Activity Library/Devel/Roadmap

Proposal / Suggestion

I've been thinking about a better portal for downloading activities. I came up with some ideas, that I unfortunately don't have time to implement, but I would be happy to cheer someone on if they are inspired by this... For the record, --Morgs 18:14, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

It should be easy to upload an activity (specifically after the first time it has been done) - easier than uploading to the wiki.

Activities should be categorised according to various properties, including:

• The usual activity metadata from activity.info
• Descriptions, as in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities
• Category, as in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities
• Age ranges the activity is suitable for? (Possibly a Mature category for Doom?)
• Competencies required: Pre-reading, reading, writing, ...
• Development maturity

• like sourceforge: planning / pre-alpha / alpha / beta / stable

• Collaborative?

• yes / no / only (for activities like Connect or Chat that don't function as a single user activity)

• Requires Internet? (e.g. Gmail)
• Compatible with: Sugar / Glucose version or OLPC release or distro release... e.g. Sugar >= 0.81
• Additional Dependencies (e.g. video-chat-activity needs extra RPMs not in a build)
• Tags
• Languages - pulled out of the .xo
• Low power friendly?
• Related activities (for suites or alternatives)
• Screenshot

Activities have Releases, which have status similar to the development maturity - Suitable for: development / QA / public release etc - and of course the downloadable bundle for that release...

The site should be internationalisable using standard i18n tools.

Bonus points for:

• Publishing a text page like http://mock.laptop.org/repos/local.update1/XOS/index.html at predictable URLs that lists activities compatible with a given release, for easy downloading with scripts etc.
• Publishing the source in public distributed revision control, to get easy contributions to code / templates
• Deployment on a system that is monitored and actively sysadmined
• Implementation in a Python web framework, to tap into the existing developer community :)
• A catchy name...

Future features:

• Download statistics
• Feedback to the author(s)