[Its.an.education.project] An "About" statement?

[Bryan Berry]

Definitely lack of documentation. But also stable API's and more system
stability. I tested all of the OLPC Games activities on build 699 and
none of them worked. That was quite disappointing, esp. when Pong didn't
work :(

I have also been disappointed to find that sharing is *very* spotty when
working in a link-local mesh.


On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 18:46 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 18:18 +0200, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> >  > If I've learned any lesson in my years
> >  > in Fedora, it's this: attempts to generate community are wasted if there
> >  > is not an adequate architecture of participation to sustain that
> >  > community.
> >
> >  Greg's absolutely right. It has been very difficult for volunteers to
> >  get involved w/ OLPC for the last couple years. The learning curve is
> >  very steep, esp. for less technical folks. I remember the hassles of
> >  trying to get sugar-jhbuild running on my laptop 12 months ago, *the
> >  suffering*.  It still is far too difficult to get involved in Sugar for
> >  the reasons Greg pointed out.
> >
> >  It especially difficult for non-technical educators to get involved. We
> >  need to work on lowering these barriers.
> >
> >  We would all love for kids to develop their own learning activities but
> >  that just hasn't come to pass so far. We've been developing learning
> >  activities w/ ETOys w/ the hope that kids could build upon our
> >  activities and improve them. But the Squeak code gets complicated
> >  quickly, and performance issues multiply like rabbits.
> >
> >  For now, We need to at least make it easier for software developers to
> >  create activities w/in a short span of time.
> 
> Other than the build issues, which we are working on, what else do you
> see as blocking/discouraging people to write activities? Lack of
> documentation?
> 
> Marco
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Bryan W. Berry
Systems Engineer
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org