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

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hi,

It's done..let's see what people says there.


Rafael Ortiz



On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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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>> Rafael Ortiz
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>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> James Simmons
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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,
>>>>
>>>> I would suggest at least one of the Activities to get books, like Get IA
>>>> Books.
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise, this list looks good.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Gerald
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