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Hi...<br><br>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!<br><br>The Activities include:<br>Jigsaw Puzzle<br>InfoSlicer<br>IRC<br>Moon<br>Memorize<br>Speak<br>Turtle Art<br>Etoys<br>Pippy<br>and Jukebox<br><br>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. <br><br>There should certainly be more than 6 Activities. BTW, Speak and Memorize are hits everywhere. <br><br>Caryl<br><br>> From: martin.langhoff@gmail.com<br>> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:54:04 -0400<br>> To: mel@melchua.com<br>> CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sdz@sugarlabs.org<br>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other        lists<br>> <br>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua <mel@melchua.com> wrote:<br>> > The short version is that instead of "include all Activites by default,"<br>> > we're thinking of shipping very few (6) Activities by default - the ones<br>> > that help users get further Activities and help<br>> <br>> I read Sebastian's post... and is less drastic than that. He seems to<br>> say: include only the well tested, known to work, actively maintained<br>> activities, with an eye towards activitries that serve as a good intro<br>> to the platform and that demo well.<br>> <br>> But you say only 6... Which one is it?<br>> <br>> The initial proposal I like; makes a lot of sense and raises the bar.<br>> IT basically increases the chances of a satisfactory first use.<br>> <br>> Six activities not so much -- you need many steps + internet to add<br>> activities... and it'll be "random activity from ASLO, may well be<br>> unstable or useless". It significantly _reduces_ chances of<br>> satisfaction.<br>> <br>> All IMHO...<br>> <br>> <br>> m<br>> -- <br>> martin.langhoff@gmail.com<br>> martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect<br>> - ask interesting questions<br>> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first<br>> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep<br>                                            </body>
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