<div dir="ltr">FYI,    I made a few quick edits...  organized it a bit more, made a glossary tab/page (to define those confusing terms). I also started a list of 'checklist items', which Activities need before they can become part of the 'G1G1v2 Activity Pack'.  (I didn't know the specific details, but put down some ideas.... ) If the list of activities gets too long, we may think about pivoting the table around... but it's going to be difficult with a long criteria list. -iXo <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 13:41, Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:06 PM, <a href="mailto:rihoward1@gmail.com">rihoward1@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:rihoward1@gmail.com">rihoward1@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Sameer thanks for making the spreadsheet world  editable > By the way how are you defining the following terms:- > > Stability > Performance > Child Utility > Technical Utility > Grown-up utility > Lines of code </div>I'm not. I just pulled out a few items that came to me. Ideally, the Sugar team should be making this list. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > > Good definitions of these terms noted in the spreadsheet will reduce > ambiguity. </div>Agreed. Like a good data dictionary. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA <a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a> <a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/</a> > Nothing like ambiguity to cause misunderstanding. > > > > On Sep 21, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM, <a href="mailto:rihoward1@gmail.com">rihoward1@gmail.com</a> >> <<a href="mailto:rihoward1@gmail.com">rihoward1@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <<a href="mailto:seth@laptop.org">seth@laptop.org</a>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender >>>>> <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> In fact, there is a great deal of data from the field in the form of >>>>>> the activity packs that Peru, Uruguay, et al. developed. These >>>>>> collections have been vetted and tested extensively and have a >>>>>> built-in community of support. They are learning-centric collections, >>>>>> but presumably, those G1G1 purchasers who are interested in other >>>>>> pursuits will run Fedora/GNOME or XP. >>>>>> >>>>>> -walter >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> ---Seth >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> In an attempt to make the decision-making process more unbiased (or at >>>> least more multi-criteria) I've put up a basic spreadsheet for a >>>> scoring matrix at >>>> <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en" target="_blank">http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en</a> >>> >>> Well I logged in to google docs, but I cannot edit this spreadsheet.  I >>> wanted to add Chat to the matrix as this activity is an extremely useful >>> communication tool for both children and adults.  I know G1G1 users that >>> spend at least 80% of their XO usage  with Chat and they have reported to >>> me >>> that they have observed children having a wonderful time using Chat to >>> communicate with their friends even when their friends  were in the same >>> room. >> >> I've made it world-editable. Alternatively, you can download the >> spreadsheet and play with it in Excel or OpenOffice. >> >>> >>> Gmail activity seems redundant as Gmail is reachable from Browse. >>> >> >> Yes, but it exists. Feel free to add as many activities as needed. >> >> Sameer >>>> >>>> In the spreadsheet, there are three main components. Column B has >>>> factors such as stability, performance, etc to assess against. I just >>>> made these up, but feel free to make your own. The weights (column C) >>>> essentially defines the importance of each factor as a percentage of a >>>> total of 100%. The rest of the columns are for each activity. Feel >>>> free to add your own. Score them on a scale of 1 to 10. Each score >>>> gets weighted and you'll see totals at the bottom. Sort for the totals >>>> in Descending order and skim off the top 10. >>>> >>>> There you have it. Multi-criteria decision-making made simple. >>>> >>>> Sameer >>>> -- >>>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >>>> Associate Professor of Information Systems >>>> San Francisco State University >>>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA >>>> <a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a> >>>> <a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/</a> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Devel mailing list >>>> <a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a> >>>> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a> _______________________________________________ </div></div>Grassroots mailing list <a href="mailto:Grassroots@lists.laptop.org">Grassroots@lists.laptop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots</a> </blockquote></div> </div>