On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This seems like a cool teachable moment if you are interested in learning > more about learning theory and vocabulary. > > The Sugar community is a Community of Practice CoP - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice > > The feedback of the Olin people is on inadequacy of the "legitimate > peripheral participation" that is not having a clear path for people to > participate at the margins of the group then move in. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimate_peripheral_participation > > How to use IRC is Tacit Knowledge > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge) for an open source > developer. So one of the ways we help people is turn it into Explicit > Knowledge by explaining what it is and how to use.
All very good points, thanks! Tomeu > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, this is awesome feedback. I'm going to speak from the SugarLabs >> perspective. >> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Elsa Culler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Last night at sugarcamp, we(people from the Olin college OLPC chapter) >> > were >> > asked to come up with a list of roadblocks we have run into in trying >> > to >> > volunteer effectively. Mel Chua asked me to forward it to these lists, >> > so >> > here is the list in text format: >> > >> > we have to come up with jobs ourselves, and we're not too good at it >> > >> > we don't know what we can do that is useful >> > >> > when we are told what to do, we have to check with other people to make >> > sure >> > it's ok >> >> Point taken, we need to come up with a good list of interesting things >> that people can start with. Somewhat related, I keep up a TODO list of >> things in http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Tomeu that interested people >> can take from my hands. Wonder how we could make this more >> discoverable? >> >> > we don't have easy access to cool things that are going on in OLPC that >> > would get people excited >> > >> > -for example - it would make people excited just to hear accounts of >> > deployments >> >> Could you check out the weekly newsletter published in Walter's blog >> (http://walterbender.org/) and see how much it suits your needs? >> SugarLabs cannot say much about OLPC deployments, but we hope to have >> pilots of our own soon, and hopefully deployments will follow. >> >> > most meetings happen when we are in class and we don't know what >> > happened or >> > give input >> > >> > - especially with commute (it takes us 1;30 hrs to get here) >> >> Most SugarLabs meetings happen on IRC, so you wouldn't have the >> commute issue. Please check out the meeting announcements in the >> sugar-devel and iaep mailing lists and comment if the times don't work >> out for you, we probably can change them. >> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/ >> >> > it's difficult to find out what OLPC does beyond the broad >> > mission-statement >> > sort of thing >> >> Probably, SL could do better as well, can you comment about what's >> missing in Walter's newsletter? >> >> > it took me 6 months to figure out how to use irc, i still don't know >> > where >> > trac is >> >> Definitely a problem. We are thinking about having a landing page >> similar to the one in http://www.eclipse.org/ that hopefully will give >> a way for everybody to find how to better interact with us depending >> on their role. The idea is that a prospecting developer would just >> click on one of those icons and would find a simple explanation of the >> first concepts that need to be grabbed in order to move forward. How >> does that sound? >> >> > olpc-dev list emails are kind of over my head >> >> Yeah, we should understand better this issue. Is a coder-newbies >> mailing list a valid suggestion? >> >> > where are things? (on wiki, etc) >> >> David Farning is working on this, following a never ending list of >> complaints from Greg DeKoenigsberg. >> >> > note - if you teach us how stuff works we can tell more people/translate >> > the >> > information >> >> Totally, we count on you to help us, we are totally aware that by >> ourselves cannot do it. >> >> > I would like to develop activities, but up until now I didn't even know >> > it >> > was up for grabs >> >> Ooops ;) >> >> > Thanks for listening! >> >> Thanks to you, this definitely helps. >> >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> Sugar@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar