[IAEP] Testing team page

[David Farning]

I will start going through and cleaning thing up the wiki this weekend.

Should I create a TestingTeam area?

david

Sorry for falling behind.  I met several students and facility members from
the University of Wisconsin this week.  It is going to take a while to catch
up on all of the leads our discussions have generated.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Caroline Meeks
>> <caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>> > The Getting Involved page was blank when I got there.  We should have
>> > something there! at a bare minimum a link to how to help test, but
>> surely
>> > there are more ways we want people to get involved?
>>
>> Ooops, how did you get to that page? It's about getting involved with
>> the release team (probably something that most people will not want to
>> do :P).
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>
> Wow! That is a good question. yesterday I pressed the Green navbar "Getting
> Involved" and got to that page. I just assumed there was one "getting
> involved page" and that all links that looked exactly same and were in
> exactly the same place all actually went to the same page (silly me!).  ;)
> Today I'm trying to repeat my path and I see that there are many getting
> involved pages under different sections of the site.  I can't figure out how
> I got to the one I edited yesterday!
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>> I totally agree that we should have a prominent "Getting involved"
>> page which should point people to things like testing. I guess ideally
>> this page would introduce the various teams and point to their main
>> page? (each of the team pages has his own getting involved section).
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>
> So in my explorations of 17 zillion getting involved pages I found this
> one.
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> http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/GettingInvolved
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> This is a start.
>
> The Sugar philosophy is we start with simple tools but allow students to
> progress to very complex levels.  The volunteer philosophy should mirror
> that.  We should have simple ways to help and get started and clear paths
> towards people becoming deeply involved using complex skills and talents.
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>> The wiki is quite a mess right now. I think we need a much simpler
>> landing page, with links about the most important things (Get sugar,
>> Get involved, Submit bugs...). People can dig deeper from there. Now
>> that we are trying to drag more external attention on the project, I
>> think it's critical that the web site communicates effectively.
>>
>> Any volunter for a wiki re-org? :)
>>
>> I like a lot the team based approach that David proposed a while ago,
>> but I think it's time for a big cleanup. I'd be glad to get involved
>> in such an effort but I need to stay mainly focused on development and
>> hence I would prefer if someone else could lead it.
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> +1
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>> Marco
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