On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
I'm not. I just pulled out a few items that came to me. Ideally, the Sugar team should be making this list. > > Good definitions of these terms noted in the spreadsheet will reduce > ambiguity. Agreed. Like a good data dictionary. 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/ > 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, [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