[sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

[Sameer Verma]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:06 PM, rihoward1 at gmail.com
<rihoward1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sameer thanks for making the spreadsheet world  editable
> By the way how are you defining the following terms:-
>
> Stability
> Performance
> Child Utility
> Technical Utility
> Grown-up utility
> Lines of code


I'm not. I just pulled out a few items that came to me. Ideally, the
Sugar team should be making this list.


>
> Good definitions of these terms noted in the spreadsheet will reduce
> ambiguity.

Agreed. Like a good data dictionary.

Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/


> Nothing like ambiguity to cause misunderstanding.
>
>
>
> On Sep 21, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM, rihoward1 at gmail.com
>> <rihoward1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender
>>>>> <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In fact, there is a great deal of data from the field in the form of
>>>>>> the activity packs that Peru, Uruguay, et al. developed. These
>>>>>> collections have been vetted and tested extensively and have a
>>>>>> built-in community of support. They are learning-centric collections,
>>>>>> but presumably, those G1G1 purchasers who are interested in other
>>>>>> pursuits will run Fedora/GNOME or XP.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -walter
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not convinced that they are well-tested.  They included News
>>>>> Reader,
>>>>> which hasn't worked for the last several releases.  That doesn't
>>>>> suggest
>>>>> to
>>>>> me that their activities went through any kind of extensive testing
>>>>> before
>>>>> deployment.   They have since been tested in the field by children.  I
>>>>> *haven't* seen much feedback from kids yet.  At least not from South
>>>>> American and not any broad spectrum.
>>>>>
>>>>> ---Seth
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In an attempt to make the decision-making process more unbiased (or at
>>>> least more multi-criteria) I've put up a basic spreadsheet for a
>>>> scoring matrix at
>>>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en
>>>
>>> Well I logged in to google docs, but I cannot edit this spreadsheet.  I
>>> wanted to add Chat to the matrix as this activity is an extremely useful
>>> communication tool for both children and adults.  I know G1G1 users that
>>> spend at least 80% of their XO usage  with Chat and they have reported to
>>> me
>>> that they have observed children having a wonderful time using Chat to
>>> communicate with their friends even when their friends  were in the same
>>> room.
>>
>> I've made it world-editable. Alternatively, you can download the
>> spreadsheet and play with it in Excel or OpenOffice.
>>
>>>
>>> Gmail activity seems redundant as Gmail is reachable from Browse.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but it exists. Feel free to add as many activities as needed.
>>
>> Sameer
>>>>
>>>> In the spreadsheet, there are three main components. Column B has
>>>> factors such as stability, performance, etc to assess against. I just
>>>> made these up, but feel free to make your own. The weights (column C)
>>>> essentially defines the importance of each factor as a percentage of a
>>>> total of 100%. The rest of the columns are for each activity. Feel
>>>> free to add your own. Score them on a scale of 1 to 10. Each score
>>>> gets weighted and you'll see totals at the bottom. Sort for the totals
>>>> in Descending order and skim off the top 10.
>>>>
>>>> There you have it. Multi-criteria decision-making made simple.
>>>>
>>>> Sameer
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>>>> Associate Professor of Information Systems
>>>> San Francisco State University
>>>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>>>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>>>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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