On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > BTW, the spreadsheet is at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en
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