[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

[Gary C Martin]

On 10 Jun 2009, at 18:24, James Simmons wrote:

> Martin,
>
> I phrased that poorly.  A kid might care that James Simmons wrote  
> Read Etexts.  He probably won't care if James Simmons is a part of  
> Sugar Labs, or part of the community, or if it was part of GCompris,  
> or if we consider Read Etexts part of Glucose, Sucrose, Fructose, etc.
>
> If a kid accidentally removes the Moon Activity and wants it back he  
> might look in Math and Science or he might look in Pre-Installed.   
> It should be listed in both places.

I know what you meant about a "core" or "pre-Installed" category, but  
this is going to break so fast, actually already broken. Different  
distros are bundling different activities, some more some less, it's  
their call. I think David Van Assche mentioned getting 50+ Activities  
in the latest openSUSE image; and I'm sure school deployments will  
choose their own Activity sets.

--Gary

> As far as Dominick's vs. Costco, I enjoy the time I spend at Costco  
> and hate the time I spend at Dominick's.  A good taxonomy would  
> encourage a kid to explore the site and see what's available.  A  
> poor one would make him feel like I do on Sunday afternoons,  
> wondering why canned tomatoes are in a totally different aisle than  
> other canned vegetables, or why Pita bread isn't with the rest of  
> the bread, or why Blue or Feta cheese isn't with the rest of the  
> cheese in the Dairy section, etc.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> Martin Dengler wrote:
>>
>>> Other than that, does any kid or teacher care who maintains an
>>> Activity?
>>>
>>
>> Clearly you view the answer as "no" (I think in general, the right
>> answer is "not unless they can get something out of that person",
>> which is a distinct possibility in FOSS-land, so actually I think the
>> answer should be "they should because it can help them").  I don't
>> know what point you're making, expect possibly "we needn't care about
>> aslo's coherency for anyone other than 'learners'".
>>
>
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