Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-04-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 20:06, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Specifications/Groups See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Groups Thanks for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Specifications/Groups See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Groups Thanks for the links. I re-read the spec and mockups. Looks like a fantastic start. Brief

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-25 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: ... Yeah, definitely. We did a lot of thinking on this topic way back when, so there is some documentation already describing a proposed

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 17:00, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: maybe we can start with a Moodle-only approach and later extend to a generic system that works with or without a server. Yep - no prob

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: Yep - no prob for me. The GUI side probably needs a bit of extra thinking so that it avoids being specific to the backend works (moodle in this case)... I was thinking that Moodle would put contacts in groups in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: maybe we can start with a Moodle-only approach and later extend to a generic system that works with or without a server. Yep - no prob for me. The GUI side probably needs a bit of extra thinking so that it avoids being

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-21 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: would be a nice feature to eventually have to let the teacher narrow down the neighborhood based on a specific Moodle group, for a

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2010 16:50:09 +0100 From: Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net Subject: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view To: XS Devel server-de...@lists.laptop.org,   sugar-devel        sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID:        242851611003030750h1d788b23n9ee9925bf35c8

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-04 Thread James Simmons
would do it. The messages I got weren't all that helpful. James Simmons Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:50:09 +0100 From: Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net Subject: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view To: XS Devel server-de...@lists.laptop.org,   sugar-devel        sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi all, based on a conversation in #sugar with Collabora's Rob and Sjoerd, would like to propose some changes to how we display contacts/buddies in Sugar with the goal of improving scalability in the use cases we care most about. I know in these lists are people with a very good knowledge of how

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: based on a conversation in #sugar with Collabora's Rob and Sjoerd, would like to propose some changes to how we display contacts/buddies Good that you're thinking about this! - In the neighborhood view, display all

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-03 Thread Caroline Meeks
I like your thinking around this. I do have one use case to think about, although probably not support yet. The GPA resorts its students a few times a day, even within the same grade level. There is one group of students for reading, another mix for math, and then another, perhaps with students

Re: [Sugar-devel] scalability in the neighborhood view

2010-03-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: would be a nice feature to eventually have to let the teacher narrow down the neighborhood based on a specific Moodle group, for a specific period of time.  That is have students focus on only other students in their