[ASLO] [REQUEST] Tank Operation-1

[Lionel Laské]

Hmmm. So it look like more to a non-written rule, there is nothing very
clear regarding "violence" on your links. Let's say that my activity is
probably a good opportunity to think about this policy.
However to be honest it's difficult for me to consider that my activity is
"violent".
Plus it's very frustrating to me to imagine that the activity is not
compliant to the Sugar Store policy - and believe me I'm familiar with
frustration coming from store policies on other platforms (iOS, Microsoft,
Google).

Could you be explicit about  what it means now:
- The activity should be removed from the Sugar Store,
- The activity could stay in the Sugar but should stay in Sandbox,
- The activity could stay on the Sugar Store with a sort of "Parental
Advisory",
- ...

Regarding Tuxmath, it's the children favorite activity in our deployment in
France and in Madagascar. More: today Tuxmath is the most recommended/used
activity by teachers in our deployment in France.
So "violence" is probably very dependent of context/people and more an
opinion or a judgement than an universal policy.

                   Lionel.




2014-03-10 15:23 GMT+01:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:

> Our policy is documented here [1]; but from ASLO we have links to [2]
> and [3], which are not the same and do not mention violence as a
> criteria.
>
> Regarding your comment about Tuxmath, I am not thrilled by it. But it
> is in high demand by teachers. It has been on my to-do list to replace
> it.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Editors/Policy
> [2]
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/submission
> [3] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/reviews
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Lionel Laské <lionel at olpc-france.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Oooch, what a bad news! I wrote Sugar activities from years and didn't
> > suspect there was some restrictions. Is there a place where these
> conditions
> > are described?
> >
> > BTW let me play advocate for this game:
> > - The game is a web port of the Tuxmath activity that is already in the
> > Sugar Store [1]. The difference is that Tuxmath use space invaders theme
> > instead of military. Killing Alien is better ?
> > - The naive design of units is inspired by the Gameboy game Advance War
> [1]
> > that is really a game for children
> > - I'm not a designer, I choose this theme because I've found some nice
> free
> > arts on this here [3]. I've not at all knowledge or budget to redesign
> the
> > content.
> >
> > Best regards from France.
> >
> >                 Lionel.
> >
> > [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en/sugar/addon/4271
> > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Wars
> > [3] http://www.vickiwenderlich.com/2012/03/free-game-art-tank-wars/
> >
> > 2014-03-09 23:28 GMT+01:00 Sugar Labs Activities <
> activities at sugarlabs.org>:
> >
> >> A Sugar Labs Activities Editor requested further information from you
> >> regarding version 1 of your activity Tank Operation.
> >>
> >> Walter Bender wrote:
> >>
> >> "We don't accept activities with militaristic themes regardless of their
> >> relevance to mathematics. Could you refactor the game to use a metaphor
> >> other than tanks? Thx"
> >>
> >>
> >> Please reply to this e-mail or join #sugar on chat.freenode.net.
> >>
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> >>
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> Walter Bender
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