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

[Tony Anderson]

I have installed the schoolserver version of ASLO at 
http://tony37.github.io/Sugaractivities. The main page has several 
links. The first is a readme which explains the website. The important 
links are GTK3 and GTK3x. These are activities which have been ported to 
GTK3. The collection in GTK3 works on Sugar with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The 
collection in GTK3x are activities which do not work with Ubuntu 18.04. 
GTK2 is a collection of activities which have not been ported to GTK3 
but which work on an XO (build 13.2.9, Sugar 0.112). GTK2x is a 
collection of activities which do not work. The collections Github and 
Githubx are activities which have been installed in the github/Sugarlabs 
repository but have not been converted to GTK3. As before the GTK2x 
activities do not work.

The link to most activities give a brief description of the activity. 
The activities which do not work have a 'note' link which gives a brief 
description of the problem. Many of these activities fail from what 
appears to be a relatively simple problem. Some of the activities have a 
'help' link which provides detailed documentation from the Help 
activity. Similar documentation could be supplied for many activities 
from the 'home' page of the activity in ASLO or the detail description.

There are in total 526 activities. I have spent two months downloading 
and testing all of these activities (the GTK2 activities on an XO-1.5, 
the GTK3 activities on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system). There are several 
activities which have been worked on recently by James Cameron in 
connection with GSOC '18. These need to be updated in the 
Sugaractivities repository.

Testing of these activities is limited to using Browse to download and 
install the activity and verifying that the activity launches 
successfully (no 'failed to start' message).

Tony


On Thursday, 16 August, 2018 07:05 PM, Aaron D Borden wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Human and hacker
> Aaron D Borden
> Sent from my mobile
>
> 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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