In fact, there is a great deal of data from the field in the form of the activity packs that Peru, Uruguay, et al. developed. These collections have been vetted and tested extensively and have a built-in community of support. They are learning-centric collections, but presumably, those G1G1 purchasers who are interested in other pursuits will run Fedora/GNOME or XP.
-walter On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What are your criteria? Are you ranking things by supportability and size? >> If so Ruler is a no-brainer. It's 20kb and is unlikely to break easily. >> >> On the other hand SimCity is hard to make drastic changes and still be >> called SimCity. It's currently buggy and has no active maintainer. > > > I am curious about the criteria as well. This thread is expressive of > a select few who bothered to reply (self selection bias) and as you > can see each list is myopic from the poster's point of view. I've seen > a lot of younger kids like tamtam mini mostly because of the cow, > sheep, cat dog, duck etc. This is my opinion only though. I'd love to > see if there is any data from the field on this. > > Sameer > >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Thanks a lot for the input on which activities to ship! >>> >>> Here is the list of activities I will to management as my suggestion on >>> what we ship. >>> >>> Please help test these! See the end of the e-mail for instructions. >>> >>> The list I recommend is essentially the G1G1 activities (kudos to the >>> team who chose the first set!). In addition to those I list a few which >>> got repeated votes (except Chess and Sudoku which are a concession to SJ >>> ;-) >>> >>> Original G1G1 activities: >>> Browse >>> Read >>> Write >>> Paint >>> Record >>> TamTam Jam, Mini, on fence: Synthlab, Edit, >>> Chat >>> Pippy >>> Etoys >>> Turtle Art >>> Calculate >>> Measure >>> Distance >>> Memorize >>> Terminal >>> Log >>> Analyze >>> >>> New ones: >>> Help >>> Implode >>> Speak >>> Maze >>> SimCity >>> Scratch >>> Xaos >>> StarChart >>> Moon >>> GCompris Chess >>> GCompris Sudoku >>> >>> The only significant change from the original G1G1 set is the TamTam. I >>> think we should include 2 not 4 so as not to over weight them against >>> other activities. >>> >>> Let me know if anyone has comments on that (Jean can you live with that?). >>> >>> Not all of these are sure to make it. On the other hand it's very >>> unlikely that anything else will make it. So if you have an urgent >>> request or a specific concern please speak up now. >>> >>> Of course, anyone can download additional activities so even if an >>> activity is not on this list, it still attracts a lot of users. >>> >>> We need help testing these with the latest 8.2 image. We plan to make a >>> release candidate today and if it passes smoke test we will add the >>> activities and content to create a signed release candidate on Monday! >>> >>> Developers, >>> >>> Please reply with the final version and URL of each activity which we >>> should include in the image. Each one must pass final test and have an >>> active and reachable developer to make the final list. >>> >>> Morgan, >>> >>> can you make sure we have a contact e-mail and name on each of these? >>> Also, let me know if you any of them are orphaned or not well maintained. >>> >>> All, >>> >>> Please test them all one more time let us know how it goes. >>> >>> I want to know if each of these passes the tests described here: >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.0#Activities >>> >>> Please create a new test case for any activity that needs one. >>> >>> To do that, go to this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Form:Test_case >>> and entering Tests/Activities/nameofactivity to create a new test case. >>> Then choose activity from the drop down and you can just paste in the >>> steps test from above for a start. >>> >>> Then you can add a test result by clicking on the "+" sign next to the >>> test case (it takes a little while for them to show up after creation). >>> >>> You can also e-mail comments or test results back to this list. >>> >>> Thanks a lot for your help. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Greg S >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devel mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grassroots mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar