Core Activities - Bundled Packs discussion

[Ixo X oxI]

Michael,

I took some of your thoughts... and the 'global' problem of  no activities
shipped with XOs. ... ran with it a bit further. . . . :-)

Thinking along the lines, the set of 'recommended' activities per deployment
location are being discussed informally, without much tracking or
public-wide awareness... or input..

I couldn't find a good list of activities bundled for each deployment, so I
created a wiki page..
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peru_bundled_activities
and
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/G1G1_bundled_activities

All from some 'inspirational' text I added on page. . .

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC#Upstream_Free_Software_Projects

*"For each deployment location, OLPC staff will also work with local
administrators and volunteers to develop a consistent set of 'core bundled
activities'. To be installed on all base-software laptops deployed in that
area. For examples, see Peru bundled
activities<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peru_bundled_activities>and G1G1
bundled activities<http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=G1G1_bundled_activities&action=edit>
."*

I used the term 'bundled' until there's consensus on terminology to use.
I've read other terms such as 'core' (see wiki category) and 'activity
packs' (latest discussion on devel list).

I especially see this type of resource developing for coming up with a set
of activities for the G1G1 users, planning and looking forward to the
future... where some folks update to Update.1-700 (or newer), and get the
interesting surprise of no activities and no easy method of downloading
them.

Thoughts or continuations of these ideas? :-)
-Ixo

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:

> Dear devel,
>
> While drafting release notes for Update.1 RC2 (signed update.1-699), we
> realized that we need a good story about what we want the ecosystem of
> activity and library packs (for use with the customization key [1]) to
> be.
>
> The rough sense emerging from the folks I've interviewed so far
> (dgilmore, kimquirk, walter, cjb) is that:
>
>  * activity packs are collections maintained by public maintainers
>
>  * people running deployments are responsible for choosing activities
>    that work for them and we should assist in this process
>
>  * for the moment, any activity packs that we provide are just
>    conveniences and advice to them on how to get started
>
>  * however, we should do our best to keep authoritative versions of all
>    activities we encounter and to encourage other folks to mirror this
>    content
>
>  * to the extent that we are able, we should record the compatibility
>    matrix between builds and activities
>
> However, there are several questions that these rough thoughts do not
> yet address:
>
>  * what assistance are we obligated to provide to deployments?
>
>  * if we discover notable flaws (security, legal, "objectionable
>    content") in bundles that a deployment is using, what should we do?
>
>  * in particular, whose responsibility is it to initiate communication
>    of this sort?
>
>  * (and others not listed here)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Michael
>
> [1]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_key
>
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