XO 1.5 Add Activities (GCompris)

[reuben]

Please add:

SocialCalc

Get Books: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/GetBooks-4.xo

WikibrowseEN http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/enwiki/WikipediaEN-4.xo

WikibrowseES http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/eswiki/Wikipedia-10.xo

GCompris

[cjb]

(Reuben, FWIW, you could do this yourself -- the activities in the build are pulled from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/11.0 )

[reuben]

Great. I'll do that now. I have programs people would like added to the Gnome side, how should I go about that?

[cjb]

Replying to reuben:

Great. I'll do that now. I have programs people would like added to the Gnome side, how should I go about that?

I think just mentioning their Fedora package names here is fine.

[cjb]

Done in os53. (Although you didn't seem to add gcompris..)

[reuben]

In regards to GCompris, I couldn't find the full bundle (1) equivalent on ASLO and I didn't have time to test to the WLO link below on Sugar 0.84.

(1) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GCompris#The_GCompris_bundles

If anyone knows of the equivalent on ASLO, I'd love to know.

[Quozl]

Tested on os54 (due to the test in build next action), indeed GCompris is not present, pushing back to add to build.

[cjb]

I don't think the gcompris bundles are sugarized (journal/collaboration support), which suggests to me that we shouldn't be including them by default in Sugar.

[dsd]

agreed. should we close this ticket?

[reuben]

disagree

I'd like to point out that CJB's set of criteria does not include sugarization (1). I also do not believe the test for inclusion should be: is this program sugarized or not but rather does the activity provide increased value to the XO. However, I realize "value" is subjective.

If sugarization is a requirement then why are we including Scratch? Scratch, by the way, is by far one of the most often demoed activities we have on the XO.

Reasons to include GCompris (2) :

-It was one of the activities most discussed and requested in the respective thread on devel.

-Our largest deployment includes it in their build. Which means over one third of the XO-1 laptops built uses, GCompris.

-On the first page of 20 popular activities at ASLO, a GCompris activity is listed 6 times(3).

(1) http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-November/026486.html

(2) http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/collection/gcompris

(3) http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/browse/type:1/cat:all?sort=popular

[Quozl]

Tested on os64 that one can visit activities.sugarlabs.org, download and use a random GCompris based activity. Chose GComprisMazeInvisible-12.xo. Worked fine. No collaboration features present.

[Quozl]

Review. We're lacking direction on this one, I suspect.

[Quozl]

Review again. I don't think this needs addressing before next release.

[cjb]

Going to close this one. Deployments are welcome to ship GCompris activities, but I'd rather not include activities that have no journal or collaboration integration, and no way to gain them, in the default build.