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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:47, Rafael Enrique Ortiz
Guerrero<dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:
> i agree with yama.
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> Would be ok to put help icon
> directly on the main frame ?

You mean the frame or the favorites view? For older users with better
trackpads and bigger screens, they may need help to find the frame ;)

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

Any ideas about what the UI would look like?

Thanks,

Tomeu

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> Rafael Ortiz
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> 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
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>> 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:
>>>
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>>>> 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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