On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > I'm not convinced that they are well-tested. They included News Reader, > which hasn't worked for the last several releases. That doesn't suggest to > me that their activities went through any kind of extensive testing before > deployment. They have since been tested in the field by children. I > *haven't* seen much feedback from kids yet. At least not from South > American and not any broad spectrum. > > ---Seth > >
In an attempt to make the decision-making process more unbiased (or at least more multi-criteria) I've put up a basic spreadsheet for a scoring matrix at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en In the spreadsheet, there are three main components. Column B has factors such as stability, performance, etc to assess against. I just made these up, but feel free to make your own. The weights (column C) essentially defines the importance of each factor as a percentage of a total of 100%. The rest of the columns are for each activity. Feel free to add your own. Score them on a scale of 1 to 10. Each score gets weighted and you'll see totals at the bottom. Sort for the totals in Descending order and skim off the top 10. There you have it. Multi-criteria decision-making made simple. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar