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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I have installed the schoolserver
version of ASLO at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tony37.github.io/Sugaractivities">http://tony37.github.io/Sugaractivities</a>. 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.<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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). <br>
<br>
Tony<br>
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On Thursday, 16 August, 2018 07:05 PM, Aaron D Borden wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I don't know that we could commit to the October
timeframe, but we should figure out if/when this event would be
possible.</p>
<p dir="ltr">--<br>
Human and hacker<br>
Aaron D Borden<br>
Sent from my mobile</p>
<div class="quote">On Aug 15, 2018 7:07 PM, Caryl Bigenho
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:caryl@laptop.org"><caryl@laptop.org></a> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Hi Sameer, Aaron,
and folks at OLPC-SF!</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">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...</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">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.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">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. <span style="font-size:12pt">The information
gathered would be valuable for the education team and
for people working with IIAB, Sugarizer, and
Primero1°. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span
style="font-size:12pt">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.</span></p>
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(from afar) </span>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. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span
style="font-size:12pt">What do you all think?</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span
style="font-size:12pt">Caryl (aka GrannieB)</span></p>
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