[IAEP] (engineering) capacity building

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:33, Bastien<bastienguerry at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Adding Jeff Elkner to CC in case he has ideas about how to make this happen.

Regards,

Tomeu

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>  Bastien
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