Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2015: Interactive JavaScript Shell

2015-03-18 Thread Richa Sehgal
Dear Tony, Yes, it was very interesting to do that "logout" to personal email id challenge. It was good to see my email id on the screen! And I didn't know Purdue established the world's first CS Department - I knew it was old, but didn't know it was the oldest :) Regarding the proposal, the Suga

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2015: Interactive JavaScript Shell

2015-03-18 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Superb! I was interested in the challenge to replace the logout in the xo menu, they must have access to a new version! I suspect you visit the Computer Science Department there. Back in the day, the building was much smaller. However, the faculty required the university to build the new

[Sugar-devel] GSoC project on "Interactive JavaScript Shell"

2015-03-18 Thread Manraj Grover
Sir/Ma'am I am Manraj Singh Grover, currently in 3rd year, B.E., Netaji Subhas Institute Of Technology, Delhi University. I am interested in Interactive JavaScript Shell project of SugarLabs and would like to work on the same for my GSoC project. I have good knowledge of JavaScript and Python and

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2015: Interactive JavaScript Shell

2015-03-18 Thread Richa Sehgal
Dear mentors, I have submitted my proposal on official GSoC site - Google Melange. It would be good to have feedback from all the mentors so that I can improve upon it and submit a great proposal for the final evaluation by the Sugar community. Thanks a lot for all your guidance and support, Rich

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel, Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Walter Bender
Tony, I don't agree with your characterization of Sugar. We've never built in any assumptions about connectivity into the GUI, core system, or core activities (even the "web" activities all run off disk. The decision to migrate to GTK3 was made for technical reasons -- which you may disagree with

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel, Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Tony Anderson
Sean, I think you are getting at what I consider the heart of the problem. SugarLabs sees Sugar as an alternative GUI for any computing device with primary efficacy in the developed, internet-connected world. This goal is understandable since the XOs have a limited life and so Sugar must be o

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

2015-03-18 Thread Peter Robinson
I've added a few ideas that would be very useful for SoaS (and in general I believe), I hope it's not too late, feel free to update/edit/change/query. Peter On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > Sure. Please add them > > Measure to GST 1.0 would be good as well. > > On Wed, Mar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Next steps for the development team

2015-03-18 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Good idea. I will participate. On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > I will be there. > > -walter > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Martin Abente > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > What about having a development meeting next week? I think is time to > > discuss how are

Re: [Sugar-devel] Next steps for the development team

2015-03-18 Thread Walter Bender
I will be there. -walter On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Martin Abente wrote: > Hello everyone, > > What about having a development meeting next week? I think is time to > discuss how are we going to handle the next development cycle, start > socializing priorities, criticize the previous cycl

[Sugar-devel] Next steps for the development team

2015-03-18 Thread Martin Abente
Hello everyone, What about having a development meeting next week? I think is time to discuss how are we going to handle the next development cycle, start socializing priorities, criticize the previous cycle and release, and see what can be improved. I say, Tuesday 24, 2015. 17:00 UTC, on #sugar-

[Sugar-devel] GSOC 2015: JS interactive shell

2015-03-18 Thread Kushan Joshi
Hello developers, I am Kushan Joshi currently pursuing my Bachelors in Technology  from DA-IICT, India. I would like to discuss about the project Interactive Javascript Shell.  I went through Sugar Labs code, to get a feel of the whole project. The current discussion and projects seemed to be g

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Sean DALY
cc'ing the Marketing list - the one everyone forgets as soon as they discuss marketing. The MarketLab study we worked on back then confirmed what we already knew - that Sugar's websites did not accompany teachers interested in Sugar, and that Sugar absolutely needed a simple installer. They also a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Talking about good marketing, daniel g. siegel shared this today: http://www.dgsiegel.net/news/2015_03_18-lego's_1981_ad_campaign I think we should look at this creation moments in kids using Sugar, and not limit that to programming only. There are a lot of creative, wonderful, and happy people w

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks Sam. I never read that. Have good points. Gonzalo On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Sam P. wrote: > I just found this interesting powerpoint from a few years ago. Slide 25 > is basically a summary of this discussion: > https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbn

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-03-18 Thread Sam P.
I just found this interesting powerpoint from a few years ago. Slide 25 is basically a summary of this discussion: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtYXJrZXRsYWJzdWdhcnxneDo0Y2U3ODFjZDczMmU1Mjlh Thanks, Sam On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:16 AM Gonzalo Odiard wrote