[Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

[Sai Vineet]

Hi,

Here's my comment -
There is currently no way to get instant help from real people from
inside Sugar, except the IRC activity, which sadly is too complicated
and distributed(hard to find stuff which one needs, no logs, there are
security problems). We really need a way to get children help quickly,
and this is what this project will give us. It will, with time, also
become a full help repository, and also a way for children to talk and
discuss things in a more social manner than it is now. Thus the Social
Help project is invaluable to Sugar and it's vision, that learning is
a social process.


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Prasoon Shukla <prasoon92.iitr at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hello again.
>> I've made a proposal :
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2014/Prasoon2211/Social_Help
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>> *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.
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> 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.
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> regards.
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> -walter
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>> Anyway, this is the first draft. Please comment on the discussions page
>> if anything is required in the proposal.
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>> Thanks!
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