Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 17:12, David Van Assche wrote: > Ok, I think what's happening here is a breakdown in communication. When I > used the term obvious, I was talking about Christoph's email... I was > stating that perhaps the message, as I understood it, was that we need more > data from the fi

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-14 Thread David Van Assche
Ok, I think what's happening here is a breakdown in communication. When I used the term obvious, I was talking about Christoph's email... I was stating that perhaps the message, as I understood it, was that we need more data from the field... and that _the message_ was not obvious enough in the ema

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 20:17, David Van Assche wrote: > I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying... all I said was "we need > more data from the field" Well, I also understood that you said that it wasn't obvious enough. Which surprised me after all the noise lately about getting feedbac

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying... all I said was "we need more data from the field" I am in no way blaming anyone for not getting feedback, on the contrary, I am frustrated that the calls for feediback are not being heard enoguh, and I am well aware of people's efforts to try an

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:51, David Van Assche wrote: > H... I have to agree with Christoph here. I didn't really see it as > being dramatic at all, but quite factual in fact. The western small > deployments really don't give us any useful stats on what is happening on a > larger scale in the

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
H... I have to agree with Christoph here. I didn't really see it as being dramatic at all, but quite factual in fact. The western small deployments really don't give us any useful stats on what is happening on a larger scale in the third world. And its important to acknowledge the differences b

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Sean DALY schrieb: >> >> IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to >> all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be >> triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Suga

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Sean DALY schrieb: >> IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to >> all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be >> triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Sugar >

[IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Sean DALY schrieb: > IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to > all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be > triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Sugar > Labs, but I am convinced many learnings will benefit large > depl