[Grassroots-l] [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org>  
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender  
>> <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> 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

Well I logged in to google docs, but I cannot edit this spreadsheet.   
I wanted to add Chat to the matrix as this activity is an extremely  
useful communication tool for both children and adults.  I know G1G1  
users that spend at least 80% of their XO usage  with Chat and they  
have reported to me that they have observed children having a  
wonderful time using Chat to communicate with their friends even when  
their friends  were in the same room.

Gmail activity seems redundant as Gmail is reachable from Browse.

>
> 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/
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