[olpc-nz] Testing summary - Auckland 14 November 2009

[Tabitha Roder]

Testing summary - Auckland 14 November 2009

Tested foodforceII on EEE701 (Ubuntu 9.1, Sugar 0.86.2) - could play
but could not read any of the labels as too small. Successfully built
utilities and kept people alive and well.

Tested Memorize-28 on 2 XO 1.0 machines, Sugar 0.82, could not share
game properly via mesh-1 as each machine thought it was the other ones
turn. Found bug #9395 and added comments.

Tested Speak-9 on XO 1.0 machine with Serbian native. Used diacritic
marks (e.g. ž  and ć) and found some words pronounced correctly, some
not. Still impressed at its capabilities.

Had an early childhood teacher with me (Serbian) who wanted a lot of
direction in how do I make the XO work, but despite that came  up with
great uses for XO with young children. When I showed her memorize and
how to create your own, I only showed her writing words in, she
immediately wanted to know about speaking them and liked the idea of
adding pictures. Also showed TamTam Mini (as also good for young
children) and she was curious as to why not all keys gave sound (some
have different pitch). Looking at having a nine year old come teach
Sugar at an early childhood centre using a mix of XOs and EEEs running
Sugar in Ubuntu.

Had teacher of teachers there too who is going to show his student
teachers the XOs and Sugar on a stick. Talk got awfully academic until
we distracted him with actually using the XOs.

Found that EEEs running Sugar in Ubuntu don't have working arrow keys.
This makes some activities impossible to play (like maze). This could
relate to tickets #1075 or #342. Not yet resolved for either of our
EEEs.

alt-tab doesn't work on this EEE to switch between applications, this
doesn't work in regular ubuntu, but at least there we can use the
mouse to switch application. We can't get out of sugar except by
closing it completely. Is it possible to have a minimise button in
sugar?

Tabitha