Looking better all the time. For the moment, the site suffers from being ghettoized from the rest of the Sugar Labs site; you can get in, but you can't get out - there's no Sugar Labs navigation. Direct links coming in mean the rest of the site is invisible. To fix this (and the other sections too, it's not a problem specific to Activities), Christian has promised me he will have the sitewide persistent navbar soon, he's super-occupied with the new baby :-)
As search is local, it's good the search bar indicates in explicitly. I agree with most of what James said. I can add: the site actually fulfills a marketing function, unrelated to downloads: it's a quick way for someone checking out the project to see how much and what kinds of content are available, if the ecosystem is active, and so on. A few years ago, from reading magazines and blogs, I was aware that Firefox had a vibrant add-on offer months before I ever downloaded one. So yes, there should be a count somewhere which instantly communicates the richness. The non US-en bug is still in effect; French users and I suspect other locales see no content whatsoever, which to my mind is a bigger problem than which Activities to feature. There is a language selector which allows magically populating the empty site, but it's practically unfindable. I would suggest disabling the language selector if that bug can't be easily fixed (upstream). GCompris is fine where it is; it is very well known in Europe and elsewhere and has a five year headstart on us in word-of-mouth and credibility with teachers. Although marketing/branding of GCompris has been minimalist, it has a well-deserved reputation for quality. I'm very excited GCompris is arriving in Sugar and I hope collaboration will work in those Activities too. I disagree that common baseline Activities should be absent; a common scenario could be replacing an Activity removed by a Learner. Forgive my ignorance, but is the OLPC notion of a "set" applicable? is it possible to tag some Activities as "baseline", to have section for them (can an Activity be in more than one section)? I agree though that they shouldn't be featured unless a major upgrade is available. As well, there are more than one reading Activities; the logical place to locate them is here, but some parents or teachers on a Sugar learning curve may believe that baseline Read "needs" to be uninstalled to install Read eTexts. We need a short intro explaining the install procedure (it took me days to figure out how to do it). I had mentioned this a while back but I don't remember if someone besides me had volunteered to look at that thanks. Sean On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Aleksey Lim<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:09:56PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: >> Aleksey, >> >> That will teach me to open my mouth. > :) > >> At the moment the only Activities >> I'm really familiar with are my own, Read, and your Library Activity >> which isn't finished (but would definitely be worthy otherwise). I'll >> have to add some more Activities to my XO and give them a try. Any >> suggestions on what might be worth a recommended status will be welcomed. > well, we have not so much sugar activities on ASLO(I hope just for now) > ..and I guess we should add some kind of filter to separate native sugar > activities from GCompris, now we have 40 vs. 100 :) > >> Your other ideas sound good, but I still think we need some highly >> visible counts in there. As someone once said, "You gotta tell 'em to >> sell 'em!" > the problem is - we depend on upstream AMO code, so patching ASLO code a lot > will mean problems while merging new AMO commits (we can suggest our changes > directly to AMO but thats another story). > >> >> Thanks, >> >> James Simmons >> >> >> Aleksey Lim wrote: >>> You are an editor now and can do the best on >>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/editors/featured ;) >>> >>> And after fixing #948 all featured activities will appear on main page >>> and per category main pages. >>> >>> >>>> I also question the category GCompris. I understand these Activities >>>> are related to each other, but the relationship would not be >>>> meaningful to a teacher or a student. >>>> >>> fixed > > -- > Aleksey > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
