Scratch is heavily used in Rwanda. The users do not find the 1.4 version
as a limitation.
As far as I can see, Music Blocks was not developed as a Sugar Activity.
A worthwhile first step would be to see if it works in Gnome on an XO.
This is presumably something a candidate with access to an XO can do to
show interest and competence. This could provide insight into whether it
would be feasible or worthwhile to port Music Blocks to Sugar
Tony
On 4/5/19 5:59 AM, James Cameron wrote:
We have 17 draft or final proposals. Most have also been published on
sugar-devel@, but not all. None have addressed the Scratch related
ideas.
That's fine. It's up to the students what they want to work on. We
gave them many ideas. If Scratch were so important, we would have
given them less ideas.
I don't think there's anything terribly wrong with the ideas that
mention Scratch. Port Sugarizer activities to Sugar has the most
detailed description;
https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#port-sugarizer-activities-to-sugar
I do think we are wrong to assume and hope that a student will adopt
an idea. If I were a student, I'd note;
* it's not a new thing, but a port of an existing thing,
* the technical complexity, or challenge, especially the work that
would be required in WebKit to support audio, (Browse, #85),
* the history of little progress in the code that needs to be
maintained,
* that few of the mentors have made any successful steps toward the
goal, and;
* there's been more hot air (talk) than action (coding),
I don't think we should be complaining about what students have failed
to propose. We should be encouraging instead.
So to any students out there thinking of a first, second, or third
proposal, consider "Port Sugarizer activities to Sugar". ;-)
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:22:48PM +0100, Chihurumnaya Ibiam wrote:
I'm happy to see the students bring in their own ideas too, I'm saying these
activity ideas are being neglected,
as all proposals suggested so far have been pointing towards creating something
new, while that's great we also
need to improve on what already exists.
Although there wasn't a specified number of activities to be created but I
don't think creating just one activity would be
great as proposals so far are only referring to creating just one new activity,
while the idea says a "new set of activities".
For Scratch, there's also a mention in the "Port sugarizer activities to Sugar"
idea but so far I've not seen a proposal for that.
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On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:18 AM Rahul Bothra <[2]rrbot...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion.
I disagree. I am happy to see the students bringing in their own ideas for
activities.
FWIW, we have already mentioned the suggested ideas, as well as the
resources to understand user experience. I would like to give students the
freedom to decide what they want to work on
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 5:55 AM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <[3]
ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I've looked at the proposals for [4]create a new set of activities and
none has addressed any of the activities proposed in the idea, although
the project idea encourages new ideas but I think that we should
clearly state the importance of the ones suggested as they're very
important.
Scratch for one is very important as it's currently widely used and
having it in sugar would mean more users.
I think that the importance of these ideas should be stated and they
shouldn't be neglected as they have.
Issue [5]#63.
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[5] https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/issues/63
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