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Activity Team/Development Sprint

2009-03-08T03:01:53Z

Jgotangco:

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== Introduction ==

This is a (under-development) plan for a 4-week Activity devlopment cycle using a deployment with liaisons and a remote/distributed development team. The end product will be a tested and deployed curricular unit based around a Sugar Activity (or Activities), with supporting materials/webpages and Activities developed as needed.

We're currently in planning stages getting all the teams involved together, and should kick off with a deployment in the Philippines sometime in April/May 2009. Regular classes in the Philippines start in June. This page will change regularly; add it to your watchlist and stay tuned if you're interested.

== Development schedule ==

The schedule is based on weekly cycles, with a meeting between deployment and development teams at the start of each week, and an email check-in at the end.

=== Week 1: Requirements and Design ===

Meeting: Kickoff, have a big chat with teachers and developers where the teachers drive the meeting and talk about what they're trying to teach, what their goals and constraints are; engineers and designers ask questions and try to come up with requirements.

Then go off for a frantic week of prototyping and brainstorming multiple implementation ideas, designers storyboard a lot, make some template games (likely with ugly code and graphics)

=== Week 2: Single Prototype refinement ===

Meeting: Teachers give feedback on the multiple designs, and pick one, describing how they'd see the Activities used in their classrooms.

The week is spent coding the backbone of the Activity, and that's when the artists start doing their work on the actual game graphics, and the content writers / curriculum folks start writing actual lesson plans.

=== Week 3: Student Alpha testing ===

Meeting: introduce the students to the development team. The students are facilitated by the teachers and by local techies who know about software user testing.

Their feedback is now what the devs are iterating on for this week of development (hopefully with multiple brief testing sessions and meetups throughout the week, in addition to the major "here's how to test" intro meeting of the week).

Note that the students enter the picture halfway through this cycle because we're assuming we're working with young children - 7 and below. Older students, or students with teachers willing to facilitate and guide their feedback, can participate in the entire cycle.

=== Week 4: Code Freeze and First Deployment ===

Folks on the ground deploy, developers sit back and work on documentation of the project so that others can use what they've built.

=== Afterwards ===

Then broadcast everything in a nice written-up package to the rest of the world.

We're done.

Deployment Team/Places

2009-02-23T14:39:20Z

Jgotangco: /* Asia */

=== Introduction ===

This page lists the places in the world where Sugar is used along with a contact person that will facilitate communication between the global and the local communities.

The column "# of members" is intended to give a rough estimation of the size of the local community and may include children, educators, parents, volunteers, etc

=== Asia ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Nepal
| Nepali
| 40
| [[USER:BryanWB|Bryan Berry]], Rabi Karmacharya
|-
| Quezon City, Philippines
| Filipino, English
| 30
| [[USER:Jgotangco|Jerome Gotangco]]
|}

=== Africa ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Ethiopia
| Amharic
| ?
| ?
|}

=== America ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Colombia
| Spanish
| 7
| RafaelOrtiz
|-
| Peru
| Spanish
| ?
| Hernan Pachas?
|-
| Uruguay
| Spanish
| ?
| Pablo Flores?
|-
| Boston, USA
| English
| ?
| Caroline Meeks?
|}

=== Europe ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Graz, Austria
| German
| ?
| David Van Assche?
|}

=== Oceania ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Solomon Islands
| Pijin, Marovo
| ?
| David Leeming?
|}

User:Jgotangco

2009-02-23T14:38:40Z

Jgotangco: /* Jerome S. Gotangco */

=Jerome S. Gotangco=

Doing what I can for Sugar in my community here in Quezon City, Philippines!

==Contact information==

'''Email:''' jgotangco@gmail.com 
'''Blog:''' http://blog.gotangco.com 
'''Twitter:''' http://www.twitter.com/JeromeGotangco

User:Jgotangco

2009-02-23T14:37:43Z

Jgotangco: /* Contact information */

=Jerome S. Gotangco=

Currently involved with organization and pretty much all around guy at the moment for OLPC Philippines (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines)

==Contact information==

'''Email:''' jgotangco@gmail.com 
'''Blog:''' http://blog.gotangco.com 
'''Twitter:''' http://www.twitter.com/JeromeGotangco

Deployment Team/Places

2009-02-23T14:34:28Z

Jgotangco: added details for Manila, Philippines

=== Introduction ===

This page lists the places in the world where Sugar is used along with a contact person that will facilitate communication between the global and the local communities.

The column "# of members" is intended to give a rough estimation of the size of the local community and may include children, educators, parents, volunteers, etc

=== Asia ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Nepal
| Nepali
| 40
| [[USER:BryanWB|Bryan Berry]], Rabi Karmacharya
|-
| Manila, Philippines
| Filipino, English
| 30
| [[USER:Jgotangco|Jerome Gotangco]]
|}

=== Africa ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Ethiopia
| Amharic
| ?
| ?
|}

=== America ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Colombia
| Spanish
| 7
| RafaelOrtiz
|-
| Peru
| Spanish
| ?
| Hernan Pachas?
|-
| Uruguay
| Spanish
| ?
| Pablo Flores?
|-
| Boston, USA
| English
| ?
| Caroline Meeks?
|}

=== Europe ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Graz, Austria
| German
| ?
| David Van Assche?
|}

=== Oceania ===

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Region
! Languages
! # of members
! Contact
|-
| Solomon Islands
| Pijin, Marovo
| ?
| David Leeming?
|}

User:Jgotangco

2008-10-09T14:30:41Z

Jgotangco: New page: =Jerome S. Gotangco= Currently involved with organization and pretty much all around guy at the moment for OLPC Philippines (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines) ==Contact informa...

=Jerome S. Gotangco=

Currently involved with organization and pretty much all around guy at the moment for OLPC Philippines (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Philippines)

==Contact information==

'''Email:''' jgotangco@gmail.com 
'''WWW:''' http://www.gotangco.com 
'''Blog:''' http://engage.wordpress.com 
'''Twitter:''' http://www.twitter.com/JeromeGotangco

If you wish to contact me by voice, or check my schedule of activities, my blog has the details