On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 02:10, Jim Simmons<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Enthusiastic +1 But what about users without easy internet access? Regards, Tomeu > 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 > _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
