Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-30 Thread James Cameron
Thanks. Some of the discussion is also found in the issues list of our GSoC repository [1], (register a GitHub account and you can mark it as watched [2]), and some discussion also happens on Gitter [3] or IRC. https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/issues https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/watchers

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-30 Thread utkarsh Dhawan
Hi, The jupyter notebook seems like a good idea. Since it gives a lot of capabilities for the instructors to create interactive textual content. Evaluating on the time, I think it is very much achievable in a summer. Are you guys planning to take that ahead. If yes, I am also willing to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-23 Thread Amaan Iqbal
James Cameron wrote: > You replied to me, but that wasn't me you quoted, it was Rahul. Ya, I know. I just replied to all. > However, it would be wrong > to set expectations of colourful software by adding lots of colour to > the web site. I just meant to update the color palette, never to have

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-22 Thread James Cameron
Amaan Iqbal wrote: > > I don't expect revamping a website to be a _goal_. > > Without a proper website with the latest content, how can we expect > the activities to reach the audience? You replied to me, but that wasn't me you quoted, it was Rahul. At the moment activities generally reach the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-22 Thread Amaan Iqbal
> I don't expect revamping a website to be a _goal_. Without a proper website with the latest content, how can we expect the activities to reach the audience? > Even if we add a project for improving the website, 2 years down the line > we might again face a similar email pointing out the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-21 Thread James Cameron
Thanks. But my vote is no. It's not three months of coding. It doesn't solve a problem we have with our software products; Sugar, activities, Music Blocks, or Sugarizer. Our problem with the web site is with the content, in turn because we have had few content producers, and too many people

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-21 Thread Peace Ojemeh
Greetings, So I’ve been making a couple research about this for while now, visiting several orgs that does something similar us @samswag helped with some links, all in the attempt to give our website what it take to be entertaining and highly engaging, relate a lot more with our targeted audience

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-21 Thread Rahul Bothra
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:47 PM Samson Goddy wrote: > Sugar Labs Social was never a GSoC project, I don't understand why > you keep bringing it up Thanks, I know. I simply pointed that it never reached deployment, though I'm sure people working on it even as we speak. > Any "coding" project

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-21 Thread Walter Bender
My two cents re GSoC: from the very beginning of our involvement, I have thought of it as an opportunity for us to take some risks and explore new ideas. That being said, it is incumbent upon us to provide good mentoring and follow through. -walter On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:18 PM Samson Goddy

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-21 Thread Samson Goddy
Just for some point of correction. Sugar Labs Social was never a GSoC project, I don't understand why you keep bringing it up. Any "coding" project that is related to Sugar Lab's goals or leads to improvement to the mission is eligible as a Gsoc project. Some project requires more than 3

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-21 Thread Rahul Bothra
Hello, On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 7:44 PM Amaan Iqbal wrote: > I see we only have 6 projects so far in our Ideas list in comparison to 11 > which were selected in GSoC last year. Being a successful Open Source > organization, I sincerely hope we have the potential of having many more > projects in

[Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-21 Thread Amaan Iqbal
Hello, I see we only have 6 projects so far in our Ideas list in comparison to 11 which were selected in GSoC last year. Being a successful Open Source organization, I sincerely hope we have the potential of having many more projects in GSoC this year(most probably 15+ if we can come up with such