[sugar] proposed addition to the Activities page templete

[Walter Bender]

It is very same page I am talking about, but I had made a template
that is used by that page (Scott is the most recent one to have edited
the template) and that is where I'd suggest we add the field for
collaboration (and as was suggested, Journal use). I'll take a first
pass, but as was pointed out, we have a lot of testing to do to before
we can say anything very meaningful regarding the scale of the
collaborations possible.

In regard to the Journal, I thought we should indicate two bits of
information: (1) does the activity record an entry in the Journal? and
(2) does the activity put data objects into the Journal (as per
Record, for example). Comments?

-walter

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Walter,
>
> Thanks for scraping that off the sur list.
>
> +1 on the entire idea from me.
>
> My only concern is to try and keep it to one definitive page.
>
> This is the one I am currently aware of.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities
>
> Are you talking about updating that or something else?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
>
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:17:14 -0400
> From: "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com>
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> It obvious occurred to me after seeing some questions posed on the
> OLPC-Sur list:
>
> 4. There is an inventory of what activities can be used with
> mesh, nor what ways.
> 5. The mesh is only capable of some form of collaboration in small groups.
>
> Why don't we add a new field in the Activities page template that
> indicates both whether or not an activity supports some form of
> collaboration and, if so, what is the supported number of
> collaborators. (The latter may, of course, be somewhat fuzzy depending
> upon the nature of the connection: via school server or "under a
> tree").
>
> We could have a simple set of options (the numbers perhaps need tuning):
>
> A) no collaboration
> B) pair-wise collaboration
> C) small (3-4) group collaboration
> D) classroom (10-20) collaboration
>
> We could break down collaboration a bit further:
>
> sharing
> interacting
> ???
>
> and we may want to comment on, for example, how many Type A
> collaborations can be supported at once.
>
> An example of:
>  A is Turtle Art
>  B is Distance
>  C is Write
>  D is Chat
>
> We'd need to do some serious QA to figure this out, but I think it
> would go a long ways towards giving people a sense of what they can
> expect in terms of a robust use of Sugar.
>
> -walter
>
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