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 in trying to > volunteer effectively. Mel Chua asked me to forward it to these lists, so > here is the list in text format: > > we have to come up with jobs ourselves, and we're not too good at it > > we don't know what we can do that is useful > > when we are told what to do, we have to check with other people to make sure > it's ok Point taken, we need to come up with a good list of interesting things that people can start with. Somewhat related, I keep up a TODO list of things in http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Tomeu that interested people can take from my hands. Wonder how we could make this more discoverable? > we don't have easy access to cool things that are going on in OLPC that > would get people excited > > -for example - it would make people excited just to hear accounts of > deployments Could you check out the weekly newsletter published in Walter's blog (http://walterbender.org/) and see how much it suits your needs? SugarLabs cannot say much about OLPC deployments, but we hope to have pilots of our own soon, and hopefully deployments will follow. > most meetings happen when we are in class and we don't know what happened or > give input > > - especially with commute (it takes us 1;30 hrs to get here) Most SugarLabs meetings happen on IRC, so you wouldn't have the commute issue. Please check out the meeting announcements in the sugar-devel and iaep mailing lists and comment if the times don't work out for you, we probably can change them. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/ > it's difficult to find out what OLPC does beyond the broad mission-statement > sort of thing Probably, SL could do better as well, can you comment about what's missing in Walter's newsletter? > it took me 6 months to figure out how to use irc, i still don't know where > trac is 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 those icons and would find a simple explanation of the first concepts that need to be grabbed in order to move forward. How does that sound? > olpc-dev list emails are kind of over my head Yeah, we should understand better this issue. Is a coder-newbies mailing list a valid suggestion? > where are things? (on wiki, etc) David Farning is working on this, following a never ending list of complaints from Greg DeKoenigsberg. > note - if you teach us how stuff works we can tell more people/translate the > information Totally, we count on you to help us, we are totally aware that by ourselves cannot do it. > I would like to develop activities, but up until now I didn't even know it > was up for grabs Ooops ;) > Thanks for listening! Thanks to you, this definitely helps. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
