[IAEP] Update on the Sugar Labs website refresh

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

Sean,

I would be happy to participate on the panel.
Gerald

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

> Many thanks Christian for this update
>
> Yes I too saw that although Walter (the Sugar Digest [1]), myself (on
> the lists [2] plus the olpcnews piece [3]), John (on the lists [4]),
> JT & Mike (on the lists [5]) all asked for content, there was little
> or no reaction. I believe we need to ask more concretely, i.e. "for
> the X page we need a Y visual" - even if this means a list of
> requests. I can't help but feel that the day the new site goes live
> there will be complaints, while assistance now will make the site the
> best it can be!
>
> Another next step is to assemble a teacher panel to assess the site
> usability. The Marketlab study [6] clearly showed that teachers are
> not finding the information they need on our current sites, and
> coupled with the high technical barriers to installing and configuring
> Sugar means we discourage too many teachers from even trying
> Activities. Teachers, contact us please to participate in the panel!
>
> thanks
>
> Sean
>
> 1. http://walterbender.org/?p=431
> 2. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-March/012783.html
> 3.
> http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/teachers_help_us_improve_the_sugarlabs_website.html
> 4. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-April/012959.html
> 5. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-April/012843.html,
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/dextrose/2011-April/001234.html
> 6. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
> <anything at christianmarcschmidt.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > John and I wanted to give you a brief update on the status of the
> > website. For the last few months we had the benefit of working with
> > two RIT students, JT and Mike, who helped us take initial steps in
> > launching a new and improved public-facing website. With their help,
> > we identified the shortcomings of the current site and the
> > opportunities for (a) better articulating the Sugar value proposition
> > and (b) keeping the site current with events and progress made by the
> > developer community.
> >
> > There were a few learnings along the way: While JT and Mike were able
> > to gather and produce a fair number of assets, it was far more
> > difficult to get all the content we had hoped for and which we know
> > does exist. This means that we will be reaching out to the community
> > again in a short while to help us fill in the missing pieces. In the
> > meantime, thank you to all of you who helped to provide content in the
> > first round!
> >
> > Next steps are to make further traction on the UI design in order to
> > give us a scaffold to populate with content as it comes in. This will
> > be happening over the next few weeks, and we'll keep all of you
> > updated when there are opportunities for feedback.
> >
> > Thanks, and more to come,
> >
> >
> > Christian
> >
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