<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In fact, there is a great deal of data from the field in the form of<br>
the activity packs that Peru, Uruguay, et al. developed. These<br>
collections have been vetted and tested extensively and have a<br>
built-in community of support. They are learning-centric collections,<br>
but presumably, those G1G1 purchasers who are interested in other<br>
pursuits will run Fedora/GNOME or XP.<br>
<br>
-walter</blockquote><div><br><br><br>I'm not convinced that they are well-tested. They included News Reader, which hasn't worked for the last several releases. That doesn't suggest to me that their activities went through any kind of extensive testing before deployment. They have since been tested in the field by children. I *haven't* seen much feedback from kids yet. At least not from South American and not any broad spectrum.<br>
<br>---Seth <br></div></div><br></div>