[IAEP] Sugar Community (was Re: [SLOBS] Sugar Labs 2010 Goals Review)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 05:01, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 15:04, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>>> El Mon, 12-07-2010 a las 22:13 -0400, C. Scott Ananian escribió:
>
>>>> > In the past, we've been criticized for insufficient transparency. Does
>>>> > anyone still have a problem with this?
>>>> "Open to critique" isn't quite the same as "responsive to critique".
>> [...]
>>>> For an end-of-year report, I'd like to see instances enumerated where
>>>> SugarLabs actually internalized some outside critique and responded in
>>>> a positive way -- some concrete change made to the UI, or Sugar, or to
>> [...]
>>> I think you're mostly correct, but this is endemic to how a community
>>> works. One can't expect Sugar Labs to react to criticism like a business
>>> would (would it?).
>> [...]
>>> The most effective way to influence a community is becoming part of it
>> [...]
>>> Sadly, it doesn't seem to work so well for non-technical folks. I can't
>
> I would like to see more of an effort to create places for students
> and teachers, maybe even parents and other family, to collaborate,
> discuss, share experiences...

I would like to see more of an effort to discuss how we are going to
resource what we want to happen ;)

Regards,

Tomeu

> Few of them would want to join the
> developers in the technical discussion, but a lot of them would have
> something to say about how something could be used.
>
> For example, there was some discussion of touchscreens in this thread,
> with virtual keyboards. I want to see virtual music keyboards and
> other such tactile interfaces. Players of a wide variety of classical,
> pop, electronic, and folk instruments have a lot to tell us that we
> can't think up without them. If I could get a pressure sensor hooked
> up to the sound port, it would be possible to make a touch-screen
> device into a Midi breath controller. My son and daughter in the video
> games industry can tell you about multitouch game controls.
>
> I have no idea what the children of Peru or Afghanistan might ask of
> us in hardware or software that we haven't though of, but I bet they
> will.
>
>>  --scott
>>
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