FYI, I made a few quick edits... organized it a bit more, made a glossary tab/page (to define those confusing terms).
I also started a list of 'checklist items', which Activities need before they can become part of the 'G1G1v2 Activity Pack'. (I didn't know the specific details, but put down some ideas.... ) If the list of activities gets too long, we may think about pivoting the table around... but it's going to be difficult with a long criteria list. -iXo On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 13:41, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sameer thanks for making the spreadsheet world editable > > By the way how are you defining the following terms:- > > > > Stability > > Performance > > Child Utility > > Technical Utility > > Grown-up utility > > Lines of code > > > I'm not. I just pulled out a few items that came to me. Ideally, the > Sugar team should be making this list. > > > > > > Good definitions of these terms noted in the spreadsheet will reduce > > ambiguity. > > Agreed. Like a good data dictionary. > > 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/ > > > > Nothing like ambiguity to cause misunderstanding. > > > > > > > > On Sep 21, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > >>> > >>>> 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 > >>> > >>> Well I logged in to google docs, but I cannot edit this spreadsheet. I > >>> wanted to add Chat to the matrix as this activity is an extremely > useful > >>> communication tool for both children and adults. I know G1G1 users > that > >>> spend at least 80% of their XO usage with Chat and they have reported > to > >>> me > >>> that they have observed children having a wonderful time using Chat to > >>> communicate with their friends even when their friends were in the > same > >>> room. > >> > >> I've made it world-editable. Alternatively, you can download the > >> spreadsheet and play with it in Excel or OpenOffice. > >> > >>> > >>> Gmail activity seems redundant as Gmail is reachable from Browse. > >>> > >> > >> Yes, but it exists. Feel free to add as many activities as needed. > >> > >> Sameer > >>>> > >>>> 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/ > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Devel mailing list > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots >
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