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==High Impact Tasks==

==High Impact Tasks==

These are tasks which will have a big impact on Sugar deployments.  This is your chance to affect hundreds, if not thousands of children in the developing world!  This section will be updated frequently to feature the most urgent work the Activity Team has to do.

These are tasks which will have a big impact on Sugar deployments.  This is your chance to affect thousands of children in the developing world!  This section will be updated frequently to feature the most urgent work the Activity Team has to do.

====Labyrinth====

====Quiz software===

Labyrinth is a mind mapping activity.  [[User:garycmartin|Gary C Martin]] is currently leading the port of this PyGTK program to Sugar.  Mind mapping software has been specifically requested by teachers at deployments.  Labyrinth needs help improving and extending the user interface, so PyGTK skills would be important.  Or, collaboration would be a great addition!

One of the top activity requests from deployments is a general purpose, collaborative Quiz activity.  It should support creation of quizzes by teachers.  It should support image, sound and text content, in the form of multiple choice, fill in the blank, true/false, etc.  It should allow multiple students to take a quiz simultaneously by joining the activity.

::I'm making good progress here, main issues resolve around whether I treat this as a fork, there seems a lot of changes needed deeper down in the Labyrinth code to make this really novice user friendly, lot's of stray code and odd behaviours floating around once you start digging. -[[User:Garycmartin|Garycmartin]] 23:23, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

====Typing Turtle====

====Speak collaboration====

Typing Turtle is a touch typing activity with a turtle mascot.  We are developing activity this with the Nepal and Afganistan deployments. Peru has also requested this activity as a high priority.  TT is in pre-alpha but is close to its first release.  Help is mostly needed testing and fixing the activity for use with foreign languages, and developing the lesson builder script.  GUI programming experience is not critical, but Python skills and i18n knowledge, as well as the ability to work in a language other than English would be very useful.

This has the potential to be an awesome communication method; not only a chat option for the blind but a way of teaching specific words, and a fun way to engage small clusters of people around an XO: sound carries well to people who aren't currently reading the screen.

 

A request by the Peru deployment is simple math games.  I have started working on some math puzzles with Peter Moxhay, based a suite of Java lessons he wrote in the past.  These are very early in development but there are a lot of games to write.  Also, examples are available, so it's really just porting and the work goes quickly. [[User:Ysun|Ysun]] 19:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)ysun

====Maze collaboration====

====Maze collaboration====

Maze is currently the most addictive multiplayer game on the XO, and it needs a further dusting of crack, including better statistics, handicaps, etc.

Maze is currently the most addictive multiplayer game on the XO, and it needs a further dusting of crack, including better statistics, handicaps, etc.

====SWF activity launcher====

====SWF activity launcher====