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 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? >> >> Hmmm, I think we should not split those up. In my opinion all we >> can do, >> is to point out clearly that all contributions and questions as >> easy or >> as hard they are, are valid and welcome. We all started there, and I >> understand it is not always easy to ask 'stupid' questions, but I >> think >> it is important to produce a culture and atmosphere where this is >> possible. > > A FAQ will help a lot, particularly if somebody takes ownership and > makes sure to capture questions and get answers from the experts. > > A set of introductory programming manuals on Python, PyGame, SciPy, > and Etoys will help more. We can discuss this with FLOSS Manuals. Let > Adam Hyde and me know which ones you would like to have, and which > ones others ask you for.
Just a nit pick, SciPy is much replaced by Numpy though SciPy still overlaps enough the documentation seems pretty useful. ~Was considering a cellular automata type brick coding activity using numpy, sort of turtleart for arrays, and no turtle. Conway's game of life being the basic starting sampler. --Gary > I am working on creating a newsletter for those interested in joining > Sugar work. We have two volunteers so far from Olin Coll. of Eng., > motivated by the fact that they can't find the news on OLPC (Who can?) > and that they have had difficulties finding out how to participate. > Articles on elementary Sugar programming and on opportunities for > activities will be welcome, as will progress reports whenever you have > a significant accomplishment or need help. I sent over my links to > laptop news sources, and some references on a multitude of games that > people can program if they like. We will collect many other resources. > > We will also include suggestions for curriculum, textbooks, and > content. The idea is that anybody can participate, because everybody > knows something that the children need. In particular we need > subject-matter experts (SMEs) in every school subject and every kind > of business, research, government, or whatever. Also artists, writers, > reviewers, testers, localizers, translators, and so on and on. > >> So I argue, to please use sugar-devel for those discussions. > > +1 unless the Sugar Newbies tell us otherwise. We also have other > lists appropriate for content and the rest. > >> Simon >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> > > > > -- > Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/ > دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name > And Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
