On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:40, Michael Stone<[email protected]> wrote: > Carrying on a fine tradition of July-based Sugar reflections [1, 2], I'm going > to offer some mostly unsolicited advice. (Sorry, Tomeu, but you asked me to > write. :^) > > Dear Sugar Labs, > > In the past year, you succeeded in removing two important barriers to entry > for new developers: you have created a distinctive brand and you freed Sugar > from the XO. > > What's next? Here's a four-part RFC:
All sound pretty good to me, any concrete steps you can suggest? Regards, Tomeu > 1. Could we embrace POSIX and the RESTful Web throughout our software [3]? > > POSIX and HTTP are the mother tongues of our ecosystem and developer base. > By embracing them, we make our software much cheaper to explore and to > modify. > > 2. Could we live more within our packaging? > > This way, our packaging gets tested more quickly, we become more > expert /at/ packaging, we make friends in our distros, we get better > packaging, and our releases become easier! > > 3. Could we make ourselves more interesting to be around, for example by > saying "maybe we could..." or "I have... (and you can too...!)" more > frequently than we say "I can't."? > > Our strengths lie in our big, sexy, /powerful/ ideas. We can't shrink from > these ideas; they sparked our desire to contribute and they will do so for > others. (Otherwise, we will fade.) > > 4. We could do more to help one another to develop as may be necessary to > advance those big, sexy ideas. > > (Anecdote: I don't think any of us here today started off understanding > much about communities, UI design, networking, release management, quality > assurance, or large-scale coding; I just see lots of people who looked for > people who were smarter and more knowledgable than they were and who > worked > really hard to catch up. We should do more of that.) > > xoxoxo, > > Michael > > P.S. - In the spirit of walking the walk, I'll also share one of my own > recent puny efforts in the direction outlined above: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network2 > > Regards, > > Michael > > [1]: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-July/007304.html > [2]: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-July/007390.html > [3]: (With suitable hacks under the covers of FUSE and DNS.) > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
