Edward, I guess we have a Bible reading Activity (Sword?) and a Qur'an reading Activity somewhere, and while it would make sense to get these on ASLO I don't see that they belong as one of the pre-installed Activities on SoaS. As for a selection of literature, I see two problems:
1). How to make the selection? 2). How to communicate that this selection is just a drop in the ocean of what is available for free? Now if you install _Get Internet Archive Books_ you can type in the word "Bible", "Qur'an", and even "Koran" and get a list of hundreds of books including and about the Bible and the Qur'an, in several languages, including Arabic. For the Bible you can get several versions of the book itself in several languages, plus tracts condemning slavery that quote from the Bible, tracts condemning Abolitionists quoting from the Bible, etc. Add _Read Etexts_ to Sugar and download another 28,000 or so books, including the Bible and the Qur'an, an English translation of the Mahabharata, etc. At one time I did favor getting some books added to the Journal, maybe something non-controversial like an Oz book, etc. Now I think we have to make teachers and learners understand just how easy it is to get their own books in the Journal. I'm blowing my own horn here, but I do think what I have created gives us something good to sell. James Simmons > Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:03:24 -0700 > From: Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] The next Step: v2 > Roadmap > To: Sebastian Dziallas <[email protected]> > Cc: Sugar Labs Marketing <[email protected]>, Sugar Devel > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Sebastian Dziallas<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> so here it is, the Sugar on a Stick v2 Roadmap: >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Roadmap >> >> Feedback is appreciated, and as we've just entered brainstorming phase, >> please go ahead and shoot your ideas! :) > > I would like to see the Bible (Tanakh and New Testament) and Qur'an > included, and a selection of world literature. > >> More to come... >> >> --Sebastian >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > > > -- > Silent Thunder (??/???????????????/????????????? ?) is my name > And Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. > http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
