Re: [IAEP] (engineering) capacity building

2009-07-17 Thread Sean DALY
We discussed recently making improvements to the Getting Involved page ( http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-June/001510.html ). I feel it would serve us to maintain job listings, on the Getting Involved page, linked to from each team's page and posted at the end of Walter's Sugar

Re: [IAEP] activities

2009-07-17 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Regarding BotSpeak, speak has this feature implemented as the ''robot'' toolbar (before known as sara;)), maybe is better to follow the development from there ?. Rafael Ortiz On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 02:11:01PM +0200,

Re: [IAEP] (engineering) capacity building

2009-07-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:33, Bastienbastiengue...@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

Re: [IAEP] (engineering) capacity building

2009-07-17 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Bastien schrieb: 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. I totally agree. Having such a self-contained documentation is also the reason why OLPC

Re: [IAEP] (engineering) capacity building

2009-07-17 Thread Sean DALY
I wasn't thinking either of posting articles about recruitment on those places, rather to get our organization known. Most of the people that know that Sugar exists think we are part of OLPC, or that we have funding and a paid development team or that we have abandoned the OLPC cause and are

Re: [IAEP] (engineering) capacity building

2009-07-17 Thread Bastien
David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org writes: Of the successful not-for-profits and community organizations I have studied, one of the common threads is a near maniacal emphasis on the importance of contributors feeling the impact of their contribution on the project. I think it's easier for

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 16, Issue 66

2009-07-17 Thread Jim Simmons
Caroline, It may be that sharing in Image Viewer is broken. However, I have tested sharing in View Slides and that works. What you might do is this: 1). Have the teacher download View Slides from ASLO, which will install it in her Journal. 2). If the pictures are already in her Journal she

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs market analysis

2009-07-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:16 AM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Fred Grose has started an interesting wiki page at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_Labs/Roadmap discussing the Sugar Labs roadmap. Let's see whether I can add anything. Yes. I'll put the Project category on

[IAEP] Wiki template question: {{PAGENAMEE}}

2009-07-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
Is there a way to get this template to format better? It all comes out on one line. {{Special:PrefixIndex/{{PAGENAMEE}}/}} -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination.

Re: [IAEP] Wiki template question: {{PAGENAMEE}}

2009-07-17 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get this template to format better? It all comes out on one line. {{Special:PrefixIndex/{{PAGENAMEE}}/}} It's a transclusion of the Special page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:PrefixIndex, and