[IAEP] maintaining activities (was Re: Too many open fronts?)

[David Farning]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:17, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>>> El Wed, 09-06-2010 a las 02:59 -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis escribió:
>>>> However, the 20month+ old F9/0.82, os802 build remains the official XO-1 build.
>>>
>>> It's just a formality, nobody has been doing any work on it for years.
>>
>> To clarify: I am working on it. and it mainly helps deployments that
>> are implementing security. It is taking ages because, well, I am doing
>> the work of 5 people.
>>
>> I share Yiorios' concerns. Both OLPC and SL are overreaching wildly.
>>
>> We have to focus on polish, on getting something useful in the hands
>> of children. On making a difference there. We cannot leave XO-1.5
>> unfinished. We have to hear the SoaS crowd when they point out that
>> very few activities are shippable.
>
> I agree in that focusing is very important. But paradoxically, you can
> be in a situation in which individuals are focused on their work but
> the organization as a whole isn't focused at all.

One possible approach is for Sugar Labs to focus on being an
innovative upstream while downstreams like Activity Central, SoaS, and
deployments focus on the polish. Activity Central is pulling
deplolyment level polish into Sugar.

dav

> To have focus at the team level we need someone who takes a step back
> from the task at hand and takes a look at where we are and where we
> are supposed to go.
>
> I think teams provide a space for that and allows for different people
> to take that reflective role at periodic times.
>
> We used to have an Activity Team and it actually saw the importance of
> maintaining existing activities so had processes for adoption and for
> finding the resources. Unfortunately, as often happens in efforts like
> ours, the person driving that effort had to attend to other matters
> and the team languished.
>
> But we still have people reading our mailing lists with the skills and
> interest to maintain activities and update them to work on other
> platforms than the XO-1 with 8.2.x, but we lack focus.
>
> Can we find someone who wants to coordinate the team?
>
> It's not such a big role in terms of work, the responsibilities are
> the following:
>
> - keep the mission statement updated in the wiki page
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team ,
>
> - keep the members list updated,
>
> - call for biweekly meetings and moderate them,
>
> - publish meeting minutes and logs.
>
> But this relatively small effort can bring the focus we need.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> cheers,
>>
>>
>> m
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