On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:53, Bastien<[email protected]> wrote: > Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> writes: > >> Wonder what we could do so that these other projects feel more >> welcomed to our community and more collaboration opportunities are >> taken. Any ideas? > > If we take Gcompris as an example of such project, I guess ideas of > collaboration are more likely to come from Gcompris/Sugar users. > > I don't read OLPC Sur as I don't speak spanish. It looks like I miss a > lot. I would be happy to share Gcompris/Sugar feedback with the larger > Gcompris community in France, but I would need this feedback to be more > accessible: in english, on a blog, etc. > > This way I Gcompris users would have more incentives to test Sugar.
Yeah, I see connecting the different Sugar communities around the world and fostering collaboration as one of the most interesting problems that Sugar Labs faces. Local Labs are a piece on this puzzle, but I would like to see more spontaneous action there. This page is a start to give some structure to Sugar around the world: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Places Ideally, people would be able to push their local issues directly to any team at the global Sugar Labs, but also would be possible to pull feedback from the deployments through that list of contacts. Language is an issue, but it's also a matter of GCompris users in Uruguay knowing how the software is developed and what channels exist to talk with the people who do it. There's a huge amount of work ahead to educate everybody about what free software is and how it gets developed and deployed, from NGO managers to politicians, with teachers and parents in between. I hope one day we'll have some kind of "Sugar newsletters" that get translated in several languages and are sent directly to teachers and students, containing articles, interviews to people like Bruno, etc. This could help give some more cohesion to our so broad community Regards, Tomeu > -- > Bastien > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
