[IAEP] Wiki Barn Raising!

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Tue May 27 19:22:01 CEST 2008


A link from where?

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org

-walter

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> 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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