Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
Edward Cherlin wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Definitely a problem. We are thinking about having a landing page similar to the one in http://www.eclipse.org/ that hopefully will give a way for everybody to find how to better interact with us

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-25 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Please DON'T introduce more sugarisms like BEET, especially for novices. How are they supposed to know what to put as a tag, even if the tag makes sense? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: Please DON'T introduce more sugarisms like BEET, especially for novices. How are they supposed to know what to put as a tag, even if the tag makes sense? They read it when they subscribe to the mailing list - and find it on the wiki pages for example 'Getting

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-25 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:48, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: Please DON'T introduce more sugarisms like BEET, especially for novices. How are they supposed to know what to put as a tag, even if the tag makes sense? They read it when they

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-25 Thread Simon Schampijer
Luke Faraone wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:48, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: Please DON'T introduce more sugarisms like BEET, especially for novices. How are they supposed to know what to put as a tag, even if the tag makes sense? They read it

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-25 Thread Morgan Collett
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 15:58, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luke Faraone wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:48, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: Please DON'T introduce more sugarisms like BEET, especially for novices. How are they supposed to

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-24 Thread Simon Schampijer
Definitely a problem. We are thinking about having a landing page similar to the one in http://www.eclipse.org/ that hopefully will give a way for everybody to find how to better interact with us depending on their role. The idea is that a prospecting developer would just click on one of

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-24 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Luke Faraone wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:22, Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1  embedding mibbit or cgiirc in our wiki? I'll work on that in [[IRC]], as well as explaining all the different channels. (this will have some duplication from

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Nov 2008, at 22:04, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Definitely a problem. We are thinking about having a landing page similar to the one in http://www.eclipse.org/ that hopefully will give a way for everybody to

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-24 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary C Martin wrote: Just a nit pick, SciPy is much replaced by Numpy though SciPy still overlaps enough the documentation seems pretty useful. This is a typo. You mean that Numeric and Numarray are replaced by NumPy. SciPy is NumPy's sister

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Nov 2008, at 00:52, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary C Martin wrote: Just a nit pick, SciPy is much replaced by Numpy though SciPy still overlaps enough the documentation seems pretty useful. This is a typo. You mean that Numeric and

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-23 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Elsa Culler wrote: Hi, Last night at sugarcamp, we(people from the Olin college OLPC chapter) were asked to come up with a list of roadblocks we have run into in trying to volunteer effectively. Mel Chua asked me to forward it to these lists, so here is the list in text format: Thanks

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elsa Culler wrote: Hi, Last night at sugarcamp, we(people from the Olin college OLPC chapter) were asked to come up with a list of roadblocks we have run into in trying to volunteer effectively. Mel Chua asked

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elsa Culler wrote: Hi, Last night at sugarcamp, we(people from the Olin college OLPC chapter) were asked to come up with a list of

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
This seems like a cool teachable moment if you are interested in learning more about learning theory and vocabulary. The Sugar community is a Community of Practice CoP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice The feedback of the Olin people is on inadequacy of the legitimate

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-23 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
+1 embedding mibbit or cgiirc in our wiki? Tomeu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Caroline, Do have suggestions for other readings about how Communities of Practice form and operate, particularly in the field of education. I feel like I have my head wrapped around documentation, development, and