[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

[David Farning]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, that's the procedure when running Sugar and using Browse... which
> I wasn't doing. A couple of phrases removing the mystery will help us;
> it's a lowering-the-barriers issue... we can't assume everyone will
> alertly figure it out.
>
> After all, common sense tells you that Software Update in the Control
> Panel should check for Activity updates, which it sort of does, but
> also doesn't. I understand that that infrastructure is on the OLPC
> side, but a friendly checkbox for activities.sugarlabs.org (with of
> course the server-side magic necessary) would help a lot.

Aslo is set up to handle automatic activity updates using the same
mechanism firefox uses to check for addon update.

david

> I have stringent wireless security at home and it's a pain to connect
> my XOs wirelessly, so I usually temporarily run a cable to an Ethernet
> USB adapter (the green Zoltan thing I got from XOexplosion). But I got
> stuck with ASLO by downloading the xo packages on another computer, to
> a USB stick; with no idea how to bring them into an XO or a netbook
> running SoaS. I only recently figured out how to browse files on a USB
> key from within Sugar :-)
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:28 AM, James
> Simmons<jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
>> Sean DALY wrote:
>>>
>>> GCompris is fine where it is; it is very well known in Europe and
>>> elsewhere and has a five year headstart on us in word-of-mouth and
>>> credibility with teachers. Although marketing/branding of GCompris has
>>> been minimalist, it has a well-deserved reputation for quality. I'm
>>> very excited GCompris is arriving in Sugar and I hope collaboration
>>> will work in those Activities too.
>>>
>>
>> OK with me.  I hadn't heard of it before OLPC, so I assumed nobody else had
>> either.
>>>
>>> I disagree that common baseline Activities should be absent;
>>>
>>
>> I never suggested that they be *absent*, just not featured.  I'm thinking
>> that a new Sugar user finds his way to ASLO by clicking a link on the Browse
>> start page and the featured items ought to be things he doesn't have yet.
>>
>> I like the term "Featured Activity" better than "We Recommend" too.  "We
>> Recommend" implies that the Activity is among the best and most robust we
>> have, which limits what you can put in there.  "Featured Activity" implies
>> nothing more than "We think this is cool and worth a look."  For instance, I
>> would not hesitate to put "Story Builder" or "GCompris 3D Maze" as a
>> Featured Activity, but would have a harder time saying I recommend either of
>> them.  Plus you could change what is a Featured Item every month or so.
>>  That would make this site a bit more interesting to visit, and you wouldn't
>> have people wondering why last month we recommended Read Etexts but this
>> month we don't.
>>>
>>> We need a short intro explaining
>>> the install procedure (it took me days to figure out how to do it). I
>>> had mentioned this a while back but I don't remember if someone
>>> besides me had volunteered to look at that
>>
>> I just hit the Download button from within Browse.  The Activity gets added
>> to my Journal and is ready for use.  I know there are other ways to install
>> something, but downloading to the Journal works just fine for me.
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
>>
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