[SoaS] Activity inclusion for SoaS-4

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:16 PM, pbrobinson at gmail.com
> <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi SoaS people,
>>
>> So the current Sugar Activity list for SoaS-4 stands as follows with
>> the justifications as to why they're included.
>>
>> The basic idea is to include the core Sucrose/Fructose Activity list
>> (as long as they are actively maintained and work) and then a small
>> selection of Activities that are well supported and demonstrate the
>> features of the Sugar Learning platform such as the collaboration side
>> of it to contribute towards the K-6 side of SoaS's targets.
>>
>> So the core sugar Fructose activities [1] list is:
>> Browse
>> Chat
>> EToys
>> Log
>> Pippy
>> Read
>> Terminal
>> TurtleArt
>> Write
>>
>> These ones are also on the Fructose list but I'm not sure of their
>> status so we need to be convinced of their status:
>> Calculate
>> Image/ImageViewer
>> Jukebox
>>
>> To the Fructose list we're adding:
>> Physics - Because this is a great demo example (quick demo).
>> Record - Because its useful and kids tend to like recording/photoing stuff.
>> xoirc - Because this helps us help them.
>> paint - K-6 and enjoyed by kids
>> memorize - K-6 and enjoyed by kids
>> speak - Good for voice demos
>>
>> So the current planned inclusion list is as follows:
>> Browse
>> Chat
>> EToys
>> Log
>> Pippy
>> Read
>> Terminal
>> TurtleArt
>> Write
>> Physics
>> Record
>> xoirc
>> paint
>> memorize
>> speak
>>
>> That currently gives us a list of 15 Activities. Its obviously not the
>> final list and I look forward to suggestions. Its not guaranteed the
>> above list remain the same. For example Read still does not work. And
>> we're not aiming to get to the same level of previous releases, its
>> currently not maintainable with the current SoaS resources.
>>
>> Things to note are that the Activities need to be working, well
>> maintained, packaged in Fedora to be considered. To be in Fedora they
>> can't contain any binary blobs (if they have code that needs to be
>> compiled, that's fine but it must be done as per Fedora packaging
>> guidelines).
>>
>
> Sorry that I have not been able to attend the SoaS meetings of late
> and perhaps this is covered in the meeting logs. What happened to the
> ideas discussed on the inclusion criteria page, which I can no longer
> find in the wiki?

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria

Its not final yet so consider it more of a set of guidelines.

Peter