On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Caroline Meeks <carol...@solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> > For the teachers, I am trying out Launchpad as our place to communicate > between teachers and community. I don't want to over load them with either > all of our discusisons, IAEP or Sugar Devel. Its my theory that they do not > have time for tons of email and don't have the well practice email coping > skills you and I have. > But all theories. Open for discussion. I agree with not overloading the teachers. Unfiltered sugar-devel is not something for which most (any?) teachers are likely to have the time let alone the interest. On the other hand, letting them know what is going on about things directly related to their school would keep them in the loop.. I have a bias against something like Launchpad for keeping people generally informed of the 'state of the environment'. It's great for tracking things, but it's a pull rather then push tool. You have to more or less go there to find things out about what is going on. Email just flows by and you can learn about what is going on when you have the time and ignore/delete it when you don't. Obviously if traffic is too high people will just tune out entirely. 'Too high' is different for everyone, but is going to be higher the more connected the traffic is to something you are already actively involved in. Discussing how to fix problems at GPA is going to be much more interesting (if not completely understood) then random email. I would hope this would keep them more engaged. BTW, I haven't used it myself; but I've heard good things about RT (Request Tracker) software. http://bestpractical.com/rt/. It structures email so that you have the tracking ability of something like Launchpad, but the informality of email. Or at least that's my impression from hearing about it from various people. Unfortunately, I don't know of any free hosting for RT. > See you tomorrow? I don't recall knowing anything about what's going on tomorrow. In any case, I'm not in the position to be anywhere anyway. Bill _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel