On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Luke Faraone <l...@faraone.cc> wrote: > This would include things like: > > Download Sugar (Sends them off to the [[Try Sugar]] wikipage) > Explore teaching resources (needs authoring) > Solve a problem ([[Sugar help]]) > Get involved
How you set things up in that homepage will shape what newcomers do. If you say "get software, get content, get documentation" first, then that is what people will do. If you say "join our user group" first, you shape things in a different way. If this user group is welcoming, and gently mentors newcomers into the available resources and social mores; then you have a good nurturing space for an excellent user documentation & teacher resources wiki. Programmers and other geek types will mostly fend for themselves ;-) Put a link somewhere for developers and we'll find it. For example, moodle.org used to draw you into the user group ("Using Moodle") as the answer to almost everything (except download and CVS checkout ;-) ). And so it was. Gradually, a documentation wiki got added, and as it's been growing in quality, it has taken more and more prominence in the homepage. Same with other resources. Nowadays, newcomers grab a complete, stable, documented product and explore databases of available content and plugins, with little or no community engagement. Perhaps some opportunities for participation are missed. But the community is large, strong, and self-sustaining (and - as Kevin says, puts a gigantic amount of work on the maintenance-heavy resources like the wiki). cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing