[IAEP] Help activity was Re: deployment team meeting?

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

i agree with yama.


Would be ok to put help icon
directly on the main frame ?

and also transform it to connect directly with for example tools like
launchpad, track and idea.sugarlabs.org ?.



Rafael Ortiz



On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka<yamaplos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>> 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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