On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zitat von Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Tomeu, > > > > tomeu wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> now that a considerable number of people are starting to use the first > >> minimally complete version of Sugar, may be a good moment to discuss > >> and agree on which is the best way for feedback to reach us the > >> developers. > > > > This is the right idea. The key would be for the coordinators of the > > local feedback groups to summarize but not filter or bias the response > > w/ their own concerns. Most local volunteers are tech-oriented (like > > myself) and it is easy for us alter the feedback we get or selectively > > hear or magnify the responses that match our own. > > > > We need info from groups that don't use the tools of open-source trade > > -- wikis, mailing lists, IRC. > > > > We will be providing a lot of feedback from our pilots starting this > > Friday. How should we send that feedback to the Sugar Team? > > > > the best persons on the OLE Nepal team to provide this feedback are > > Kamana Regmi and Bipul Gautam, two teachers who are not familiar w/ > > wikis, IRC, mailing lists, etc. It would be easiest if they had an > > e-mail address to send their responses to. They would be very confused > > by the tech talk on Sugar-Request and Devel-Request. > > I agree that it's absolutely necessary to keep the barrier to entry for > this feedback as low as possible. While e-mails are certainly a good > start I'd like to see the submitted information also be added to an > online-database because I find mailing-list archives to be a consistent > pain the ass when it comes to retrieving previous communication and > information. A searchable and taggable database would certainly make > that easier. > > Plus we also have to consider the fact that many of the people giving > the most valuable feedback (=teachers) might not even speak English and > it would be important to keep a record of their original feedback > somewhere. > > In terms of the organizational structure it might make sense to have > some sort of feedback-liaison in each group. So for example if OLPC > people on the ground in Peru want to find out what's happening in Nepal > they'd just have to contact one person directly instead of asking their > way around. Should we maybe set up a wiki page for that kind of > information? > > Cheers, > Christoph > > > > > If I summarize the input I will inevitably filter the information and > > magnify what I think is coolest.
Ok, so sending email directly to the mailing lists may be too inconvenient, and we don't have yet a database like the one Christoph described. Can we use anything else in the short term, see how well it suits our needs, and then go back from there? Tomeu _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
