On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Sebastian Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > I see your point about CMS being overkill. > > And I also agree with you, the release cycle anchors everything. > > I for one consider it a bug, not a feature, that we have this division of > channels of communication, as some of the aspects you relate should be > feeding each other more. + 1
The differing methods are _not_ a feature, they are a natural reality which we must accept and overcome. > It is natural because of the different workflows, however I'd like to see > some convergence. > > I'm studying the possible use of a social networking platform (pretty much > deciding on http://pinaxproject.com/ ). > > If I can tweak it to fit our workflows (I'm working with local village > visiting teachers to fit theirs) - in particular, i'm interested in > including some sort of disconnected use (that is, for instance, getting them > a "news/mailing list/new activities feed" from the social network with a USB > monthly, and provide them with a way to "respond" - can be email - can be > manually performed once online. > > This is likely also the tool that will help manage the Bolivia deployment > (but we will likelly have some more connectivity in Bolivia). > > Looking forward to share more as things develop, looking for feedback / > synergy. Thanks, and keep push things back upstream. david > Sebastian > > 2009/2/11 David Farning <[email protected]> >> >> I tend to think that a cms is a bit of overkill for a young organization. >> >> One of my personal long term goal is to determine how we can clone SL >> in Local SLs by reproducing the best practices of SL on a more local >> scale. >> >> Developer side: >> 1. The key component is the release cycle, ever thing else is anchored >> around the release cycle. >> 2. Dynamic communication through mailing lists and irc. >> 3. Static communication through wiki and bug tracker. >> Any thing else is overkill >> >> Educator side: >> 1. Release cycle - cool new features, bug fixes >> 2. Moodle - teachers know moodle >> >> david >> >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello all. >> > >> > I was thinking that maybe Sugar Labs could host, cms like drupal or >> > joomla >> > for Local Labs use, >> > Would be this an overhead for our young infrastructure ? >> > Is it better to Local Labs to have this kind of solutions sorted out >> > locally >> > ? >> > >> > >> > Cheers! >> > Rafael Ortiz >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > -- > Sebastian Silva > Laboratorios FuenteLibre > http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/ > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
