Re: [Sugar-devel] IRC Activity fixes

2013-04-20 Thread Aneesh Dogra
Hello Michal, Great that you have decided to do a GSOC project for us. Thanks! Please refer to my inline comments below. On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Michał Poczwardowski wrote: > > I'm a regular IRC user and have few new ideas regarding IRC Activity. > As sugar channels reside at freenode, I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Number of students that will be accepted in GSoC

2013-04-20 Thread Walter Bender
I don't know yet. -walter On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Prannoy M wrote: > Hi, > I wanted to know how many students will be accepted through GSoC into > Sugar Labs?? > > *M.Prannoy* > > > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlab

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bidirectional communication javascript -local server

2013-04-20 Thread Daniel Narvaez
Hi, I think it could work but out-of-process communication inside the same process is weird. With that approach it would probably make more sense to communicate with telepathy and datastore directly, rather than going through the activity, perhaps using a websocket <-> dbus proxy like https://gi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bidirectional communication javascript -local server

2013-04-20 Thread Daniel Narvaez
As another data point, WebOS has a system/session bus (it uses to be based on dbus, now it's not anymore but the logic is similar anyway). To provide web apps access to system functionalities, they apparently pacthed WebKit1 https://github.com/isis-project/WebKit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platfo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bidirectional communication javascript -local server

2013-04-20 Thread Daniel Narvaez
The cloudeebus API seems pretty generic (from a very quick look) https://github.com/01org/cloudeebus/wiki/API The only method specific to the websocket implementation seems to be connect(). So, with webkit2, we could implement it all client side and avoid the proxy overhead. Implementation aside

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC 2013]

2013-04-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 4/19/13, Andres Aguirre wrote: > Hi Luca! > > The Sugar activities have a big dependence with GTK, wich is very difficult > to port to Android, so the idea of this project is to made a wrapper of GTK > that use a native graphic framework. > The start point of the project is to study a basic Sug

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC 2013]

2013-04-20 Thread Andres Aguirre
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > How different is this from using the native toolkit and use Py4A > (python for Android under the scripting layer) to port the business > logic? > Py4A is ok to port some part of the business logic, remember that Py4A doesn't have suppo

Re: [Sugar-devel] IRC Activity fixes

2013-04-20 Thread Michał Poczwardowski
Hello Aneesh, Thanks for your feedback! Your list of most important features will be really helpful during proposal writing. Before I start to prepare my proposal, I'll try to research available python IRC libraries. Note that mtime means last code modification in this case: pyirclib[1] - Whole

[Sugar-devel] Reg : GSOC Contribution

2013-04-20 Thread Anoop Kumar
Hi, I am Anoop Kumar, I want to contribute to Sugar development through GSOC. As the student proposals are about to begin, I want to know what would the selection criteria be i.e apart from the project proposal, what do I need to do to prove that I can be a potential contributor. I also wan

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hacking on HTML activities UI (was Re: GSoC 13)

2013-04-20 Thread suraj ks
Hi lionel, 1)Done with setting up of virtual box and installed sugar. Seems to be working fine. But, while running the Sugar in it, it slows down the pc a lot and various other issues come in while developing activities. I guess it is better if I switch to Ubuntu asap while hacking. 2)It w

[Sugar-devel] Local Labs Wikis was: Re: [IAEP] wiki.sugarlabs.org ongoing maintenance

2013-04-20 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi, When I did maintenance and upgrade of co.sugarlabs.org the only difference with the other local labs wikis, was that it had some extensions related to vandalism prevention: from LocalSettings.php: #dirakx para los vandalos # icarito - File Not Found #require_once( "$IP/extensions/TitleBlac

Re: [Sugar-devel] IRC Activity fixes

2013-04-20 Thread Aneesh Dogra
Okay. That sounds about right then! Go with python-irclib. Thanks and Regards Aneesh Dogra -- Sent from my Galaxy Nexus On Apr 21, 2013 1:04 AM, "Michał Poczwardowski" wrote: > Hello Aneesh, > > Thanks for your feedback! Your list of most important features will be > really helpful during propo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Reg : GSOC Contribution

2013-04-20 Thread Aneesh Dogra
You'll probably have to prove that you are competent to complete the project through some qualification tasks. Example for the "IRC activity fixes" project you'll have to do some research on existing python-irc libraries, chose the most suitable, do some small Gtk3 fixes, write a basic wrapper to y

[Sugar-devel] Chat Activity with translation

2013-04-20 Thread Prannoy M
Hi, I would like to work on the proposal 'Chat Activity with translation' for GSoC.I'm a first time GSoCer and am really interested to contribute.Can someone help me get started? I tried running sugar-emulator on ubuntu 12.04 but lots of activities were not working.So now I'm installing by the virt