There's a planning meeting on Monday. Peter
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:11 PM, John Tierney <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am trying to figure out upcoming schedule for SoaS V4. From my reading > of Fedora 14 release schedule which from my new understanding applies > directly to the next Sugar on a Stick release the two upcoming dates that > are super important are: > > 2010-07-13 Feature Submission Deadline > > and > > 2010-07-27 Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends > > Do all Activities and Features we might want to include have to be > identified by July 13th? > > What shape or state of workability must these activities or features be in > to be included? > > What is the process and what is allowed between July 13th and Feature Freeze > on > July 27th. > > I am pushing these questions to the list now because this opportunity was > missed > in the maze of multiple communication threads last time around. > > Have we done the job to alert Activity Developers Maintainers that their > activities must > be in a specific state to be part of SoaS V4.? > > If we answer the information is in the Wik iand in the SoaS threads, I think > we are falling short > in the area of engaging and successful communication. In a few recent > threads I have been pushing > the developer/coding side to begin to offer visuals of the processes they > use and adhere to because > many of less tech-oriented simply don't understand the process and get more > confused bouncing around > multiple wiki's trying to put puzzle together. > > These visuals will create very strong recruiting tools for those of us > involved in Facilitation and Outreach. > I would happily do it myself but I simply don't understand the technical > processes or inter-relationships involved, > precisely why these visuals are needed. > > If we can stop for a moment and capture much of what we are doing in this > visual sense > we will make it enormously easier for people to join and actively > participate in the community. > > We must always remember the Key contributor we are trying to get on board is > the Elementary > Teacher and Students. There time is Scarce-it is up to us to present our > information in a way > that takes into account that reality. If we take a little extra time to > save them time the > ability to get Sugar into the hands of more Children will be served well. > > Best! > > John Tierney > > > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
