[IAEP] Getting Involved

[Caroline Meeks]

Hi Gary,


Caroline

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>wrote:

> Hi Caroline,
>
> On 21 Jan 2009, at 15:06, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>
>  How about combining Developer, Web Developer and Administrator into one
>> and adding "Educator"
>>
>
> Hmmm, developer and web-developer are pretty different skills/tasks to fold
> into a role, I was actually in mind that really the developer role should be
> split into core-developer and activity-developer as the skill/knowledge sets
> can be so different (a teacher is unlikely to be a core-developer, but
> hopefully very likely to be an activity-developer).



I agree with the content of what you are saying.

However my goal for *this* page is to encourage people to click to the next
page without having to think deeply.

On the follow up pages we can go into more details. For technical people we
can talk to them about core-development vs activity-development vs web work.

But if we show teachers a page that makes them think about whether they are
a Core Developer or a Web Developer they are going to just click the back
button.

This first page needs to be a no brainer. It needs to be a simple choice
where you look and you immediately know which 1, 2 or 3 buttons you want to
click and you pretty much immediately know which one you want to click
first.

I think anyone brand new to the project *even a developer* would have to
think about whether they are a core or activity developer.  Not that
thinking is bad, but I am suggesting that all thinking should be done on the
next page, where we can write more targeted content.


>
>
> I agree that an educator role is an obvious add, but in reality I'd want to
> put just about every other role skill under educator as I think we need
> educators working in all roles! Anyway, perhaps having educator
> skills/knowledge pushing all roles is enough; here's a quick stab at a
> possible Educator role text (please do make some edits!!)


Most of the teams need a mix of people, our job on the next page is to
describe to them how someone with that skillset can contribute to the
different teams.

ex: Deployment teams need writer people to write and distribute press
releases.


>
>
> Description of this role: Focus on Sugar's educational needs.
>
> Skills you possess or want to learn: Explaining complex ideas well, people
> skills, teaching through digital objects, understanding of educational
> theories and obstacles, paedagogy, ability to communicate with and influence
> develkopers.
>
> Teams associated with this role: EducationTeam, ActivityTeam,
> DeploymentTeam
>
> Tasks typical in this role: Lesson plans, teacher guides, text book
> templates/samples, articles, leverage Sugar as an ideal platform for
> learning, provide guidance and feedback to those working on technical
> aspects of Sugar, setting educational goals.


looks like a good start to me. Thanks!

>
>
>
> For the record, from feedback so far (and my own opinion) leans me in the
> direction of adding 3 new roles; an educator role, a testing-QA role, and
> splitting out a separate activity-developer role from the core-developer
> role.
>
> Anymore for anymore? :-)
>
> --Gary
>
>
>  I think technical people are more clueful about what their skills are and
>> will click through to the next page where we can spell out specific skills
>> and specific tasks.
>>
>> I think we need to be explicitly welcoming to Educators. I think a teacher
>> looking at the current page would not know where to click.
>>
>> Caroline
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
>> wrote:
>> Gary,
>>
>> your work on http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved is
>> TOTALLY AWESOME!
>>
>> Thank you very much for taking care of it.
>>
>> --
>>  // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
>>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Caroline Meeks
>> Solution Grove
>> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>>
>> 617-500-3488 - Office
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>>
>
>


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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax
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