On 10 Jun 2009, at 18:24, James Simmons wrote: > Martin, > > I phrased that poorly. A kid might care that James Simmons wrote > Read Etexts. He probably won't care if James Simmons is a part of > Sugar Labs, or part of the community, or if it was part of GCompris, > or if we consider Read Etexts part of Glucose, Sucrose, Fructose, etc. > > If a kid accidentally removes the Moon Activity and wants it back he > might look in Math and Science or he might look in Pre-Installed. > It should be listed in both places.
I know what you meant about a "core" or "pre-Installed" category, but this is going to break so fast, actually already broken. Different distros are bundling different activities, some more some less, it's their call. I think David Van Assche mentioned getting 50+ Activities in the latest openSUSE image; and I'm sure school deployments will choose their own Activity sets. --Gary > As far as Dominick's vs. Costco, I enjoy the time I spend at Costco > and hate the time I spend at Dominick's. A good taxonomy would > encourage a kid to explore the site and see what's available. A > poor one would make him feel like I do on Sunday afternoons, > wondering why canned tomatoes are in a totally different aisle than > other canned vegetables, or why Pita bread isn't with the rest of > the bread, or why Blue or Feta cheese isn't with the rest of the > cheese in the Dairy section, etc. > > James Simmons > > > Martin Dengler wrote: >> >>> Other than that, does any kid or teacher care who maintains an >>> Activity? >>> >> >> Clearly you view the answer as "no" (I think in general, the right >> answer is "not unless they can get something out of that person", >> which is a distinct possibility in FOSS-land, so actually I think the >> answer should be "they should because it can help them"). I don't >> know what point you're making, expect possibly "we needn't care about >> aslo's coherency for anyone other than 'learners'". >> > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel