Colors! is far superior to Paint. Colors! is a wonderful activity. A lot of fun and can be used for learning how to paint. The replay mechanism is a great learning tool. Using Colors! in shared mode is a great example of the potential of collaboration for aiding creativity.
On Sep 19, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > Thanks a lot for the input on which activities to ship! > > Here is the list of activities I will to management as my > suggestion on > what we ship. > > Please help test these! See the end of the e-mail for instructions. > > The list I recommend is essentially the G1G1 activities (kudos to the > team who chose the first set!). In addition to those I list a few > which > got repeated votes (except Chess and Sudoku which are a concession > to SJ ;-) > > Original G1G1 activities: > Browse > Read > Write > Paint > Record > TamTam Jam, Mini, on fence: Synthlab, Edit, > Chat > Pippy > Etoys > Turtle Art > Calculate > Measure > Distance > Memorize > Terminal > Log > Analyze > > New ones: > Help > Implode > Speak > Maze > SimCity > Scratch > Xaos > StarChart > Moon > GCompris Chess > GCompris Sudoku > > The only significant change from the original G1G1 set is the > TamTam. I > think we should include 2 not 4 so as not to over weight them against > other activities. > > Let me know if anyone has comments on that (Jean can you live with > that?). > > Not all of these are sure to make it. On the other hand it's very > unlikely that anything else will make it. So if you have an urgent > request or a specific concern please speak up now. > > Of course, anyone can download additional activities so even if an > activity is not on this list, it still attracts a lot of users. > > We need help testing these with the latest 8.2 image. We plan to > make a > release candidate today and if it passes smoke test we will add the > activities and content to create a signed release candidate on Monday! > > Developers, > > Please reply with the final version and URL of each activity which we > should include in the image. Each one must pass final test and have an > active and reachable developer to make the final list. > > Morgan, > > can you make sure we have a contact e-mail and name on each of these? > Also, let me know if you any of them are orphaned or not well > maintained. > > All, > > Please test them all one more time let us know how it goes. > > I want to know if each of these passes the tests described here: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.0#Activities > > Please create a new test case for any activity that needs one. > > To do that, go to this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Form:Test_case > and entering Tests/Activities/nameofactivity to create a new test > case. > Then choose activity from the drop down and you can just paste in the > steps test from above for a start. > > Then you can add a test result by clicking on the "+" sign next to the > test case (it takes a little while for them to show up after > creation). > > You can also e-mail comments or test results back to this list. > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
