[Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Prasoon Shukla <prasoon92.iitr at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello again.
> I've made a proposal :
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2014/Prasoon2211/Social_Help
>
> *I need a few comments on how the sugar help project will help the sugar
> community.* This I need to add in the proposal. I tried reaching out on
> the IRC but there was no response there. Please comment below.
>

People are social and learning is social. Having a forum for sharing ideas
and help is invaluable -- especially in light of the decentralized nature
of the Sugar community. While the developer community is comfortable with
IRC, we have not been successful in getting our user community to use it:
they are seeming more comfortable with web tools (e.g. there is a large
community of teachers using Facebook to discuss Sugar.) It would of course
be better to have a FOSS solution. But also one that didn't require a lot
of maintenance and support by the Sugar developer community. Hence, a
connection to an existing FOSS platform would be attractive.

regards.

-walter


>
> Anyway, this is the first draft. Please comment on the discussions page if
> anything is required in the proposal.
>
> Thanks!
> ᐧ
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Walter Bender
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