[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

[Sean DALY]

umm... I'm trying to understand how that assists in keeping Activities
up-to-date... what plays the role of the FF browser, phoning in for
version availability?

thanks

Sean


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:04 AM, David Farning<dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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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