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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Wade Brainerd <wad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, hope you are enjoying FUDcon. > > Given the recent events at OLPC, I'm planning to refocus my activity > development efforts on SugarLabs. I imagine other activity developers > are planning to do the same. > > SugarLabs is off to a great start getting packages into distributions, > but I can't help noticing that the activities on the home page are > essentially the same were shipped with OLPC build 650 back in 2007. > > One of the things that drew me to Sugar and OLPC was the promise of > high quality, collaborative, constructivist educational software. > While the initial activity set was good, it was also clear that there > were large holes to be filled. For a variety reasons, many of those > holes remain two years later. > > And that's why I'm proposing the creation of a SugarLabs ActivityTeam. > The new team will be separate from the DevelopmentTeam, and will have > the responsibility of maintaining and extending the suite of > activities available for Sugar. > > We will: > 1. Maintain and develop the current suite of Sugar activities. > 2. Recruit and mentor activity developers from the community. > 3. Collect, document and organize new activity and activity feature > ideas from the EducationTeam, deployments and community. > 4. Work with the DevelopmentTeam and the InfrastructureTeam to ensure > activity developers are well supported. > 5. Gather feedback with the DeploymentTeam about how Sugar activities > are doing in the field. > > Until now, activity development has largely been an individual effort. > The purpose of this proposal is to collect the activity development > community into an effective team who can tackle the entire ecosystem > of Sugar activities together. One result should be fewer activities > "dropping off the radar" into lack of maintenance. > > Please respond with your feedback about the proposal. If you like the > idea and would like to be part of the ATeam, feel free to indicate > that. > > Best, > Wade > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel