X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2010%2F03;h=6cf0c1f1c62a8258f4a4ffd330c35b6a02a95adc;hp=422d35336019f1b964b405d9c2bae31f9f9d5349;hb=f38790468aaa557c6849fdbca85a512a9970fc99;hpb=502ef5ad5ec78e0276cd99ae9fe41b2e4713864c;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/blog/2010/03 b/blog/2010/03 index 422d353..6cf0c1f 100644 --- a/blog/2010/03 +++ b/blog/2010/03 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -== Fri, Mar 12 - Interview with "los scratcheros" == +== Fri, Mar 12 - Interview with //Los Scratcheros// == -|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | maxwidth=480 | The "Scratcheros": Nadia, Benedicto and Alberto}} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00003.jpg | maxwidth=480 | A sugar "hack" (zoom in to see the ASCII art detail) }} || +|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | maxwidth=480 | The "Scratcheros": Nadia, Benedicto and Alberto}} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/1.00011.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Albertito, our youngest volunteer, helping one of our trainers }} || Today I spent some time with three siblings of Caacupe who has impressed me and the educators very much with their original creations in Scratch. Scratch is not a school subject, these kids are @@ -72,38 +72,32 @@ testing my build 45, revealing some bugs in networking and activities. == Mon, Mar 8 - Children like Sugar, for the wrong reasons == -|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Cyber Nick, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00029.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick's lab }} || +|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | CATS, Fernando's XO repair lab in Caacupe }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00029.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick's lab }} || -A few days ago, Fernando the owner of the Caacupe XO support center, wrote to us: - -{{{ -El 8 de marzo de 2010 14:51, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés escribió: -> Como va la migración a Fedora 11 hasta ahora? -> Número aproximado de máquinas actualizadas? - -Raúl, la verdad que todo bien hasta ahora, los chicos están muy entusiasmados con la -nueva versión, y hacen correr la voz, creo que unos 120 equipos ya lo hicimos hasta -ahora más o menos. -}}} - -Google translation with my corrctions: +The owner of **Centro de Assistencia Tecnica y Soporte (CATS)**, the XO support center of +[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caacup%C3%A9 | Caacupé]], wrote: {{{ On March 8 2010 14:51, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés wrote: +> Fernando, +> > How is the migration to Fedora 11 going so far? Approximate number > of machines to date? Raul, the truth that it's going smooth so far, the boys are very excited -about the new version, and the rumor is spreading fast. I think so far -my team updated 120 laptops, more or less. +about the new version, and the rumor is spreading fast. +I think so far my team updated 120 laptops, more or less. + +FG }}} -I witnessed it with my own eyes: every day, children are lining up in front of Cyber Nick's -door early in the morning, and keep coming all day until the evening. +(Google translation with my manual corrctions) -All of them ask for the new version, bui in interesting ways: a little boy said: -"Quiero poner ventanas coloradas" (I want colored windows). They're obviously referring -to the Gnome desktop, also known as "salva pantallas" (screensaver). +I witnessed it with my own eyes: every day, children start lining up outside of CATS' door +early in the morning, and keep coming all day long, until the evening. All of them ask +for the new version, bui in interesting ways: a little boy said: "Quiero poner ventanas +coloradas" (I want colored windows). They're obviously referring to the Gnome desktop, +also known as "salva pantallas" (screensaver). Another kid admired his freshly installed Gnome desktop and proudly declared: "Ahora tienen Windows!" (now I have Windows). In Spanish, therre's no ambiguity on the meaning of the word Windoews. @@ -115,27 +109,34 @@ with a really cool screensaver. Quick! Let's add all this crap to Sugar! :-) Of course not, but could we do anything to appeal more to kids? By now, I think I've observed -our young users closely enough to be able to predict what they're really after: - -More configurabiity. +our young users closely enough to be able to guess what they're really missing in Sugar: -{{pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/escuela_691_profesora_gudelia_cabrera/00048.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Shy girls hiding behind their Barbie-fashioned laptops }} +
+more configurability. +
Yeah, dozen of scientific studies showed how users almost never customize the desktops beyond setting a background image. Kids, however, are a lot more passionate about their precious -laptop than the average office clerk using Windows. They //do// customize the exterior of -their laptops with stickers. - -Believe it or not, many of these kids set the random icon layout (aka "the Negroponte layout"), -because it lets them drag icons around and arrange them in clever ways. I could take screenshot -to prove it. - -And what was the gray color scale in our UI supposed to mean? I was explained it once, and it -seemed to make sense, but I forgot. And, whatver the reason was, kids are unlikely to agree -with us. - -Let's give them a control panel icon to customize colors as they wish, or they'll switch -to Gnome //en masse//. I can't blame them, either. What would you have done when you were 8? +laptop than the average office clerk using Windows. They //do// cover the exterior of +their laptops with colorful stickers. + +|| {{pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/escuela_691_profesora_gudelia_cabrera/00048.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Shy girls hide behind their Barbie-fashioned laptops }} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00003.jpg | maxwidth=480 | A sugar "hack" (zoom in to see the ASCII art detail) }} || + +Believe it or not, many of these kids also set their Home View with the random icon layout +(aka "the Negroponte layout"), because it lets them drag icons around and arrange them in +clever ways. I could take many screenshot to prove it, but I particulatily like this one +abusing Sugar's user name field to create a drawing on three lines. These kids do not live +in the middle of Silicon Valley; it is very likely that they rediscovered the technique +of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art | ASCII art]] completely on their own. +The original idea was passed along and successively refined by several anonymous artists. + +Finally, what was the gray-scale palette supposed to mean in our UI? I was explained it once, +and it seemed to make some sense, but now I forgot. And, whatver the reason was, kids are +unlikely to agree with us. + +Let's give our users a control panel applet for customizing colors as they wish, or they'll +switch to Gnome //en masse//. I can't blame them, either. What would you have done when +you were 8? == Tue, Mar 02 - Charla @ Facultad Politecnica ==