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== Social presence ==
== Social presence ==
Since the recent press coverage there are many new people who wish to participate in some way. In particular, many of them are unaware of the progress that has been made with SUGAR to date and want to reimplement it. To support these people and get them on the right track, we need to point them to the existing SUGAR work. To begin with, this can be pointers to other sites, but we need to get people to write up pages on how to set up a development environment including SUGAR on normal desktop systems running Windows(Cygwin), OS X, and other UNICES.


== Visual design ==
== Visual design ==
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* We are going to need to evaluate this and see how much of it is doable within our current platform.
* We are going to need to evaluate this and see how much of it is doable within our current platform.
* The implementation is probably going to be a mix of custom (cairo drawn) and traditional widgets.
* The implementation is probably going to be a mix of custom (cairo drawn) and traditional widgets.

== Others ==

(This was'nt really part of the meeting but someone added it on this page and it makes total sense, so I don't want to delete it...)

Since the recent press coverage there are many new people who wish to participate in some way. In particular, many of them are unaware of the progress that has been made with SUGAR to date and want to reimplement it. To support these people and get them on the right track, we need to point them to the existing SUGAR work. To begin with, this can be pointers to other sites, but we need to get people to write up pages on how to set up a development environment including SUGAR on normal desktop systems running Windows(Cygwin), OS X, and other UNICES.

Revision as of 16:46, 5 June 2006

Goals

  • Raise ideas about social presence
  • Start figuring out our visual design and strategy

People

  • Dan Williams
  • Diana Fong
  • Bryan Clark
  • Marco Pesenti Gritti

Results

Social presence

Visual design

  • Diana is working on mockups of the Sugar visual appeareance (yay!).
  • We are going to need to evaluate this and see how much of it is doable within our current platform.
  • The implementation is probably going to be a mix of custom (cairo drawn) and traditional widgets.

Others

(This was'nt really part of the meeting but someone added it on this page and it makes total sense, so I don't want to delete it...)

Since the recent press coverage there are many new people who wish to participate in some way. In particular, many of them are unaware of the progress that has been made with SUGAR to date and want to reimplement it. To support these people and get them on the right track, we need to point them to the existing SUGAR work. To begin with, this can be pointers to other sites, but we need to get people to write up pages on how to set up a development environment including SUGAR on normal desktop systems running Windows(Cygwin), OS X, and other UNICES.