[OLPC-SF] How About an "Activity-a-thon?"

[Aaron D Borden]

I love the idea! It's also an opportunity for bug bashing (identifying bugs in activities) and updating any documentation or curricula. The ratings for activities would be useful to prioritize big fixes or which python activities to port to Sugarizer.

I don't know that we could commit to the October timeframe, but we should figure out if/when this event would be possible.

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Aaron D Borden
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On Aug 15, 2018 7:07 PM, Caryl Bigenho <caryl at laptop.org> wrote:

Hi Sameer, Aaron,  and folks at OLPC-SF!


You have heard about "hack-a-thons", how about an Activity-a-thon? I was thinking this could be done in the manner of the OLPC-SF summits in the past, but instead of speakers, we could have a fun and productive time playing with apps on XOs and other devices. Here is the rationale...


There are hundreds of apps on the Sugar Labs wiki, but only a small subset of them are actually in use. Among those that are not commonly used, there are undoubtedly some hidden "gems." At the Activity-a-thon, we would need as many working XOs as we could muster and people (of all ages) to test  as many Activities as possible. There would need to be people to install the Activities on the XOs and other people to actually put them through their paces and rate them in terms of both educational value and entertainment value.


Ideally, each Activity tested would be tried by at least 3 different people, possibly one of them a child, who would fill out the ratings and recommend whether or not it is one that should be looked at for updating and possibly moved into other versions such as IIAB and Sugarizer. Two votes out of the 3 would get an Activity into the "chosen" category. The information gathered would be valuable for the education team and for people working with IIAB, Sugarizer, and Primero1°.


OLPC-SF has the experience, expertise and venue to be able to undertake a project such as this. Perhaps it could be held the Friday and Saturday after the GSoC Mentor's Summit which is on Oct 12-14. That would put the Activity-a-thon on Fri Oct 19 and Sat Oct 20. That is probably a week after your normal meeting date, but would let OLPC people attending the GSoC event to participate in the Activity-a-thon too.


I can help (from afar) with the planning of the actual Activity testing  and probably bring a few XOs, but Sameer and the folks at OLPC-SF know from past experience how to make something like this happen.


What do you all think?


Caryl (aka GrannieB)

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