<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <pre wrap=""><div class="moz-txt-sig">Message: 5 Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:54:04 -0400 From: Martin Langhoff <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com"><martin.langhoff@gmail.com></a> Subject: Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists To: Mel Chua <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mel@melchua.com"><mel@melchua.com></a> Cc: iaep <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org"><iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org></a>, Sebastian Dziallas <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sdz@sugarlabs.org"><sdz@sugarlabs.org></a> Message-ID: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:46a038f91003200854jf6705f4i65052df18172ecf6@mail.gmail.com"><46a038f91003200854jf6705f4i65052df18172ecf6@mail.gmail.com></a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mel@melchua.com"><mel@melchua.com></a> wrote: </div></pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>The short version is that instead of "include all Activites by default," <span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>we're thinking of shipping very few (6) Activities by default - the ones <span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>that help users get further Activities and help </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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 ---------------------------------- Could a DVD of most used activities be built that could act as an off line library accessible from Browse for downloading of additional activities? This would make the internet access a mute point. (Great for "Sneaker-net" use off line) Tom Gilliard satellit ----------------------------------- activities... and it'll be "random activity from ASLO, may well be unstable or useless". It significantly <span class="moz-txt-underscore"><span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span>reduces<span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span></span> chances of satisfaction. All IMHO... m <div class="moz-txt-sig">-- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:martin@laptop.org">martin@laptop.org</a> -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff</a> </div></pre> </body> </html>