On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <<a href="mailto:bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Samuel Klein wrote: >> [ADD & UNSTAR] >> VNC Launcher Not sure what this category is for, but I feel like I need to put in a plug for Watch Me [1]. </blockquote><div> It's for activities with great demo potential, or that are useful in the hands of clueful XO uses/techers/&c -- but aren't so broadly useful as to merit taking up 2% of the default desktop. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Watch Me, wraps this process into a pure Sugar form, so that XOs running Sugar can share their screens with each other. [1] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4205" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4205</a> </blockquote><div> That's very cool; I hadn't tried it before. > <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ebemasc/StopWatchActivity-3.xo" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/StopWatchActivity-3.xo</a> +1 Mike writes: > I would recommend against including finance by default. As laptops > are given out by government agencies in countries where people are > often suspicious of the government and it's often the time that they > are trying to increase tax revenue this might well lead to suspicions. What about leaving it unstarred? I'd hate to leave out a good practical activity just out of indirect fear; similar arguments could be used as reasons not to have a word processor or spreadsheet altogether. SJ (who wishes ImageQuiz were available :) </div></div>