It appears that the consensus is to keep activity developers and sugar developers united on the same ML.
Instead of talking specifically about the activities list, I would like to talk more generally about community growth. This discussion is premised on the belief that the future of the Sugar Learning Platform depends on two factors: Continuing the vision of learning through 'sharing, reflection, and exploration.' At the same time, we must provide enough value to technical and educational communities that they want to support and spread this vision. One method of implementing this vision is to evolve Sugar Labs to a structure similar to the Eclipse Foundation[1]. At is core, Eclipse is an open learning platform. Sugar is an open learning platform. The value in Eclipse is in the ecosystem surrounding the platform; the users, the contributors, and the developers. The value in Sugar will be in our ecosystem; the students, teachers, contributors, and developers who extend and improve the platform. Theses student, teacher, contributor, and developer groups will evolve from community seeds that we plant now. My role for the last couple of months has been to plant and foster these communities until they are self sustaining. When looking for places to start and foster communities around Sugar Labs, I have been looking for three criteria: 1. Will the new community provide benefit to the Sugar Labs community? Do our goal coincide? 2. Is the community growing? 3. Is the community developing internal leadership? With this in mind, the goal of creating new mailing lists is not to fragment the existing community. It is to create footholds for other communities to develop around the central learning platform. thanks dfarning 1. http://www.eclipse.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep