[IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi...

In July 2009 I installed SoaS on my Mac using a CD made by Scott Dowdle at Bozeman LUG/Montana State University.  It currently "lives" in Virtual Box on my computer. I don't have the CD any more. Since then, I have been using it to demo Sugar to several hundred people at meetings and conferences in Montana, California, and even Argentina!

The Activities include:
Jigsaw Puzzle
InfoSlicer
IRC
Moon
Memorize
Speak
Turtle Art
Etoys
Pippy
and Jukebox

Some work better than others. I haven't been able to get Jukebox to work at all. Perhaps it would be a good idea to make a prototype of the SoaS version you want to use and have "ordinary folks" test it on a variety of platforms. 

There should certainly be more than 6 Activities. BTW, Speak and Memorize are hits everywhere. 

Caryl

> From: martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:54:04 -0400
> To: mel at melchua.com
> CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; sdz at sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other	lists
> 
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
> > The short version is that instead of "include all Activites by default,"
> > we're thinking of shipping very few (6) Activities by default - the ones
> > that help users get further Activities and help
> 
> I read Sebastian's post... and is less drastic than that. He seems to
> say: include only the well tested, known to work, actively maintained
> activities, with an eye towards activitries that serve as a good intro
> to the platform and that demo well.
> 
> But you say only 6... Which one is it?
> 
> The initial proposal I like; makes a lot of sense and raises the bar.
> IT basically increases the chances of a satisfactory first use.
> 
> Six activities not so much -- you need many steps + internet to add
> activities... and it'll be "random activity from ASLO, may well be
> unstable or useless". It significantly _reduces_ chances of
> satisfaction.
> 
> All IMHO...
> 
> 
> m
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