On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:30, Gerald Ardito <gma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wade, > > You said: > " if only we could put every Sugar developer > at a deployment for a week." > > I am a teacher and doctoral student managing a deployment of 150 XOs/SOAS > and would love to have this happen!
Is your deployment in New York? Regards, Tomeu > Gerald > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Wade Brainerd <wad...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org> >> wrote: >> > All mentioned above could be(already) done in existed env. But the major >> > idea of collab.sl.o proposal is bringing life to existed scheme by >> > stimulating users to share their needs(due to having convenient >> > "ASLO for needs" site). >> >> Hi Aleksey, >> >> We definitely need to improve our lines of communication with users >> (deployments, teachers, students and casual). As a programmer I >> appreciate a good technical solution to this problem. >> >> I think it's more a personal problem than a tech problem though. E.g. >> we need better relationships between developers and users, more than >> we need a better form to fill in. And that's really a job for the >> project leadership, mostly by introducing people and encouraging them >> to follow up. Tomeu's recent visit to Laboratorio Tecnológico del >> Uruguay is a great example; if only we could put every Sugar developer >> at a deployment for a week. I joined the sur list and use Google >> Translate to feel at least a little bit plugged in :) Still, I >> occasionally send emails to deployments asking things like "Are you >> guys using Typing Turtle?" and "What kinds of activities could you >> use?" but rarely hear back. I guess it's a problem when most of the >> developers speak one language, and most of the users speak one of many >> others. >> >> > I'm personally for lightweight collab.sl.o(to meet only mentioned above >> > issues) and reusing existed development related resources like >> > wiki/launchpad/mls for development process. >> >> What do you think about making this idea into an activity, instead of >> a website? We could take my "Report a Problem" control panel and turn >> it into a "Feedback" activity. I already have the "log collector" >> server set up on SL infrastructure - we could turn the feedback into a >> RSS feed for developers who could detect trends. I'm not sure about >> the voting stuff - we hardly get any reviews on ASLO as it is, my >> Typing Turtle score is down to 3 stars because of one middle school >> kid :) >> >> (BTW, there seems to not be much user representation in the discussion >> about 0.88 features, which may provide some motivation for this topic) >> >> -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 > > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel