[IAEP] Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 18:47, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
<dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also this should be asked to future XO 1.5 deployments,
> they could have another ideas for activities to be included in the list.

Should we ask in olpc-sur?

Thanks,

Tomeu

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> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Chris,
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>> I agree with Gerald on either Get Books or Get IA Books (not both).
>> Get Books is still being worked on by Sayamindu Dasgupta but perhaps
>> he could get it in shape for inclusion in time.  Right now it doesn't
>> work on .82, but I can't see that being an issue.
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>> Get IA Books works on either but is limited to the books in the
>> Internet Archive.  There are only about a million books there!  It is,
>> however, ready to go.  It isn't a popular download on ASLO but it
>> deserves to be.
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>> You might also consider Read Etexts, because of its text to speech
>> with highlighting feature and its own built in book search.  It only
>> works with Project Gutenberg titles, so no pictures.  The present
>> version is useable, but I'm working on a new version that supports
>> word wrapping on PG texts and saving font size and speech preferences
>> (pitch and rate).  This is a popular download on ASLO.
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>> I've never tried the IRC Activity so I'm not knocking it, but I wonder
>> if children would find that useful.  They already have Chat and Speak.
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>> If you're going to include Read you should consider what evince
>> modules, etc. to include with it.  With the right modules Read can do
>> DJVU, .cbz, and EPUB documents as well as PDFs.  DJVU in particular is
>> useful for Internet Archive books.
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>> James Simmons
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>>> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:26:22 -0500
>>> From: Gerald Ardito <gerald.ardito at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5
>>> To: Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org>
>>> Cc: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org, devel at lists.laptop.org
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>>> Chris,
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>>> I would suggest at least one of the Activities to get books, like Get IA
>>> Books.
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>>> Otherwise, this list looks good.
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>>> Thanks.
>>> Gerald
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