^is^are^ :) On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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