Don't get me wrong - what is being done is amazing. It is most important to support those who get it and need help as the primary use of time and resources.
You only learn what you almost know. It will take valuable limited resources to educate those who are outside the scope of "almost knowing" the underlying concepts and rational and appreciating how this will fundamentally change education. That is a pretty big step for many people. And I would like to help with that, as I am currently part of the problem, On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:16 PM, <moku...@earthtreasury.org> wrote: > On Wed, June 15, 2011 2:40 pm, Valerie Taylor wrote: > > It is about doing something as soon as possible, not as soon as convenient. > > There is documentation for teachers, and teacher training material, in > Spanish and Nepali that I would like to see translated to English and then > to dozens of other languages. > We could use more help. Great work as far as it goes. So much more that could be done. Getting help is still a problem in most online communities. It is interesting that open software development has been so successful but all the attempts at organizing volunteers for the peripheral services - documentation, training, marketing, have not been nearly as successful. > > There has been a substantial amount of grumbling without providing > specifics so that we can either change the software or the documentation, > as appropriate. Please send me your issues. > As far as I can tell, the software is wonderful and getting better all the time. It makes sense that this is the primary focus of the work. For the grumbling from the rest of us - communicate, communicate, communicate. Make it easy (easier) to find stuff. Keep it open (wiki pages - not .pdf, google docs). Work on expanding the information about the underlying ideas to include broader audiences. Make it easier and more visible how to ask for help. And make it easy to volunteer to help and to know how to help. This is how I plan to contribute. I can do some of these. Some of the work has already been done but needs re-discovering, Grumbling is good - I'm here to help. Some of these are hard - there aren't good working models. But heck, that's what makes this important and interesting. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep