I would find ASLO more useful if it had a "Search all" feature that allowed people to find<br>* unmaintained or dormantly-maintained but working activities<br>* activities that can be freely distributed but are not [confirmed to be] under a free-software license<br>
* links to activities that are freely available online (somewhere) but may not be freely distributable (from an aslo server)<br><br>Excluding or obfuscating popular activities only makes ASLO a less handy service.<br><br>
At any rate, at the point where the ASLO software says to an uploader "that file already exists in our databsae" it should be able to show that person the metadata related to the file: who has uploaded it, why it is not visible, &c.<br>
<br>SJ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Gary Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com">garycmartin@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>But I don't think is a good idea add a activity without a maintainer.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>+1</div><div><br></div><div>Activities without maintainers seem like a spiral to the bottom of the quality bucket <span>- I'd personally not want to recommend the ASLO site to a teacher if we were knowingly promoting and uploading unmaintained activities. As an Open Source license (required by ASLO) allows anyone to potentially <span>pick up maintenance, perhaps ASLO could be tweaked to hide all activities without a confirmed, named, maintainer by default?</span></span></div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>--Gary</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Gonzalo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@somosazucar.org" target="_blank">sebastian@somosazucar.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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    Actually if the license permits it, there isnt a necessity to await
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                                It's ok uploading those to aslo, if they
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                  <div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt">Ok. The
                    "importants" are in ASLO.. maybe there are some that
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