On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bryan Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 09:21 -0500, David Farning wrote: >> The work going on in Nepal is one of the primary reasons for >> establishing SIGs and projects. Nepal is doing an amazing job of >> creating solutions for local problems. >> >> Sigs/projects are a place where deployments can share ideas and work >> together on solutions for local issues. >> >> A good example of how to progress would be to work through the >> questions on the SIG guidelines at >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . The >> questions are not just bureaucratic hurdles. They represent some of >> the best practices that Eclipse, Apache and Fedora have found helping >> ideas grow into successful projects. You have already worked through >> most of the issues for karma. >> >> The project wiki format is basically the same a a team wiki page. It >> is pretty flexible yet makes it easy for someone to discover what your >> project is all about and how to get involved. >> >> david > > tks for the thoughtful response Dave > > good, then i don't feel bad about using the SL logo :) > > What should the next step for Karma be on the SIG/Project route?
I think that I would start converting the karma wiki page into sig/project to raise its visibility. Then over the next six months of so try to align you release cycle with the larger Sugar release cycle. > I think it will take 6+ months for a governance strategy for Karma to be > worked out. Essentially right now we are just trying to reimplement the > work done in Flash to html5+javascript. Later when different individuals > have differing ideas, we may need some governance. Right now, the main > focus is "How do we convert the talking water buffalo from flash to > html5?" I wouldn't worry to much about governance. The guidelines are set up so that as a sig works through the process, leaders and governance models will emerge. Once the mission, vision, and implement roadmap are in place we can tag karma as a sig. david > Bryan W. Berry > Technology Director > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
