New Sugar Team Project on Launchpad...

[Jeff Elkner]

Hi Caroline,

David is learning Python web application frameworks, and will probably
use Django to create the app.  I think that approach may be best
anyway, since ELGG seems to be way too big a framework for what we
need.  The beauty of the Scratch site is how easy it is to use (you
don't need to read *any* documentation to figure out how to use it).
Our turtleart site should be the same.  I plan to act as on-sight
customer (in the eXtreme Programming sense), and to write the user
stories at each stage of development of the application.  And I think
the size of this project is just right for a final project for David,
and another student, Aaron Crowe, who will have 90 hours of "senior
experience" time to work on this project.

We'll keep everyone in the loop as we proceed.

Thanks!

jeff

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Caroline Meeks <caroline at meekshome.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> This is a great idea.  Have you looked at ELGG as a base for this? Its an
> open source project out of the UK that is gaining a lot of traction.  Its a
> PHP system that creates a facebook like site with blogging and file sharing,
> friends and groups. Its modular and have good permissions handling on files,
> shouldn't be too hard to create a "Turte Art Module".
> Solution Grove created and contributed back a single sign on integration for
> Moodle. So if you use ELGG as your base it should be possible for
> deployments who are using the XS with Moodle to add your system to their
> setup if they want to create their own system do to bandwidth or privacy
> issues.
> If you do decide to use ELGG let me know and I'll introduce your programmers
> to our ELGG programmer and he can mentor a bit.
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> After teaching with Turtle Art in several classes (High School, Middle
>> School, and Elementary School students from Saturday enrichment
>> classes to ELL - English Language Learners), we began gathering some
>> of the work students did into a Google doc, which can be seen here:
>>
>> http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc63cfgj_19d3xrd2hn
>>
>> What we really need is a social networking site for TurtleArt, similar
>> to http://scratch.mit.edu.  I have a *very* talented 9th grade
>> student, David Reich, who is earning college credit with me this
>> semester in web application programming, so I asked him if he'd like
>> to take a crack at getting this started.
>>
>> The project he setup on launchpad:
>>
>> https://edge.launchpad.net/turtlesite
>>
>> I wrote up the 1st two blueprints, assigned them to David, and made
>> Walter the approver.
>>
>> jeff elkner
>>
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