[IAEP] deployment team meeting?

[Yamandu Ploskonka]

what about seeding Sugar with a more appealing access to Help, also in 
such a way that it also encourages feedback?

(I already had pointed that the access to help has to be more visible to 
be useful, and then part of its functioning would be to encourage actual 
users to speak)

Yama

Walter Bender wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> would like to propose a meeting to talk about how deployments can
>> provide better feedback and how we can process it so developers and
>> the rest of Sugar Labs can prioritize their work accordingly.
>>
>> How does it sound?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
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>> What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David
>> Farning
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> Alas, this is the sort of mindset we are working with:
>
>   
>> Walter,
>>
>> We have continued working closely with the pilot school and have
>> gotten a lot of insight into what the teachers want/need. Right now
>> our calendar is pretty full so joining IRC meetings isn't really
>> feasible.  We will, however, pass on requests when it seems like
>> there's a demand for something to help make the Sugar more
>> relevant in the classroom.
>>
>> I hope that there will be more useful information come out of the
>> NSF funded ICAC (Integrating Computing Across the Curriculum)
>> grant that we are a part of.  It will disseminate information related
>> to findings in the schools and we'll be glad to let you know in
>> advance when publications become available.
>>     
>
> Not convinced that better reporting tools are going to help with
> attitudes such as this. We need a way to get past the deployment
> gatekeepers and the academics and talk directly with teachers and
> students.
>
> -walter
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