On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 03:49:28PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > (copying the tecnologia@ and sugar-devel@ lists for their information) > > Pacita, meet Aleksey, a very active contributor of Sugar, maintainer of > the Sugar Labs activity library (ASLO) and packager of GCompris. > > Aleksey, meet Pacita, the lead of the education team of Paraguay Educa, > who has a very strong background on pedagogy and teaching materials. > > > The old monolithic bundle of GCompris was 70MB so big that it was > causing problems at all levels with the limited disk space of the XO-1. > > The new strategy of pulverizing GCompris into a hundred tiny bundles > made it unmanageable with the current shell (updater, launcher, > switcher, etc). > > After separate discussions with Pacita and Aleksey, we all seem to agree > that GCompris needs to be repackaged differently. From a technical > standpoint, breaking GCompris into 4-5 activities would be ideal.
Full v9.3 GC weights 45M (w/o voices), so if it is ok it could be just one activity. > However, it's not clear yet how the break should be done to make it more > useful in the classroom: by subject? by age group? by curriculum? > Educators can offer important input on this. There is some kind of administrative activity[1], but I never touched this. Will see how to sugarize it, I guess with this, we can effectively rich what we need. [1] http://gcompris.net/wiki/index.php?title=Manual#Administering_GCompris > Since I have very little insight on GCompris, I'll stay aside and follow > the conversation. > > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel