On 30.07.2009, at 22:23, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:17:56PM -0300, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> >> On 28.07.2009, at 07:22, Martin Dengler wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:24:13PM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: >>> >>>> However, I feel like it could be better if the community (who I >>>> might even stretch to call "customers") could have more influence. >>>> [...] What are the options for the community having more of an >>>> influence here? >>> >>> Influence on whom? Developers? There are no SugarLabs employed >>> developers. >> >> >> But if we get feedback from the "front line", from teachers actually >> using our software in the field, the volunteer developers I know >> struggle to find a way to make it easier for them. Nothing beats >> direct contact with children of course, but even meeting teachers >> from >> the deployments and hearing first-hand accounts of the problems (and >> successes!) is rather motivating. Reading these reports on a mailing >> list is less emotionally moving but still a great hint at how to >> prioritize one's spare time. > > I don't disagree with anything you said, but I'm struggling to see how > it's relevant to the OP or my reply. Perhaps by "the volunteer > developers I know struggle to find a way to make it easier for them" > you're implying that we need to make it easier for volunteer > developers to contribute?
No, I meant the volunteer developers are motivated largely by feedback from users of their software. They then do all they can (sometimes even struggling) to help. At least that's what I see with the Etoys developers, which is similar to Sugar in that it's not a scratch-your- own-itch open-source project. - Bert - >> The problem is we get way too few feedback. > > Indeed. > >> - Bert - > > Martin _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel