On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2008/5/7 Samuel Klein <<a href="mailto:meta.sj@gmail.com">meta.sj@gmail.com</a>>:</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> It never hurts to be paranoid, but the educational priorities of our tool<br>
> and software development are not changing. There are priorities that have<br>
> not been effectively set in that regard -- but your input there is part of<br>
> any decisions that are made. Perhaps we could use an open working group to<br>
> review and set core activities that can guide the list of activities (and<br>
> specific versions) that is proposed for each release.<br>
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</div>Yes! Actually, we need an open working group on all OLPC policies. And<br>
I don't only mean development policies.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Right. Well, we can start with a couple groups for 1. tagging and reviewing core activities, and 2. reviewing policy organization/publication and the style guidelines for creating and sharing policy suggestions. <br>
<br>We may also need open groups to more coherently address outreach, roadshows and event representation, and general communication across the community.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It isn't only that the community has no input on many policies. It's<br>
that there is no reasonable way to find out what they are, or if there<br>
even is one on a point of interest and concern.</blockquote><div><br>This is a slightly inaccurate set of statements : the community in principle has a good deal of input on many policies; however, until they are formulated in a coherent way, community members are unlikely to recognize where and how they can effectively give input. <br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>In rare cases there exist policies which the community has not found out about -- usually because of an unfortunate time lag. The other 95% of the time, not being able to find out what a policy is indicates that one has not been set down -- and that {{sofixit}} is a reasonable first-pass solution. (Which is to say, proposing a policy in writing on the wiki and broadcasting it for discussion is a good way to begin finding out what the policy is/should be.)<br>
<br>SJ<br> <br>
> What people spend time discussing and worrying about has changed, and this<br>
> can distract from addressing issues such as what the best activty<br>
> presentation is for children and clasrooms in different settings -- one<br>
> reason that recent discussions on the education.project list have been great<br>
> to see and take part in.<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Also, for the first time I have gotten sustained editing activity on a<br>
Wiki page I created. Thanks to all who looked and wrote more.<br>
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Edward Cherlin<br>
End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business<br>
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay<br>
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