On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Sameer Verma <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM, David Farning <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I think there are more "recommended" activities than fit at any one >>> time. They are chosen randomly from the list. As to how the list is >>> compiled, I do not know, but I believe that Etoys is already a >>> recommended activity. I'll double-check. >> >> Currently there is not a formal "recommended" policy. Basically, >> whenever I see a cool new activity I add it to the recommend list and >> remove an activity that has been around for awhile. I think Aleksey >> does the same. >> >> If anyone would like to create and maintain more formal "recommended" >> list it is very easy to create an activities.sl.o editor's account for >> them. >> >> david >> > > I had written about this a long time ago. My approach was to rank > activities based on a list of attributes (weighted scoring). The > activities with the highest attributes would be the ones installed. > The same approach could be used for "Recommended" activities. The > thread is at > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/grassroots/2008-September/000707.html > . The GoogleDocs spreadsheet is at > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en
If you are interested, the job of recommend list[1] maintainer is open. ASLO is getting 100,000 visits a month, doubling every three months, so the effect of your work would be rather widespread. david 1. http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/recommended > Sameer > >>> -walter >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Rita Freudenberg <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Walter Bender wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 5. Thanks to the efforts of Josh Williams, Aleksey Lim, and David >>>>> Farning, the new http://activities.sugarlabs.org site went on-line >>>>> over the weekend. The new look is clean and also in compliance with >>>>> Mozilla copy >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> I would like to know how the activities on the starting page are chosen. >>>> What does it require from an activity to be "recommended"? >>>> My question is not just out of curiosity, I would like to see Etoys there. >>>> So I would like to know if we could do anything to be considered a >>>> recommended activity? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Rita >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Rita Freudenberg >>>> Squeakland Foundation >>>> http://www.squeakland.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Walter Bender >>> Sugar Labs >>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
