On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 29.03.2010, at 12:51, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Having had some feedback on the proposal of shipping just 6 Activities >>> for SoaS 3 I'm modifying the proposal a little and increasing the >>> number to 10 [1]. Although this does come with some caveats and a >>> challenge to those out there that would like to see some more >>> included. >>> >>> So the original proposal was the following list of Activities: >>> - browse >>> - physics >>> - turtleart >>> - irc >>> - log >>> - terminal >>> >>> I'm proposing adding the following: >>> - Record >>> - Write >>> - Chat. >>> - Some sort of shareable game such as memorize >>> >>> The reason for the above 4 is that they are a great demonstration of >>> the sharing and media capabilities of sugar, which I believe are some >>> of its best features, but I am open to suggestions. >>> >>> So now to the caveat and challenge. They will only be included if they >>> are working, tested and are stable as I believe it only makes the >>> Sugar platform look bad if they don't work well. The challenge is for >>> everyone in the community to assist in making sure they are working, >>> tested and stable. If ultimately they aren't included its everyone to >>> blame because they weren't. I believe I may know what the issue with >>> Write is so I'll be looking that with the hope of it being fixed this >>> week. I look forward to seeing reports of them working well and being >>> tested as well as patches and bug reports when they do not :-) >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> [1] I could possibly increase this to 12 if my arm is twisted enough >>> on the same proviso that they are stable, tested and are a good >>> demonstration of the Sugar platform, work well on a netbook platform >>> and XOs >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SoaS mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >> >> Peter, I have to ask again why you do not want to include Etoys. It's >> working, tested, stable, and includes examples that emphasize Sugar as a >> creative learning platform (more so than any of the activities you do >> propose to include). >> >> - Bert - > > +1 > > Also, as much as I would hate to see it off the list, Record is not > stable enough right now to consider for v3. Until we sort out our > various gst/alsa issues, we need to stay away from all of the > activities that use the camera.
Yes, that's basically my thoughts and understandings at the moment. I believe it was waiting for the gstcamerabin plugin to go upstream to make things simpler and non dependant on binary bits. That is now in Fedora 12 and 13 so I was hoping we might have something that was working before long. It seems to be an Activity the kids love. > That said, the 95% of all activities that are pure Python/Sugar should > run anywhere. So we have a lot to chose from. I'll make further > comments on Mel's criteria page. Thanks. Peter _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
