[SoaS] Inclusion of Foodforce in the Sugar Honey Packages as part of Soas

[DancesWithCars]

I've tried the FoodForce Activity on occasion,
and it does not always work for me...

First try was a noisy beeping sound
when starting up, and had to kill
it to keep from making noise at the
ClassActs book sprint, iirc.

Downloading has not been consistently
working since, for me (hangs during downloading),
so maybe some more testing, and tracking of bugs,
to release it further on the world?

I'm liking what I've seen of it,
but it doesn't always work for me,
though I've not spent a lot of
time figuring out why not.

Nor do I know the history, nor
politics, nor process of getting something
into Sugar/ SOAS/ Xoos/ name du jour...

FoodForce is similar to something we
had on Apple II computers back
in 1981-1982 time frame,
though I've never found the reference/
proper name of it.

Also, my SpeakSign is not deliverable/
running yet, so I can't throw too many stones,
as I live in a glass house (figuratively),
as well.


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com> wrote:
> Hi Deepank,
>
> Deepank Gupta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The foodforce team has been working on the Foodforce2
>> activity(http://code.google.com/p/foodforce) for over an year now. This
>> activity has been proven to enhance the learning capabilities of
>> children(school visits)
>> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force_2/Team_School_Visit> and has had
>> over 90000 xo downloads
>> <http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/downloads/list> for the beta
>> release. On the activities.sugarlab.org
>> <http://activities.sugarlab.org>, the activity is ranked 6th in terms of
>> weekly downloads and is also a featured program on Pygame page.
>
> I've seen the FoodForce2 posts some time ago... great work! :)
>
>> We are planning to release another version of Foodforce in November with
>> more advanced features and fixing of all the previous bugs and would
>> like to know the process of inclusion into the Honey packages and thus
>> being a part of the Soas distribution by default.
>
> Well, I can't speak for the Sugar process (to get it included in Honey),
> but for SoaS: We can include whatever is reasonably requested - though
> being on activities.sugarlabs.org is a requirement. I think it would be
> awesome to have FoodForce2 on it...
>
> Does anyone object to adding it?
>
> Sean, maybe this would even be something worth promoting?
>
>> Thanks,
>> Deepank
>
> --Sebastian
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