Here are some comments on the Sugar Camp Brainstorm session. Sugarcamp (http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_proposal) had a link to:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mchua/proposals#Sugarcamp_brainstorm > SugarLabs the easiest open education/educational technology > community for people (especially new volunteers) to contribute to. That is good and needed goal. My experience in trying to simply take my existing content (http://emle.sf.net) and package it as a library content bundle indicates to me that it is not easy for a new outsider to contribute. Emle works on Firefox. I installed Sugar on Ubuntu and tried Emle on the Sugar Browse activity which worked. Then I packaged Emle according to the documentation on the OLPC and Sugar Labs sites. The problem came when I tried to test my packaging. The issues for new outsiders: - There is documentation and notes that assume an XO machine vs Sugar running on an Ubuntu system. - What is supposed to be the same and what is expected to be different? - Hardware issues one could assume. - The opening page on XO is "OLPC Library" vs "about:blank" on Ubuntu. - Was the opening page a bug or an improperly installed Sugar? - Where does one ask these questions? - Where are the pointers to the proper bug tracking system? - Where is the documentation that tells one how to determine version information. - This is a rapidly changing system. - There is a lack of clear documentation on naming conventions. - Where is the documentation that identifies what specifications are trying to be implemented in a specific runtime version of sugar. - The multi-platform (XO, Ubuntu, Windows emulation) nature adds complexity. - Adding library collections will likely be the area for which the most outside contributions will be made (vs Activities, Sugar core code or Linux drivers). - This mass of library collection contributors will not need to have an XO machine to create new content nor to modify existing content. -- C.W.Holeman II | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Cwhii To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion. I am very thankful. The Mythical Man-Month Epilogue/F.P.Brooks _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
