Sameer thanks for making the spreadsheet world editable By the way how are you defining the following terms:-
Stability Performance Child Utility Technical Utility Grown-up utility Lines of code Good definitions of these terms noted in the spreadsheet will reduce ambiguity. Nothing like ambiguity to cause misunderstanding. On Sep 21, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> In fact, there is a great deal of data from the field in the >>>>> form of >>>>> the activity packs that Peru, Uruguay, et al. developed. These >>>>> collections have been vetted and tested extensively and have a >>>>> built-in community of support. They are learning-centric >>>>> collections, >>>>> but presumably, those G1G1 purchasers who are interested in other >>>>> pursuits will run Fedora/GNOME or XP. >>>>> >>>>> -walter >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm not convinced that they are well-tested. They included News >>>> Reader, >>>> which hasn't worked for the last several releases. That doesn't >>>> suggest >>>> to >>>> me that their activities went through any kind of extensive testing >>>> before >>>> deployment. They have since been tested in the field by >>>> children. I >>>> *haven't* seen much feedback from kids yet. At least not from >>>> South >>>> American and not any broad spectrum. >>>> >>>> ---Seth >>>> >>>> >>> >>> In an attempt to make the decision-making process more unbiased >>> (or at >>> least more multi-criteria) I've put up a basic spreadsheet for a >>> scoring matrix at >>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en >> >> Well I logged in to google docs, but I cannot edit this >> spreadsheet. I >> wanted to add Chat to the matrix as this activity is an extremely >> useful >> communication tool for both children and adults. I know G1G1 >> users that >> spend at least 80% of their XO usage with Chat and they have >> reported to me >> that they have observed children having a wonderful time using >> Chat to >> communicate with their friends even when their friends were in >> the same >> room. > > I've made it world-editable. Alternatively, you can download the > spreadsheet and play with it in Excel or OpenOffice. > >> >> Gmail activity seems redundant as Gmail is reachable from Browse. >> > > Yes, but it exists. Feel free to add as many activities as needed. > > Sameer >>> In the spreadsheet, there are three main components. Column B has >>> factors such as stability, performance, etc to assess against. I >>> just >>> made these up, but feel free to make your own. The weights >>> (column C) >>> essentially defines the importance of each factor as a percentage >>> of a >>> total of 100%. The rest of the columns are for each activity. Feel >>> free to add your own. Score them on a scale of 1 to 10. Each score >>> gets weighted and you'll see totals at the bottom. Sort for the >>> totals >>> in Descending order and skim off the top 10. >>> >>> There you have it. Multi-criteria decision-making made simple. >>> >>> Sameer >>> -- >>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >>> Associate Professor of Information Systems >>> San Francisco State University >>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA >>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ >>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devel mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open