Michael, I took some of your thoughts... and the 'global' problem of no activities shipped with XOs. ... ran with it a bit further. . . . :-)
Thinking along the lines, the set of 'recommended' activities per deployment location are being discussed informally, without much tracking or public-wide awareness... or input.. I couldn't find a good list of activities bundled for each deployment, so I created a wiki page.. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peru_bundled_activities and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/G1G1_bundled_activities All from some 'inspirational' text I added on page. . . http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC#Upstream_Free_Software_Projects *"For each deployment location, OLPC staff will also work with local administrators and volunteers to develop a consistent set of 'core bundled activities'. To be installed on all base-software laptops deployed in that area. For examples, see Peru bundled activities<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peru_bundled_activities>and G1G1 bundled activities<http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=G1G1_bundled_activities&action=edit> ."* I used the term 'bundled' until there's consensus on terminology to use. I've read other terms such as 'core' (see wiki category) and 'activity packs' (latest discussion on devel list). I especially see this type of resource developing for coming up with a set of activities for the G1G1 users, planning and looking forward to the future... where some folks update to Update.1-700 (or newer), and get the interesting surprise of no activities and no easy method of downloading them. Thoughts or continuations of these ideas? :-) -Ixo On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear devel, > > While drafting release notes for Update.1 RC2 (signed update.1-699), we > realized that we need a good story about what we want the ecosystem of > activity and library packs (for use with the customization key [1]) to > be. > > The rough sense emerging from the folks I've interviewed so far > (dgilmore, kimquirk, walter, cjb) is that: > > * activity packs are collections maintained by public maintainers > > * people running deployments are responsible for choosing activities > that work for them and we should assist in this process > > * for the moment, any activity packs that we provide are just > conveniences and advice to them on how to get started > > * however, we should do our best to keep authoritative versions of all > activities we encounter and to encourage other folks to mirror this > content > > * to the extent that we are able, we should record the compatibility > matrix between builds and activities > > However, there are several questions that these rough thoughts do not > yet address: > > * what assistance are we obligated to provide to deployments? > > * if we discover notable flaws (security, legal, "objectionable > content") in bundles that a deployment is using, what should we do? > > * in particular, whose responsibility is it to initiate communication > of this sort? > > * (and others not listed here) > > Thoughts? > > Michael > > [1]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_key >
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