On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Ben Greenfield <[email protected]> wrote: > I would add Community of Educators
Having given this a bit of thought, I'm going to offer a bit of pushback about this as "brand value." To be sure, this would have been on my list when we started the project, and I would love for SchoolTool to really be based on a community of educators, but it isn't, and is unlikely to be, and we should probably be honest about that. Teachers and principals don't want an SIS that comes with obligations to a community. They just want one that works. They have too much other, more interesting and immediate, stuff to do. And the minority teachers and principals who *are* interested in getting something specific out of their SIS aren't thinking "I need this thing, I'd love to have a discussion with the community about it." They're thinking, "I want this thing, period." We know this from experience. To the extent that a "SchoolTool Community" develops, it is going to be one level up: our developers, integrators like Critical Links, NGO's like OLE Nepal and the Open Institute, and government IT people. Another example would be the community in Virginia around CanDo and SchoolTool. But I would argue it is more accurate in that case to say that SchoolTool has been adapted to the community than those folks have become part of the SchoolTool community. In theory making them part of the SchoolTool community would be cool, but in practice it is just as good or maybe better to just have SchoolTool disappear into their community. Hopefully my critique here does not discourage conversation in this community. ;-) Thoughts? --Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
