[IAEP] Wiki Barn Raising!
alan c
aeclist at candt.waitrose.com
Tue May 27 19:19:38 CEST 2008
David Farning wrote:
> I got a bit frustrated starting the bugsquad. The frustration was
> mainly caused by my inability to find public information about the
> project. There is a lot of good stuff in the wiki and mailing list. It
> is just hard to find.
>
> So, for the last two days I have been reworking the wiki to make the
> information more accessible.
>
> 1. I have been creating a hierarchy in the wiki based on functional
> areas. The center is Community which branches off to other areas.
>
> 2. Currently, the two sub areas are Sugar Labs and the BugSquad. The
> bugsquad is split off as a prototype for how other teams can be set up.
> Sugar Labs is split off for two reasons. a. The Sugar Labs stuff can be
> turned into a formal and polished website for reporters and others who
> are put off by the chaos of a rapidly evolving wiki. b. This expresses
> that Sugar Labs is an (often payed) subgroup of the sugar community.
> Not, that the Sugar community is a (free labor, second class) group
> attached to the lab
>
> 3 Making the Sugar Community->Sugar Labs relationship visible and
> transparent is very important. For example, look at how the
> Fedora/Redhat and Canonical/Ubuntu relationships have flourished while
> the Linspire and OLPC projects have struggled.
>
> Over the next few days (I am home sick with a cold) I will continue to
> work on the wiki by:
>
> 1. Editing and re-factoring.
> 2. Create team areas where related stuff is organized.
> 3. Pulling important stuff from the iaep and sugar Mailing list.
>
> If anyone has documents that should be add to the wiki please let me
> know.
A link to the wiki would be appropriate - I am not sure which one, for
example.
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alan cocks
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