[IAEP] Tools for the community meeting

[Frederick Grose]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Pablo Flores <pflores2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Last Wednesday we had an IRC meeting for analyzing which tools would be
> useful to build for the community. Meeting log is in
> http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2011-01-26T21:06:33. Here
> are my highlights:
>
> Centralized Authentication (CAS)
>
>    - The current multitude of accounts for services at Sugar Labs (and
>    related organisations) is considered an obstacle to participation. We should
>    work on a seamless / automatic log-in system, though the priority of this is
>    not yet clear
>    - Sascha is already working on CAS for sugarlabs.org sites, so it's an
>    ongoing project (he'll write up an overview of how his imagined "seamless
>    login" system is going to work, so others are able to join the effort if
>    they like to)
>
> Metadata, data aggregation and search tools:
>
>    - The holly grial would be to have a centralized aggregator where one
>    could see at a glance what's happening around in the community. Even better
>    if all information was correctly tagged. However, it's not easy to implement
>    the idea.
>    - This would be useful for all kind of users (developers, educators,
>    ...). For instance JT4sugar suggests for information around Teaching is to
>    have information separated into Age/Grade level.
>
> Other ideas suggested:
>
>    - Making a portal for sharing info
>    - autotranslation of some of the mailing lists, like sur->sur-en and
>    iaep->iaep-es (we already have a web-to-IRC gateway and IRC translation,
>    both courtesy of alsroot)
>    - share/maintain list of known blogs, so bloggers can screen and
>    promote what they find interesting
>
> Next meeting: We're continuing the discussion next Wednesday at the same
> time (9PM UTC, 4PM EST) in #sugar-meeting.
>
http://chat.sugarlabs.org:9090/?channels=sugar-meeting

Did you mean the "next" Wednesday on the calendar (02 February 2011), or
Wednesday next week (09 February 2011)?

I'd like to focus on the idea of making a portal for sharing info. Which
> info should it have? Should it aggregate info and/or receive users
> contributions? How can it be easy to contribute there? How can we keep info
> organized?
>
> All feedback is welcome!
>

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>
> Saludos,
> Pablo Flores
>
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