[IAEP] (engineering) capacity building

[Bastien]

Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> writes:

> I agree 100% with Tomeu that recruitment needs to be targeted to where
> prequalified candidates are. 

So do I.  The best tool for FOSS people is good documentation.

Alan Kay repeatedly said that the user interface should be a "learning
interface".  Think of the Sugar Labs website as a user interface: how to
transform it into a learning interface?

For now, documentation on how to develop Sugar activities basically
sends developers outside of Sugar and the Sugar community by telling
them to become python programmers first.  When they are python devs,
they are told to go and check pygtk or pygame first.  When they are
pygtk programmers they can find useful feedback on the wiki and on 
the mailing list on how to sugarize an activity - but it's too late, 
we lost 90% of potential good will by sending it outside of Sugar.

Sugar should engage developers in *learning* rather than give them 
the impression the number of pre-requisites is high.  IMHO having a 
more self-contained documentation could help.

-- 
 Bastien