ultimately, the question is: are there (or not) Activities common to every, or nearly every instance of Sugar?
Browse Read Write etc. Sean On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Gary C Martin<[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 Jun 2009, at 18:24, James Simmons wrote: > >> Martin, >> >> I phrased that poorly. A kid might care that James Simmons wrote >> Read Etexts. He probably won't care if James Simmons is a part of >> Sugar Labs, or part of the community, or if it was part of GCompris, >> or if we consider Read Etexts part of Glucose, Sucrose, Fructose, etc. >> >> If a kid accidentally removes the Moon Activity and wants it back he >> might look in Math and Science or he might look in Pre-Installed. >> It should be listed in both places. > > I know what you meant about a "core" or "pre-Installed" category, but > this is going to break so fast, actually already broken. Different > distros are bundling different activities, some more some less, it's > their call. I think David Van Assche mentioned getting 50+ Activities > in the latest openSUSE image; and I'm sure school deployments will > choose their own Activity sets. > > --Gary > >> As far as Dominick's vs. Costco, I enjoy the time I spend at Costco >> and hate the time I spend at Dominick's. A good taxonomy would >> encourage a kid to explore the site and see what's available. A >> poor one would make him feel like I do on Sunday afternoons, >> wondering why canned tomatoes are in a totally different aisle than >> other canned vegetables, or why Pita bread isn't with the rest of >> the bread, or why Blue or Feta cheese isn't with the rest of the >> cheese in the Dairy section, etc. >> >> James Simmons >> >> >> Martin Dengler wrote: >>> >>>> Other than that, does any kid or teacher care who maintains an >>>> Activity? >>>> >>> >>> Clearly you view the answer as "no" (I think in general, the right >>> answer is "not unless they can get something out of that person", >>> which is a distinct possibility in FOSS-land, so actually I think the >>> answer should be "they should because it can help them"). I don't >>> know what point you're making, expect possibly "we needn't care about >>> aslo's coherency for anyone other than 'learners'". >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
