On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> 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 >> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en > > 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 >> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ >> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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