<div dir="ltr"><br><div>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.</div>
<div>However to be honest it's difficult for me to consider that my activity is "violent".<br></div><div>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).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Could you be explicit about what it means now:</div><div>- The activity should be removed from the Sugar Store,</div><div>- The activity could stay in the Sugar but should stay in Sandbox,</div><div>- The activity could stay on the Sugar Store with a sort of "Parental Advisory",</div>
<div>- ...</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div>So "violence" is probably very dependent of context/people and more an opinion or a judgement than an universal policy.</div><div><br></div><div> Lionel.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-03-10 15:23 GMT+01:00 Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Our policy is documented here [1]; but from ASLO we have links to [2]<br>
and [3], which are not the same and do not mention violence as a<br>
criteria.<br>
<br>
Regarding your comment about Tuxmath, I am not thrilled by it. But it<br>
is in high demand by teachers. It has been on my to-do list to replace<br>
it.<br>
<br>
regards.<br>
<br>
-walter<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Editors/Policy" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Editors/Policy</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/submission" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/submission</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/reviews" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/reviews</a><br>
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Lionel Laské <<a href="mailto:lionel@olpc-france.org">lionel@olpc-france.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Oooch, what a bad news! I wrote Sugar activities from years and didn't<br>
> suspect there was some restrictions. Is there a place where these conditions<br>
> are described?<br>
><br>
> BTW let me play advocate for this game:<br>
> - The game is a web port of the Tuxmath activity that is already in the<br>
> Sugar Store [1]. The difference is that Tuxmath use space invaders theme<br>
> instead of military. Killing Alien is better ?<br>
> - The naive design of units is inspired by the Gameboy game Advance War [1]<br>
> that is really a game for children<br>
> - I'm not a designer, I choose this theme because I've found some nice free<br>
> arts on this here [3]. I've not at all knowledge or budget to redesign the<br>
> content.<br>
><br>
> Best regards from France.<br>
><br>
> Lionel.<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en/sugar/addon/4271" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en/sugar/addon/4271</a><br>
> [2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Wars" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Wars</a><br>
> [3] <a href="http://www.vickiwenderlich.com/2012/03/free-game-art-tank-wars/" target="_blank">http://www.vickiwenderlich.com/2012/03/free-game-art-tank-wars/</a><br>
><br>
> 2014-03-09 23:28 GMT+01:00 Sugar Labs Activities <<a href="mailto:activities@sugarlabs.org">activities@sugarlabs.org</a>>:<br>
><br>
>> A Sugar Labs Activities Editor requested further information from you<br>
>> regarding version 1 of your activity Tank Operation.<br>
>><br>
>> Walter Bender wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> "We don't accept activities with militaristic themes regardless of their<br>
>> relevance to mathematics. Could you refactor the game to use a metaphor<br>
>> other than tanks? Thx"<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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