[Its.an.education.project] An "About" statement?

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 18:18 +0200, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>  > If I've learned any lesson in my years
>  > in Fedora, it's this: attempts to generate community are wasted if there
>  > is not an adequate architecture of participation to sustain that
>  > community.
>
>  Greg's absolutely right. It has been very difficult for volunteers to
>  get involved w/ OLPC for the last couple years. The learning curve is
>  very steep, esp. for less technical folks. I remember the hassles of
>  trying to get sugar-jhbuild running on my laptop 12 months ago, *the
>  suffering*.  It still is far too difficult to get involved in Sugar for
>  the reasons Greg pointed out.
>
>  It especially difficult for non-technical educators to get involved. We
>  need to work on lowering these barriers.
>
>  We would all love for kids to develop their own learning activities but
>  that just hasn't come to pass so far. We've been developing learning
>  activities w/ ETOys w/ the hope that kids could build upon our
>  activities and improve them. But the Squeak code gets complicated
>  quickly, and performance issues multiply like rabbits.
>
>  For now, We need to at least make it easier for software developers to
>  create activities w/in a short span of time.

Other than the build issues, which we are working on, what else do you
see as blocking/discouraging people to write activities? Lack of
documentation?

Marco