Zitat von Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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
Could trac with a very simplified UI maybe do the trick? Christoph _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
