On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:17:56PM -0300, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On 28.07.2009, at 07:22, Martin Dengler wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:24:13PM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > >> However, I feel like it could be better if the community (who I > >> might even stretch to call "customers") could have more influence. > >> [...] What are the options for the community having more of an > >> influence here? > > > > Influence on whom? Developers? There are no SugarLabs employed > > developers. > > > But if we get feedback from the "front line", from teachers actually > using our software in the field, the volunteer developers I know > struggle to find a way to make it easier for them. Nothing beats > direct contact with children of course, but even meeting teachers from > the deployments and hearing first-hand accounts of the problems (and > successes!) is rather motivating. Reading these reports on a mailing > list is less emotionally moving but still a great hint at how to > prioritize one's spare time.
I don't disagree with anything you said, but I'm struggling to see how it's relevant to the OP or my reply. Perhaps by "the volunteer developers I know struggle to find a way to make it easier for them" you're implying that we need to make it easier for volunteer developers to contribute? > The problem is we get way too few feedback. Indeed. > - Bert - Martin
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