Plasma Active 3 Sprint - KDE Edu Notes

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

On 03/12/2012 12:27 AM, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I would like to summarize what we achieved (at least my part and
> understandings) at the Plasma Active 3 Sprint with regards to the KDE
> Edu project.
Thanks a lot for this feedback!

Would it be very difficult to make a QML frontend for  Parley? Parley is 
a very versatile app for learning and would be awesome to have. People 
like to learn with their device when they commute for example.
Maybe we can push a few tasks to KDE SoK which is a scheme we run for 
students who can't get a GSoC. The work can be lighter than a full GSoC, 
the student gets a certificate and a t-shirt, no money.

Thanks for your work on starting some Edu apps. As Aaron says in his 
mail, you're opening the road for other people, this is great!

Anne-Marie

PS: can I forward your mail to the Edu list?
> == Discussion, overall view ==
>
> Cornelius was mentioning some potential customers for educational
> purposes, and as such: Plasma Active and Spark might be an interesting
> target for them. They have not decided too concrete things yet as far
> as I understood. Unfortunately, I do not know more about it.
>
> Another smaller, but very important topic to me is that it would be
> nice to get a qml frontend for the khns and get hot new stuff
> functionality. Unfortunately, it is not a big enough task for a GSoC
> student in my opinion, and I have already put many ideas about Gluon
> in there, thus it is not gonna happen as part of that session.
>
> Another good thing is that that we do not need to be afraid of the kde
> ui (and similar hard dependencies through the libkdeedu-libkio-kdeui
> chain) since it is available on the platform by default and few
> megabytes on this platform is not a real burden. Shipping the
> dependencies will also be simpler for the Plasma Active App Store than
> Ovi hopefully because we do not hopefully need to bundle the
> dependencies up with our packages.
>
> Then there were general realizations about not having enough manpower
> in the project (there are nowadays more and more platforms to port
> to), and it would be nice to improve the collaboration with teachers
> and students as well in the future.
>
> == Implementation side ==
>
> === Packaging ====
> 1) libkdeedu
> 2) analitza
> 3) kalgebra
> 4) kanagram
> 5) khangman
>
> See my private repository on the Community OBS for details (things are
> there pretty much the results of this event):
> https://build.pub.meego.com/project/packages?project=home%3Adjszapi%3AKDE-Devel
>
> === Coding ===
> In general: discussion with Marco about how to construct a Plasma
> Active application, as in how to organize the package and source code,
> plus certain questions about the usage of the Plasma Active
> components.
>
> 1) Kanagram now has a plasma active subfolder with the initial steps
> (metadata desktop file, ui contents, kdeclaratiview, etc). Ui needs to
> be developed (qml files will be added into the package/contents/ui
> folder), but the proper structure is already in place.
>
> 2) KHangMan has the same establishment, plus I decoupled the "engine"
> and the harmattan relevant code, so the engine I established for
> Harmattan is reusable for the Plasma Active frontend in the future.
> Same thing as with kanagram, ui needs to be developed, thus not much
> happened on that front.
>
> There were also other breakout sessions taking place around; some of
> which are also very important from KDE Edu application development
> point of view, like the SDK and OBS session. Please see the
> active at kde.org mailing list for further details about those. There are
> already some available feedback and notes over there:
> Plasma Active SDK Notes:
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/active/2012-March/003137.html
> Plasma Active App Store Notes:
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/active/2012-March/003164.html
>
> Many thanks to Anne-Marie for "pushing" us and the project forward! :-)
>
> Best Regards,
> Laszlo Papp
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