On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:07, David Farning <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:17, Martin Langhoff >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> El Wed, 09-06-2010 a las 02:59 -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis escribió: >>>>> However, the 20month+ old F9/0.82, os802 build remains the official XO-1 >>>>> build. >>>> >>>> It's just a formality, nobody has been doing any work on it for years. >>> >>> To clarify: I am working on it. and it mainly helps deployments that >>> are implementing security. It is taking ages because, well, I am doing >>> the work of 5 people. >>> >>> I share Yiorios' concerns. Both OLPC and SL are overreaching wildly. >>> >>> We have to focus on polish, on getting something useful in the hands >>> of children. On making a difference there. We cannot leave XO-1.5 >>> unfinished. We have to hear the SoaS crowd when they point out that >>> very few activities are shippable. >> >> I agree in that focusing is very important. But paradoxically, you can >> be in a situation in which individuals are focused on their work but >> the organization as a whole isn't focused at all. > > One possible approach is for Sugar Labs to focus on being an > innovative upstream while downstreams like Activity Central, SoaS, and > deployments focus on the polish. Activity Central is pulling > deplolyment level polish into Sugar.
Will all those downstreams work on polish separately or will they cooperate and pool resources in a common place? Regards, Tomeu > dav > >> To have focus at the team level we need someone who takes a step back >> from the task at hand and takes a look at where we are and where we >> are supposed to go. >> >> I think teams provide a space for that and allows for different people >> to take that reflective role at periodic times. >> >> We used to have an Activity Team and it actually saw the importance of >> maintaining existing activities so had processes for adoption and for >> finding the resources. Unfortunately, as often happens in efforts like >> ours, the person driving that effort had to attend to other matters >> and the team languished. >> >> But we still have people reading our mailing lists with the skills and >> interest to maintain activities and update them to work on other >> platforms than the XO-1 with 8.2.x, but we lack focus. >> >> Can we find someone who wants to coordinate the team? >> >> It's not such a big role in terms of work, the responsibilities are >> the following: >> >> - keep the mission statement updated in the wiki page >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team , >> >> - keep the members list updated, >> >> - call for biweekly meetings and moderate them, >> >> - publish meeting minutes and logs. >> >> But this relatively small effort can bring the focus we need. >> >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu >> >>> cheers, >>> >>> >>> m >>> -- >>> [email protected] >>> [email protected] -- School Server Architect >>> - ask interesting questions >>> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first >>> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >>> _______________________________________________ >>> olpc mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
