I will start going through and cleaning thing up the wiki this weekend. Should I create a TestingTeam area?
david Sorry for falling behind. I met several students and facility members from the University of Wisconsin this week. It is going to take a while to catch up on all of the leads our discussions have generated. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Caroline Meeks >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The Getting Involved page was blank when I got there. We should have >> > something there! at a bare minimum a link to how to help test, but >> surely >> > there are more ways we want people to get involved? >> >> Ooops, how did you get to that page? It's about getting involved with >> the release team (probably something that most people will not want to >> do :P). > > > Wow! That is a good question. yesterday I pressed the Green navbar "Getting > Involved" and got to that page. I just assumed there was one "getting > involved page" and that all links that looked exactly same and were in > exactly the same place all actually went to the same page (silly me!). ;) > Today I'm trying to repeat my path and I see that there are many getting > involved pages under different sections of the site. I can't figure out how > I got to the one I edited yesterday! > > > >> >> >> I totally agree that we should have a prominent "Getting involved" >> page which should point people to things like testing. I guess ideally >> this page would introduce the various teams and point to their main >> page? (each of the team pages has his own getting involved section). > > > So in my explorations of 17 zillion getting involved pages I found this > one. > > http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/GettingInvolved > > This is a start. > > The Sugar philosophy is we start with simple tools but allow students to > progress to very complex levels. The volunteer philosophy should mirror > that. We should have simple ways to help and get started and clear paths > towards people becoming deeply involved using complex skills and talents. > > > >> >> The wiki is quite a mess right now. I think we need a much simpler >> landing page, with links about the most important things (Get sugar, >> Get involved, Submit bugs...). People can dig deeper from there. Now >> that we are trying to drag more external attention on the project, I >> think it's critical that the web site communicates effectively. >> >> Any volunter for a wiki re-org? :) >> >> I like a lot the team based approach that David proposed a while ago, >> but I think it's time for a big cleanup. I'd be glad to get involved >> in such an effort but I need to stay mainly focused on development and >> hence I would prefer if someone else could lead it. > > > +1 > >> >> >> Marco >> > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax >
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