I have to agree with Martin and Yama, here.<div>Speaking for teachers working with students, the extra work to download the extra activities desired for over a hundred flash drives would be daunting at best.</div><div> </div><div>Gerald <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <<a href="mailto:yamaplos@gmail.com">yamaplos@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Totally 120% with Martin here. I am completely unhappy with the usability of the concept of "download your own activities" for the total n00b. 20? Maybe as an option a stripped-down somewhere for power users who really want to do what is proposed. (I seem to recall there was a request for discussing this elsewhere, but I don't remember and erased the original email, so my apologies) Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua <<a href="mailto:mel@melchua.com">mel@melchua.com</a>> 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 > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div> </div>