[Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam proposal

[Nirav Patel]

Count me in as well.  This is a wonderful idea and could very well be
what is necessary to make the wish list of Activities proposals real.

Nirav

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
> +1
> I am in too.
>
> Arjun
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>
>> I believe this will make a very big difference in the future of Sugar.
>>
>> Good luck and have fun,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 19:46, 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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