>> Over the next several months and years a set >> of best pratices, adjusted for cultural differences, will develop. >Yama calls community building an "art", precisely because it doesn't seem > to fit into "how-to" manual models. Maybe people who get communities > running don't read manuals, don't write manuals? different skill sets? Or > maybe it is a good thing, that because communities are organic things they > can be dealt with only by organic things, not by something inherently dead, > as a manual?
I must agree "art" is more than "best practices". Still there are several kinds of voluntary organizations, take Debian for instance. It has a Constitution and a Social Contract (our equivalent: Governance and Principles). So we should now agree on Principles and Goals. Those are pretty clear in http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs Look under Identity. Clear mission: is pretty clear. Affinities and aversions: For instance, i believe we should take a position of at the very least ethically recommending against propietary software and rejecting Windows on the XO. In a way Walter already does this in person. ;-) Our position regarding OLPC's goals and mission should also be clear (why sugarlabs exists - the very name of this mailing list "its an education project"). So our educational position (affinties / aversions) should also appear here (constructivist learning, self learning, community learning, critical thinking). Explicit connections outside: I guess we're working them out now... Perhaps some day we'll have an API for this ;-) -- Sebastian Silva Iniciativa FuenteLibre http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/ _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
