Re: [sugar] [IAEP] 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: [sugar] [IAEP] 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? ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

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

2008-11-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
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 depending on their

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

2008-11-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, this is awesome feedback. I'm going to speak from the SugarLabs perspective. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Elsa Culler [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

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

2008-11-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 -

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

2008-11-23 Thread David Farning
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 deployment COP's. I am still totally confused how to engage educators. There

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

2008-11-23 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hello All. I think of most importance facilitate the access to teachers and others in relation to IRC. mailists etc..they are not tech savvy so we have to lower the barrier access to this tools of communications. Embedding mibbit in the wiki is a way to do so, i've done it in a Wiki and the

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] 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

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] 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