As an aside, I don't believe too much in the scratch your own itch
explanation for free software volunteer coding. If you go for example
planet.gnome.org and skim through the posts there while asking to
yourself why these people take the time to write free software instead
of watching TV, I
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 23:23, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:57, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
I wasn't thinking either of posting articles about recruitment on
those places,
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:57, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
I wasn't thinking either of posting articles about recruitment on
those places, rather to get our organization known. Most of the people
that know that Sugar exists think we are part of OLPC, or that we have
funding and a paid
We discussed recently making improvements to the Getting Involved page
( http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-June/001510.html
).
I feel it would serve us to maintain job listings, on the Getting
Involved page, linked to from each team's page and posted at the end
of Walter's Sugar
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:33, Bastienbastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote:
Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com writes:
I agree 100% with Tomeu that recruitment needs to be targeted to where
prequalified candidates are.
So do I. The best tool for FOSS people is good documentation.
Alan Kay
Bastien schrieb:
Sugar should engage developers in *learning* rather than give them
the impression the number of pre-requisites is high. IMHO having a
more self-contained documentation could help.
I totally agree. Having such a self-contained documentation is also the
reason why OLPC
I wasn't thinking either of posting articles about recruitment on
those places, rather to get our organization known. Most of the people
that know that Sugar exists think we are part of OLPC, or that we have
funding and a paid development team or that we have abandoned the OLPC
cause and are
David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org writes:
Of the successful not-for-profits and community organizations I have
studied, one of the common threads is a near maniacal emphasis on the
importance of contributors feeling the impact of their contribution on
the project.
I think it's easier for
One thing that comes to mind here is to guerilla market in irc
channels... usually these are already full of developers and its just
a matter of looking at the projects around, going to their respective
channels, and let them briefly know wht sugar is and ask if they have
time to spend on any
I agree, we need to target for volunteers that already have the skills we
need.
I think there are a lot of open source developers who want to help but don't
think they have the skills we need. For instance I wonder how many eJabber
or Moodle developers know we need them? Our XS side is really
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