EduJAM/2011/Brainstorm

Bug reports from Uruguayan teachers on Dextrose 1

• SocialCalc activity doesn't work (and you can't download)
• Maps activity doesn't work (doesn't work and you cannot download it)
• When saving some files from activities those files later disappear (FIXED!)
• The Flash? activity requires too much time and not always the installation is successful and you have to do it many times to get it right.
• Sometimes the cursor is unresponsive after flashing
• Technical problems that the machine presents... they deliver the laptop but it takes too long before they get it back.
• Technical service will be done after June
• The activity that allows you to download videos and watch them later doesn't work
• Wine does not work any more...
• Etoys projects don't download from squeakland.org
• Problems with Vascoles?
• Division especial de detectives?

Bug reports on the Olidata (JumPC) build

• We don't know what Sugar version we're using
• We can't read PDF files
• It's really hard to connect to Internet, the instructions that we got from portalceibal don't work
• We cannot download Browse 108 version

Various complaints

• Sugar has many problems
• It doesn't allow to work fluently
• Its troublesome
• It's unfinished
• The performance of Sugar is ???
• The home material got lost because the journal didn't save it
• TuxPaint, PhotoToon, Firefox, Audacity... don't save to journal!
• Several activities don't have writing permissions, you need an expert to save a file. The procedure to save it would be through command line (not always successful)
• Teachers are opposed to the XO
• Sugar is not Free Software because of the blocking system?
• The blocking system makes the XO being delivered in Urugugay not

fulfill the liberties of Free Software

• Some things that are considered defects of Sugar are defects of the deployment in Plan Ceibal
• The security system of the XO causes regressions in Sugar
• There are huge efforts, but insufficient to sugarize activities...
• We would like to get involved in sugarizing more activities
• In general, the mesh network sucks (sit). It interferes with collaboration more than it helps.
• We need a technical solution on the mesh because it's a very powerful resource
• Some activities don't work well, for example eToys.
• The activities are unstable when we're trying to do complicated things
• Sharing objects can lead EToys to present a message that recommends quitting
• Maybe it's me, but the machine perhaps is tired and gives up on me :-)
• I work with eToys/Scratch in Windows and it works well...
• Version 1.4 of Scratch saves to the journal finally
• The Record activity should allow modifying the time of recording, because it creates huge files
• We'd like to add some things, such as video editing... is this related to permissions?!?
• Teachers want the mesh to work so they could do more collaborative work