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Sorry Laura<br>
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The money is better kept in the bank until Sugar Labs has an
objective and understands what kind of resources it needs. <br>
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It is good that Sugar Labs is considering a budget for this year (a
gross dereliction last year). However, an organization makes a
budget to fund its planned projects for the year. I have never heard
of one that starts out with 'we have this money, how can we spend
it.'<br>
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Our goal for localization should be to enable our users to perform
localization on their own laptops, i.e. view it as an opportunity
for constructive learning.<br>
Naturally, the professionals can do it faster and more efficiently.
That is always the problem when you are trying to develop the
capabilities of learners, but that investment is the business we are
in. Localization is interesting because the most important skill is
knowledge of two languages such as English and Yoruba. This is
precisely the skill that is readily available in a Sugar deployment
in a Yoruba-speaking region (and not in a professional enclave in
Boston).<br>
In Peru, it is incomprehensible that we don't have current
localization in every local language since every Peruvian child has
a laptop with Sugar.<br>
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The major need for Sugar Labs is to create a process for releasing
Sugarversions to be installed on current platforms: PCs, Raspberry
Pi, and Windows 10. The resources capable of accomplishing that have
professional skills and a day job. They need to be motivated to
spend their own time. They need to be 'sung' heroes but will
probably be 'unsung'.<br>
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First, an active contributor contributes to meet a perceived need.
Currently, we greet potential contributors with 'create a
development environment and fix a random bug'. We ask our potential
contributors to be familiar with git (although it isn't actually
used). We don't ask these candidates to become familiar with Sugar
or read 'Making your own Sugar activity'.<br>
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We need to ask contributors to the build and distribute project what
they know about uefi and grub2, livecd tools, making debian images
for Raspberry Pi, and so on. This skill set is available at XSCE and
I have never heard a discussion there about how those talented
volunteers are to be compensated. Several are at ScaleX at this
moment, a location where it might be possible to recruit some of the
technical skills Sugar Labs needs. Adam Holt is there, so at least
one SLOB could be working in the interest of Sugar Labs.<br>
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We have approved an 'outreachy' intern but I have no idea what
project the intern will be asked to undertake (generating an SOAS
image from our github repository would be high on my list). This
seems to be our focus, recruiting resources without any idea of why
these resources are needed.<br>
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Tony <br>
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<div>Hello Tymon,<br>
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Sorry it took me a while to reply. <br>
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This Budget discussion is an open door for proposals,
please do share yours as this policy making is also an
educational process and therefore an ideal arena for
learning!<br>
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Open Badges are proposed as an award for historic
achievements, there is no conflict of interest when you
have numeric results that support your performance. <br>
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I think this discussion leads to the question of what
would make a Sugar Labs member an <b>active contributo</b>r?
and of course, would rewarding active contributors
stimulate regular members to become active contributors?<br>
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Those are valid questions that should and can be easily
tested with for example the implementation Open Badges.<br>
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I would say at least one of the following must happen for
a given period of time for a regular member to be
considered an active contributor: <br>
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<div>1- The member contributed periodically to at least one
of the Sugar Labs Teams.<br>
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<div>2- The member has had active leaderships of at least
one of the Sugar Labs Projects.<br>
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<div>3- The member directly contributed with code and/or
with Sugar Projects translations.<br>
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<div>All this data is available from logs, wiki, mailing
list, etc. I hope for the future of the community and it's
users, the recognition of active contributors becomes soon
an open strategy for Sugar Labs evolution.<br>
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:D<br>
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<div>Regards,<br>
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<div>Laura V.<br>
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Happy Learning!<br>
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Tymon<br>
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