Wade, You said: " if only we could put every Sugar developer at a deployment for a week."
I am a teacher and doctoral student managing a deployment of 150 XOs/SOAS and would love to have this happen! Gerald On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Wade Brainerd <wad...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org> > wrote: > > All mentioned above could be(already) done in existed env. But the major > > idea of collab.sl.o proposal is bringing life to existed scheme by > > stimulating users to share their needs(due to having convenient > > "ASLO for needs" site). > > Hi Aleksey, > > We definitely need to improve our lines of communication with users > (deployments, teachers, students and casual). As a programmer I > appreciate a good technical solution to this problem. > > I think it's more a personal problem than a tech problem though. E.g. > we need better relationships between developers and users, more than > we need a better form to fill in. And that's really a job for the > project leadership, mostly by introducing people and encouraging them > to follow up. Tomeu's recent visit to Laboratorio Tecnológico del > Uruguay is a great example; if only we could put every Sugar developer > at a deployment for a week. I joined the sur list and use Google > Translate to feel at least a little bit plugged in :) Still, I > occasionally send emails to deployments asking things like "Are you > guys using Typing Turtle?" and "What kinds of activities could you > use?" but rarely hear back. I guess it's a problem when most of the > developers speak one language, and most of the users speak one of many > others. > > > I'm personally for lightweight collab.sl.o(to meet only mentioned above > > issues) and reusing existed development related resources like > > wiki/launchpad/mls for development process. > > What do you think about making this idea into an activity, instead of > a website? We could take my "Report a Problem" control panel and turn > it into a "Feedback" activity. I already have the "log collector" > server set up on SL infrastructure - we could turn the feedback into a > RSS feed for developers who could detect trends. I'm not sure about > the voting stuff - we hardly get any reviews on ASLO as it is, my > Typing Turtle score is down to 3 stars because of one middle school > kid :) > > (BTW, there seems to not be much user representation in the discussion > about 0.88 features, which may provide some motivation for this topic) > > -Wade > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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