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

[Corey McGuire]

Sounds like an OLPC Arcade.

If this interests anyone, I have a number of maker oriented social/co-work
spaces in the Bay Area, all of them education oriented, which could be
remarkable venues for this (or these) event(s).

Humanmade.org (SF, like an opensource techshop, opening in November)
TheMade.org (OAKLAND, a museum for game art and development education)
OmniCommons.org (OAKLAND, home of Sudoroom, Counter Culture Labs, and Food
Not Bombs)
Noisebridge.net (SF, home of Unityversity, democatization of game
development)

Let me know if any of these venues interest you.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 10:05 AM Aaron D Borden <adborden at live.com> 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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