[sugar] [Grassroots-l] creation of local feedback groups
Christoph Derndorfer
e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Apr 23 13:56:34 EDT 2008
Zitat von Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> Zitat von Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com>:
>> > Tomeu,
>> >
>> > tomeu wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> now that a considerable number of people are starting to use the first
>> >> minimally complete version of Sugar, may be a good moment to discuss
>> >> and agree on which is the best way for feedback to reach us the
>> >> developers.
>> >
>> > This is the right idea. The key would be for the coordinators of the
>> > local feedback groups to summarize but not filter or bias the response
>> > w/ their own concerns. Most local volunteers are tech-oriented (like
>> > myself) and it is easy for us alter the feedback we get or selectively
>> > hear or magnify the responses that match our own.
>> >
>> > We need info from groups that don't use the tools of open-source trade
>> > -- wikis, mailing lists, IRC.
>> >
>> > We will be providing a lot of feedback from our pilots starting this
>> > Friday. How should we send that feedback to the Sugar Team?
>> >
>> > the best persons on the OLE Nepal team to provide this feedback are
>> > Kamana Regmi and Bipul Gautam, two teachers who are not familiar w/
>> > wikis, IRC, mailing lists, etc. It would be easiest if they had an
>> > e-mail address to send their responses to. They would be very confused
>> > by the tech talk on Sugar-Request and Devel-Request.
>>
>> I agree that it's absolutely necessary to keep the barrier to entry for
>> this feedback as low as possible. While e-mails are certainly a good
>> start I'd like to see the submitted information also be added to an
>> online-database because I find mailing-list archives to be a consistent
>> pain the ass when it comes to retrieving previous communication and
>> information. A searchable and taggable database would certainly make
>> that easier.
>>
>> Plus we also have to consider the fact that many of the people giving
>> the most valuable feedback (=teachers) might not even speak English and
>> it would be important to keep a record of their original feedback
>> somewhere.
>>
>> In terms of the organizational structure it might make sense to have
>> some sort of feedback-liaison in each group. So for example if OLPC
>> people on the ground in Peru want to find out what's happening in Nepal
>> they'd just have to contact one person directly instead of asking their
>> way around. Should we maybe set up a wiki page for that kind of
>> information?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>>
>>
>>
>> > If I summarize the input I will inevitably filter the information and
>> > magnify what I think is coolest.
>
> Ok, so sending email directly to the mailing lists may be too
> inconvenient, and we don't have yet a database like the one Christoph
> described. Can we use anything else in the short term, see how well it
> suits our needs, and then go back from there?
>
> Tomeu
Could trac with a very simplified UI maybe do the trick?
Christoph
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