On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:33, Bastien<bastiengue...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I agree 100% with Tomeu that recruitment needs to be targeted to where >> prequalified candidates are. > > So do I. The best tool for FOSS people is good documentation. > > Alan Kay repeatedly said that the user interface should be a "learning > interface". Think of the Sugar Labs website as a user interface: how to > transform it into a learning interface? > > For now, documentation on how to develop Sugar activities basically > sends developers outside of Sugar and the Sugar community by telling > them to become python programmers first. When they are python devs, > they are told to go and check pygtk or pygame first. When they are > pygtk programmers they can find useful feedback on the wiki and on > the mailing list on how to sugarize an activity - but it's too late, > we lost 90% of potential good will by sending it outside of Sugar. > > Sugar should engage developers in *learning* rather than give them > the impression the number of pre-requisites is high. IMHO having a > more self-contained documentation could help.
Adding Jeff Elkner to CC in case he has ideas about how to make this happen. Regards, Tomeu > -- > Bastien > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep