On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@somosazucar.org> wrote: > I've been thinking of proposing a question&answer forum (maybe a > sugarlabs-branded shapado or similar instance > (http://gitorious.org/shapado). > > This way we can have a user-supported (and a support-team) multi language > forum similar to http://shapado.com/ or http://stackoverflow.com/ > > This way perhaps we could complement the "support gang". > I agree the user experience for a mailing list is not optimal for simple > questions. > > I offer to build/mantain it. Would be cool if others were interested in > helping out. > What do you think? Could Sugar Labs host it?
We could seed it with the long list of material we have been accumulating in the ActivityTeam section of the wiki... (I wonder, would there be some way to build a cross-posting mechanism in, so the wiki gets further populated with the more highly rated questions/answers?) -walter > Cheers, > > Sebastian > > 2010/10/9 Yioryos Asprobounitis <mavrot...@yahoo.com> >> >> >> --- On Sat, 10/9/10, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > From: Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> >> > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 36 9Re: how >> > to ask a question) >> > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrot...@yahoo.com> >> > Cc: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010, 9:05 AM >> > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:17 AM, >> > Yioryos Asprobounitis >> > <mavrot...@yahoo.com> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:32:42 +1100 >> > >> From: James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> >> > >> To: Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> >> > >> Cc: IAEP <i...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, >> > >> sugar-devel >> > >> <sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org>, >> > >> David Farning <dfarn...@gmail.com>, >> > >> c...@laptop.org, >> > >> Ishan Bansal <is...@seeta.in> >> > >> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] how to ask a question >> > >> Message-ID: <af18c0dc-916e-4614-9661-6458e094c...@laptop.org> >> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> > >> >> > >> On 08/10/2010, at 7:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti >> > wrote: >> > >> > When this happens, we should gently encourage >> > them to >> > >> prefer public >> > >> > communication. I reserve the stronger signals >> > -- such >> > >> as refusing to >> > >> > answer the question until it's posted >> > publicly -- for >> > >> those who are >> > >> > repeatedly ignoring this advice. I'm not >> > running a >> > >> free technical >> > >> > support line. >> > >> >> > >> Indeed. >> > >> >> > >> Here is a page with diagram that I use on other >> > projects >> > >> for people who persist in writing privately to >> > me: >> > >> >> > >> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/why.phtml >> > >> >> > >> -- >> > >> James Cameron >> > >> System Test Coordinator >> > >> One Laptop per Child >> > >> >> > >> >> > > >> > > I would not necessarily disagree with the opinions >> > expressed on the matter, but there is a very big gap in SL's >> > communication with it's users. >> > > No place to ask the "stupid/bad/novice/malformed" >> > questions. >> > >> > Are not iaep and sur the places to ask these questions? If >> > not, why not? >> > >> >> Because we are still talking about "early hacking" or "messing with >> python/sugar" or "I tried something and got stuck" questions. >> The kind that a 5-6th grade student with a year+ XO experience or an >> adventurous teacher may have. >> Whom do they ask, so they can mature and advance to the list-proper? >> >> >> > -walter >> > >> > > For an organization that caters to 1,5 million kids >> > and few thousand teachers and almost be default computer >> > novices, this is unacceptable (to me). >> > > As a developer of an upstream organization, you may as >> > well say "this is not my problem", however, as a SugarLabs >> > member it should be. >> > > Applying "devel-list rules" to the _only_ Q&A >> > Sugar venue, can seriously contribute to an "unapproachable" >> > image and put off the exact people that you are trying to >> > constructively teach. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Sugar-devel mailing list >> > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Walter Bender >> > Sugar Labs >> > http://www.sugarlabs.org >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > -- > Sebastian Silva > http://somosazucar.org/ > "Te imaginas si te pudieran enseñar sólo a leer pero no a escribir??" > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
