This thread is an attempt to help clean up a couple of issues that have been cropping up over the past couple of months.
There have been a couple of instances of suboptimal communication between different parts of the project. Several times recently, external organizations have been looking for a big picture view of what is happening at Sugar Labs. The .84 release was pretty easy to coordinate. The development team picked a release date about six months after .82. The developers followed the time line pretty well. Simon did a fantastic just with just a stick and a handful of carrots as release manager getting getting the release shipped on time. The only two external organizations we worked with closely were Fedora and OLPC. With the midterm release of Strawberry, we have seen the importance of improving communication with more internal groups and external organizations. Internally, we have seen the importance of synchronizing development, marketing, and the project as a whole's time lines and goals. Externally, we have seen a significant increase in external organization participation. Several university have express interested in working with SL. Several distributions are becoming more involved. Several new pilots and deployments are participating in Sugar development rather than just consuming Sugar. A first step will be to start working on project and team level road maps which assign dates and champions to significant events. Sugar Labs and each team already have roadmap pages listed. Over the next couple of weeks, I would like to work with the development, SoaS, marketing, infrastructure teams to create roadmaps and goals. (This is not to exclude any other teams participation.) Then using iteration and project level goals we can start linking the roadmaps together. david -- David Farning Sugar Labs www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
