[Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam proposal

[Walter Bender]

+1

I'll join.

-walter

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, hope you are enjoying FUDcon.
>
> Given the recent events at OLPC, I'm planning to refocus my activity
> development efforts on SugarLabs.  I imagine other activity developers
> are planning to do the same.
>
> SugarLabs is off to a great start getting packages into distributions,
> but I can't help noticing that the activities on the home page are
> essentially the same were shipped with OLPC build 650 back in 2007.
>
> One of the things that drew me to Sugar and OLPC was the promise of
> high quality, collaborative, constructivist educational software.
> While the initial activity set was good, it was also clear that there
> were large holes to be filled.  For a variety reasons, many of those
> holes remain two years later.
>
> And that's why I'm proposing the creation of a SugarLabs ActivityTeam.
>  The new team will be separate from the DevelopmentTeam, and will have
> the responsibility of maintaining and extending the suite of
> activities available for Sugar.
>
> We will:
> 1. Maintain and develop the current suite of Sugar activities.
> 2. Recruit and mentor activity developers from the community.
> 3. Collect, document and organize new activity and activity feature
> ideas from the EducationTeam, deployments and community.
> 4. Work with the DevelopmentTeam and the InfrastructureTeam to ensure
> activity developers are well supported.
> 5. Gather feedback with the DeploymentTeam about how Sugar activities
> are doing in the field.
>
> Until now, activity development has largely been an individual effort.
>  The purpose of this proposal is to collect the activity development
> community into an effective team who can tackle the entire ecosystem
> of Sugar activities together.  One result should be fewer activities
> "dropping off the radar" into lack of maintenance.
>
> Please respond with your feedback about the proposal.  If you like the
> idea and would like to be part of the ATeam, feel free to indicate
> that.
>
> Best,
> Wade
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Walter Bender
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