<div dir="ltr">FYI,<br> I made a few quick edits... organized it a bit more, made a glossary tab/page (to define those confusing terms).<br><br>I also started a list of 'checklist items', which Activities need before they can become part of the 'G1G1v2 Activity Pack'. (I didn't know the specific details, but put down some ideas.... )<br>
<br>If the list of activities gets too long, we may think about pivoting the table around... but it's going to be difficult with a long criteria list.<br><br>-iXo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 13:41, Sameer Verma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:06 PM, <a href="mailto:rihoward1@gmail.com">rihoward1@gmail.com</a><br>
<<a href="mailto:rihoward1@gmail.com">rihoward1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Sameer thanks for making the spreadsheet world editable<br>
> By the way how are you defining the following terms:-<br>
><br>
> Stability<br>
> Performance<br>
> Child Utility<br>
> Technical Utility<br>
> Grown-up utility<br>
> Lines of code<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>I'm not. I just pulled out a few items that came to me. Ideally, the<br>
Sugar team should be making this list.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<br>
><br>
> Good definitions of these terms noted in the spreadsheet will reduce<br>
> ambiguity.<br>
<br>
</div>Agreed. Like a good data dictionary.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
Sameer<br>
--<br>
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>
San Francisco State University<br>
San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br>
<a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br>
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<br>
<br>
> Nothing like ambiguity to cause misunderstanding.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sep 21, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:<br>
><br>
>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM, <a href="mailto:rihoward1@gmail.com">rihoward1@gmail.com</a><br>
>> <<a href="mailto:rihoward1@gmail.com">rihoward1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <<a href="mailto:seth@laptop.org">seth@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender<br>
>>>>> <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> In fact, there is a great deal of data from the field in the form of<br>
>>>>>> the activity packs that Peru, Uruguay, et al. developed. These<br>
>>>>>> collections have been vetted and tested extensively and have a<br>
>>>>>> built-in community of support. They are learning-centric collections,<br>
>>>>>> but presumably, those G1G1 purchasers who are interested in other<br>
>>>>>> pursuits will run Fedora/GNOME or XP.<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> -walter<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> I'm not convinced that they are well-tested. They included News<br>
>>>>> Reader,<br>
>>>>> which hasn't worked for the last several releases. That doesn't<br>
>>>>> suggest<br>
>>>>> to<br>
>>>>> me that their activities went through any kind of extensive testing<br>
>>>>> before<br>
>>>>> deployment. They have since been tested in the field by children. I<br>
>>>>> *haven't* seen much feedback from kids yet. At least not from South<br>
>>>>> American and not any broad spectrum.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> ---Seth<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> In an attempt to make the decision-making process more unbiased (or at<br>
>>>> least more multi-criteria) I've put up a basic spreadsheet for a<br>
>>>> scoring matrix at<br>
>>>> <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en" target="_blank">http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> Well I logged in to google docs, but I cannot edit this spreadsheet. I<br>
>>> wanted to add Chat to the matrix as this activity is an extremely useful<br>
>>> communication tool for both children and adults. I know G1G1 users that<br>
>>> spend at least 80% of their XO usage with Chat and they have reported to<br>
>>> me<br>
>>> that they have observed children having a wonderful time using Chat to<br>
>>> communicate with their friends even when their friends were in the same<br>
>>> room.<br>
>><br>
>> I've made it world-editable. Alternatively, you can download the<br>
>> spreadsheet and play with it in Excel or OpenOffice.<br>
>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Gmail activity seems redundant as Gmail is reachable from Browse.<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> Yes, but it exists. Feel free to add as many activities as needed.<br>
>><br>
>> Sameer<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> In the spreadsheet, there are three main components. Column B has<br>
>>>> factors such as stability, performance, etc to assess against. I just<br>
>>>> made these up, but feel free to make your own. The weights (column C)<br>
>>>> essentially defines the importance of each factor as a percentage of a<br>
>>>> total of 100%. The rest of the columns are for each activity. Feel<br>
>>>> free to add your own. Score them on a scale of 1 to 10. Each score<br>
>>>> gets weighted and you'll see totals at the bottom. Sort for the totals<br>
>>>> in Descending order and skim off the top 10.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> There you have it. Multi-criteria decision-making made simple.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Sameer<br>
>>>> --<br>
>>>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>
>>>> Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>
>>>> San Francisco State University<br>
>>>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br>
>>>> <a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br>
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