[Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

--- On Sat, 10/9/10, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how to ask a question)
> To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> Cc: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010, 9:05 AM
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:17 AM,
> Yioryos Asprobounitis
> <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:32:42 +1100
> >> From: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> >> To: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> >> Cc: IAEP <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
> >> sugar-devel
> >>     <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
> >> David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com>,
> >>     cjb at laptop.org,
> >> Ishan Bansal <ishan at seeta.in>
> >> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] how to ask a question
> >> Message-ID: <AF18C0DC-916E-4614-9661-6458E094C50F at laptop.org>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >>
> >> On 08/10/2010, at 7:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti
> wrote:
> >> > When this happens, we should gently encourage
> them to
> >> prefer public
> >> > communication. I reserve the stronger signals
> -- such
> >> as refusing to
> >> > answer the question until it's posted
> publicly -- for
> >> those who are
> >> > repeatedly ignoring this advice. I'm not
> running a
> >> free technical
> >> > support line.
> >>
> >> Indeed.
> >>
> >> Here is a page with diagram that I use on other
> projects
> >> for people who persist in writing privately to
> me:
> >>
> >> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/why.phtml
> >>
> >> --
> >> James Cameron
> >> System Test Coordinator
> >> One Laptop per Child
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I would not necessarily disagree with the opinions
> expressed on the matter, but there is a very big gap in SL's
> communication with it's users.
> > No place to ask the "stupid/bad/novice/malformed"
>  questions.
> 
> Are not iaep and sur the places to ask these questions? If
> not, why not?
> 

Because we are still talking about "early hacking" or "messing with python/sugar" or "I tried something and got stuck" questions.
The kind that a 5-6th grade student with a year+ XO experience or an adventurous teacher may have.
Whom do they ask, so they can mature and advance to the list-proper?


> -walter
> 
> > For an organization that caters to 1,5 million kids
> and few thousand teachers and almost be default computer
> novices, this is unacceptable (to me).
> > As a developer of an upstream organization, you may as
> well say "this is not my problem", however, as a SugarLabs
> member it should be.
> > Applying "devel-list rules" to the _only_ Q&A
> Sugar venue, can seriously contribute to an "unapproachable"
> image and put off the exact people that you are trying to
> constructively teach.
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> 
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> Walter Bender
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