User:Tarun2000/Progress Report

Educational Blogger Project - Weekly Update

Week of August 4

• Lots of documentation of the code and info on the wiki
• Use cases uploaded to wiki
• Server crash again =(

Week of July 28

• Many more UI improvements
• Write support tested and working on local machine
• 40% getting abiword installed on the server to support Write upload

Week of July 21

• Many changes to UI
• Sync Blog settings finished
• Several bug fixes to EduBlog (see git log)
• Bundled fix to install along side Browse
• Image upload problem patched by Tomeu

Week of July 14

• After discussing with Tomeu, a viable solution to the image upload bug has been found - need to modify filepicker.py in Web.activity
• Server up and running, core features all functional
• Bug preventing image upload really NASTY!!! Diving into sugar code to find a workaround/fix!
• Server Crashed =(!
• Fixed cause of Blogger post issue by installing dom extension for php
• Two Major issues: Journal failure on XO, Blogger Posts not working on server
• Working on themeing fixes, getting final touches for beta test.
• Sugar+Primary theme almost IE compatible, pretty much fully Browse and Firefox compatible
• Moodle had some install issues that need to be fixed
• Tony got the server up and running with everything needed!

Week of July 7

• Thinking about auth module
• All functional elements complete except one script that needs to have Blogger.com specific calls removed
• Loaded LAMPP On XO with Moodle EduBlog - server to have Moodle later this week!
• Theme modifications for working on XO - all EduBlog Moodle pages render correctly
• External Blog Management system complete for Blogger.com (including image support)
• Teacher Review incorporated into OU Blog

Week of June 30

• Modified create blog page to link to external blog
• Created a pre alpha management and add blog page
• Created Remote Blog API and Blogger.com Plug in
• Added preview plug-in to tinyMCE Sugar theme
• Finished with a basic integration of tinyMCE w/ Sugar theme in Moodle

Week of June 23

• Researched how file upload is handled in Moodle
• Implemented Image Upload with tinyMCE in mockup
• Halfway done with integrating tinyMCE with Moodle
• Implemented customization of student page in mockups for user input
• Revised Timeline due to delay in XS availability (pushed non-dependent tasks first)

Week of June 16

• Revised timeline to take some Moodle difficulties into account (tinyMCE integration not officially supported until 2.0)
• Outlined changes to OU Blog Tables, first step in phase 2
• Discussed more details of Moodle implementation with Greg to rework admin and teacher mockups
• Completed Sugar Theme for tinyMCE (IE, FF, Browse compatible! + Easier Moodle integration!) - First Milestone
• Bug fixes to Image Upload
• Image upload to blogger mostly finished and being tested by users!

Week of June 9

• Test server almost ready! Gave suggestions of additional software to Tony
• Started getting a lot of user feedback (on uruguay-xo-coordination list) and tweaked mockups
• Figured out how to upload images to Blogger (very little doc!)
• Reconfigured Moodle with tinyMCE (will be replaced officially in 2.0) and started work on the UI
• Implemented basic post to Blogger functionality so users can comment on the whole workflow (screenshot)!
• Git repository set up by Marcel! Organized and uploaded what we had so far
• Work plan nearly finalized and exact Moodle modifications identified
• Overall project plan approved by Greg and Martin
• Finished mock ups of teacher and student pages for end user comments

Week of June 2

• Initiated process to obtain development XO
• Started discussion with Martin about the EduBlog project
• Continued prototyping student editor page (added image upload)
• Evaluated using Moodle with OU Blog as per Martin's advice (feasible, but requires more discussion)
• Researched methods for remotely posting to Blogger.com (first target system for remote posting)
• Revised project plan based on modifications and information from list

Week of May 28

• Discussed project timeline and milestones with Greg
• Applied for project hosting with Marcel
• Set up a hosting account with LAMP to develop until Fedora with XS made available
• Began developing prototype of student editor page (http://olpc.betarun.com/ui/student_editor.php)