Step is to give Christian the Thumbs Up/Make Enhancements to the Design. Our Second Step will look to get individual community members to take responsibility in Content Gathering Areas that flow out of the documents Christian has prepared. Our Third Step is to execute Content Gathering Upon receiving enough content Christian will then commence the build phase. We hope you can join us on Sunday and look forward to working with the community to do this important work. Please let us know of your interest in taking part in this important endeavor. Appreciate the Collaboration! John Tierney P.S. Please get into the hands of those who will be best able to assist-Thank You! -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013 http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.facebook.com/christianmarcschmidt http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt http://twitter.com/cms_ Skype: christianmarcschmidt ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
Hello All, Happy New Year! As the New Year starts we are making another effort to restart the Sugar Labs Website Revamp. Designer and community member Christian Marc Schmidt has put together a Design Template along with a Sugar Labs Website Refresh: Content Document. These two documents along with the work and content gathering done by RIT Co-op students Mike Devine and JT Mengel last year will hopefully give us solid basis to start from. Our Kick-off IRC meeting will take place this Sunday Jan. 8th on#sugar-meeting at 11:00amEST(16:00UTC), after the Design Meeting surrounding Write To Journal Anytime taking place at 10:00amEST. Please join us if you are available-our key shortcoming last year in our attempt was a lack of content to effectively create the new site. All help is Welcome and needed. Because this is in the Building and Design stage please email me at: jtis4...@hotmail.com to get links to the preview documents if you are interested in being part of the process. Our First Step is to give Christian the Thumbs Up/Make Enhancements to the Design. Our Second Step will look to get individual community members to take responsibility in Content Gathering Areas that flow out of the documents Christian has prepared. Our Third Step is to execute Content Gathering Upon receiving enough content Christian will then commence the build phase. We hope you can join us on Sunday and look forward to working with the community to do this important work. Please let us know of your interest in taking part in this important endeavor. Appreciate the Collaboration! John Tierney P.S. Please get into the hands of those who will be best able to assist-Thank You! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)
On 01/05/2012 04:10 PM, John Tierney wrote: Hello All, Happy New Year! As the New Year starts we are making another effort to restart the Sugar Labs Website Revamp. Designer and community member Christian Marc Schmidt has put together a Design Template along with a Sugar Labs Website Refresh: Content Document. These two documents along with the work and content gathering done by RIT Co-op students Mike Devine and JT Mengel last year will hopefully give us solid basis to start from. Our Kick-off IRC meeting will take place this Sunday Jan. 8th on#sugar-meeting at 11:00amEST(16:00UTC), after the Design Meeting surrounding Write To Journal Anytime taking place at 10:00amEST. Please join us if you are available-our key shortcoming last year in our attempt was a lack of content to effectively create the new site. All help is Welcome and needed. I suggest looking at : http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Introduction_to_the_Sugar_Interface (This is a set of linked wiki pages to introduce teachers/students to sugar) Also the same content on a USB-stick for use; where there is no Internet available; on XO-1; XO-1.5 ; SoaS and Trisquel-sugar (and soon for an Intel MacBook) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#SCK-USB_.28CD.iso.29 I hope this fits in to what you want for the new wiki. Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar IRC Because this is in the Building and Design stage please email me at: jtis4...@hotmail.com to get links to the preview documents if you are interested in being part of the process. Our First Step is to give Christian the Thumbs Up/Make Enhancements to the Design. Our Second Step will look to get individual community members to take responsibility in Content Gathering Areas that flow out of the documents Christian has prepared. Our Third Step is to execute Content Gathering Upon receiving enough content Christian will then commence the build phase. We hope you can join us on Sunday and look forward to working with the community to do this important work. Please let us know of your interest in taking part in this important endeavor. Appreciate the Collaboration! John Tierney P.S. Please get into the hands of those who will be best able to assist-Thank You! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
