[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Mockup for collab.sugarlabs.org

[Gerald Ardito]

Wade,

You said:
" if only we could put every Sugar developer
at a deployment for a week."

I am a teacher and doctoral student managing a deployment of 150 XOs/SOAS
and would love to have this happen!

Gerald

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>
> wrote:
> > All mentioned above could be(already) done in existed env. But the major
> > idea of collab.sl.o proposal is bringing life to existed scheme by
> > stimulating users to share their needs(due to having convenient
> > "ASLO for needs" site).
>
> Hi Aleksey,
>
> We definitely need to improve our lines of communication with users
> (deployments, teachers, students and casual).  As a programmer I
> appreciate a good technical solution to this problem.
>
> I think it's more a personal problem than a tech problem though.  E.g.
> we need better relationships between developers and users, more than
> we need a better form to fill in.  And that's really a job for the
> project leadership, mostly by introducing people and encouraging them
> to follow up.  Tomeu's recent visit to Laboratorio Tecnológico del
> Uruguay is a great example; if only we could put every Sugar developer
> at a deployment for a week.  I joined the sur list and use Google
> Translate to feel at least a little bit plugged in :)   Still, I
> occasionally send emails to deployments asking things like "Are you
> guys using Typing Turtle?" and "What kinds of activities could you
> use?" but rarely hear back.  I guess it's a problem when most of the
> developers speak one language, and most of the users speak one of many
> others.
>
> > I'm personally for lightweight collab.sl.o(to meet only mentioned above
> > issues) and reusing existed development related resources like
> > wiki/launchpad/mls for development process.
>
> What do you think about making this idea into an activity, instead of
> a website?  We could take my "Report a Problem" control panel and turn
> it into a "Feedback" activity.  I already have the "log collector"
> server set up on SL infrastructure - we could turn the feedback into a
> RSS feed for developers who could detect trends.  I'm not sure about
> the voting stuff - we hardly get any reviews on ASLO as it is, my
> Typing Turtle score is down to 3 stars because of one middle school
> kid :)
>
> (BTW, there seems to not be much user representation in the discussion
> about 0.88 features, which may provide some motivation for this topic)
>
> -Wade
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