On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 00:40, David Farning<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Sounds great! Tomeu _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
