On 4 Sep 2009, at 06:59, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Eben Eliason <e...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Caroline Meeks<solutiongr...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > My vision is that we would create Moodle Classes for all the various > > groupings that students have throughout the day. > > Then maybe the Neighborhood view shows only people who share a > group with > > you, or maybe those people get preference if the Neighborhood gets > too > > crowded. > > I think giving preference to people one knows/interacts with is a > logical approach. > > > On the Friends view it might be useful to pick just one of these > groups. So > > if I'm in Reading Group A right now I could choose Reading Group A > in a drop > > down in the friends view and it would show only people in my > reading group. > > Later I am in Mr. J's Afterschool club and I pick that so I can > work with > > them. After that I'm in homework time and I want to work on my > Reading > > Group, I can use this to easily see if anyone else from my Reading > Group is > > around to work on the homework assignment with. > > +1. This has been our intent for the groups view all along, and the > lack of groups (naturally) has left it mostly useless. I think we > should retain the ability to make friends, who should also appear in > the view (and give it some utility until the rest is built), but the > ability to filter the view to see and interact with specific groups of > individuals is key to the collaborative experience. > > We had an ambitious view of what groups should be in the absence of a > server, before Moodle was investigated. Perhaps we can start with a > moodle approach and merge/sync that with a server-less approach later. > Or perhaps the server-less "ideal" isn't actually needed, and Moodle > is the appropriate means of introducing this much desired feature. > > Mmm, seeing that many deployment schools (a) don't seem to have a > school server or (b) might have a school server but one that's not > in use (due to config issues, power supply issues, etc.) I'm not > convinced that making Moodle a hard requirement for that kind of > functionality is a good idea. If there's a school server / Moodle > installation then let's use it by all means but I do believe that we > must try to offer a reasonable solution to places without that kind > of infrastructure.
+1 Regards, --Gary _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel