On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > 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/ >
I've added a new set of factors to the spreadsheet which now reflects the list from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_an_activity#Include_your_Activity_in_the_core.3F This list is row 41 and below. Before I go on and add more to it, is anyone interested in building this further? 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/ _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open