Yesterday Tomeu and Ivan were discussing the work of Eric Von Hippel. Eric's field of research is user driven innovation.
After reading Democratizing Innovation, I highly recommend it to anyone inolved in Sugar Labs. It ranks up there with the Starfish and the Spider as valuable reads. After getting over my knee jerk reaction of, 'Anyone can have a good idea. It is turning the idea into a reality that is the challenge.' I have to say the book has several important points for Sugar Labs participants. One of the challenges we face for the next release is broadening the community. Ideally we would like engage activity authors who are _not_ primarily developers. We need to cross over so that teachers, parents, and graphic artists feel comfortable. Eric talks about how to identify and leverage the skills and knowledge of lead-users. I have been referring to this group as 'early adopters'. Lead-user is much more appropriate. Democratizing Innovation provide us with several other terms and concepts as we reach out to those parents and teachers david _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
