XS Community Edition/0.4/Services/Activity Update

Copying activities

1. Insert your USB drive into your computer (I used my regular FAT32 formatted drive that I also use for flashing XOs)and create a directory named xs-activity-server

1. Navigate into the xs-activity-server dir and download some activities.

Create activity description which will show up on the entry for the activity in http://schoolserver/activities

1. get the bundle_id for the Activity. In Linux, it's simply:

zipgrep bundle_id activityname.xo

It should return something like:

JAMediaTube.activity/activity/activity.info:bundle_id = org.laptop.JAMediaTube

You want the bit at the end.

1. Create file named activities.info in the xs-activity-server dir.

For every activity you would like to write a "blurb" for, put an entry for that in the activities.info file. For example:

[org.laptop.JAMediaTube] description = Watch YouTube! It's really fun!

[org.laptop.FakeActivity] description = This is a placeholder for documentation purposes

Notice the bundle_id value we grepped for earlier? That's in brackets in the .info file with the description directly underneath.

While in the xs-activity-server dir on your USB drive, run this command:

sha1sum *.xo *.info > manifest.sha1

1. Eject the USB drive and plug it into the XSCE.

You've got your .xo files, set up your activities.info file, it's all on a USB drive in a dir named xs-activity-server, and now that you've got all the ingredients, the last order of business is to create a manifest for the XSCE to read.

1. Plug the USB drive into the XSCE.

And then magic happens! The activities you put on the USB drive in the xs-activity-server dir will just "automagically" show up on http://schoolserver/activities with the "blurbs" you wrote in the activities.info file.

I don't know how the USB drive gets ejected by novice users from the XSCE. Which could be a concern?