On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:22, Christoph Derndorfer <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> > <slight general rant> > I generally feel like there's still a real lack of activities aimed at > teaching, learning and practicing basic skills such as writing, speaking, > using the keyboard/touchpad, learning basic Mathematics, etc. This is > *exactly* what primary schools all around the world are doing yet I think we > haven't done a great job at addressing this when it comes to providing > appropiate activities. > </slight general rant> This gives me an opportunity for ranting myself ;) >From time to time someone shows frustration because SLs hasn't been able to achieve something. This in itself is a great thing to happen because shows an opportunity to get closer to our goals. But isn't actually useful unless we accompany that burst of energy with the will of putting in place whatever is needed for that something to be achieved. In this particular case, we could ask the Activity team coordinator to call for a meeting and add it to the agenda. If the team likes the goal but it turns out that there aren't available resources for tackling the specific work that derives from that goal, we could see if the Community team wants to add to their TODO list finding people interested in working on that kind of activities. We again request the community manager to add to their meeting agenda this item, the community team meets and sees if their recruitment strategy is adequate or if it can be improved in order to find activity developers. It may seem that I'm proposing adding bureaucracy for the sake of it or that I want to put bosses on top of volunteers, but rather what I'm saying is that unless we give visibility to issues, explicitly discuss things and people take ownership of responsibility areas, most things won't happen. So I want to know: do people agree that a team structure with named coordinators and members could help us do more and better, or are people happy with just hoping that someone will fall from the sky and do the right stuff? Regards, Tomeu > Cheers, > Christoph > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > co-editor, olpcnews > url: www.olpcnews.com > e-mail: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
