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

[James Simmons]

I think Read is fine if you limit it to PDF's and DJVU's, which is
what Get Internet Archive Books downloads.  EPUBs from Internet
Archive leave a lot to be desired from a proofreading standpoint (some
look like absolute gibberish), but you can't blame that on Read.  I
think Read is definitely "there" enough to be included and is an
essential Activity if you're going to give SoaS to students and
teachers.

James Simmons


On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> On 20 Mar 2010, at 17:59, James Simmons wrote:
>
>> If I could suggest adding either (but not both) of "Get Internet
>> Archive Books" or "Get Books".  GIAB is pretty robust, has just been
>> given a new-style toolbar, and no longer leaves behind a useless
>> Journal entry after it runs.  This (or Get Books) would enable new
>> SoaS users to get a bunch of books to read with Read (from a
>> collection of over a million).
>
> +1, but you'll notice Read is not in the 6 proposed base activities included... It is listed in the kickstart file, commented out, under a section titled "These are Activities that aren't quite there, but are important, so we're going to encourage people to test them." I've not seen any track tickets yet for why Read is not up to par.
>
>        http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/blobs/master/fedora-livecd-soas.ks
>
> I wish I had more time to help out, but what time I can spare goes to Sugar/Activities upstream, not distro platform and packaging issues.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary