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This page is updated each week (usually on Monday morning) with notes from the Sugar Labs community. (The digest is also sent to the community-news at sugarlabs.org list, blogged at [http://walterbender.org/ walterbender.org], and archived [[Sugar Labs/Current Events/Archive|here]].) If you would like to contribute, please send email to [[User:walter|walter]] at sugarlabs.org by the weekend. (Also visit <span class="plainlinks">[http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet.sugarlabs.org].</span>)
 
This page is updated each week (usually on Monday morning) with notes from the Sugar Labs community. (The digest is also sent to the community-news at sugarlabs.org list, blogged at [http://walterbender.org/ walterbender.org], and archived [[Sugar Labs/Current Events/Archive|here]].) If you would like to contribute, please send email to [[User:walter|walter]] at sugarlabs.org by the weekend. (Also visit <span class="plainlinks">[http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet.sugarlabs.org].</span>)
      
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1. Aleksey Lim has started a [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-January/009726.html discussion] about how to better cocordinate—in a more welcoming and friendly manner—our various development activities with the needs of deployments. This complements the Luke Faraone's [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-December/009668.html thread] from a few weeks ago about a redesign of the website, based in part from feedback from the Babson team's [[:File:Sugar_Deployment_in_US_Schools_Report.pdf|study of Sugar Labs]]. The gist of the various conversations is that we need to tackle a typical Free-Software project issue: how can we make the project more friendly and accessible to non-technical people; and, related, manage the explosion of pages, sites, points of view on the project without limiting expression on the part of individual contributors. Part of the answer certainly lies in providing a bit more structure to our website. Part of the answer likely lies in more outreach to where the non-techies hang out. (I had put together a survey last year for the teachers in Uruguay to solicit feedback on this topic, but alas, it was never conducted.) I am not sure we know what are the best channels for reaching teachers, parents, etc. In any case, it is an important issue for us. Please contribute to the discussion.
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1. Aleksey Lim has started a [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-January/009726.html discussion] about how to better coordinate—in a more welcoming and friendly manner—our various development activities with the needs of deployments. This complements the Luke Faraone's [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-December/009668.html thread] from a few weeks ago about a redesign of the website, based in part from feedback from the Babson team's [[:File:Sugar_Deployment_in_US_Schools_Report.pdf|study of Sugar Labs]]. The gist of the various conversations is that we need to tackle a typical Free-Software project issue: how can we make the project more friendly and accessible to non-technical people; and, related, manage the explosion of pages, sites, points of view on the project without limiting expression on the part of individual contributors. Part of the answer certainly lies in providing a bit more structure to our website. Part of the answer likely lies in more outreach to where the non-techies hang out. (I had put together a survey last year for the teachers in Uruguay to solicit feedback on this topic, but alas, it was never conducted.) I am not sure we know what are the best channels for reaching teachers, parents, etc. In any case, it is an important issue for us. Please contribute to the discussion.
    
=== In the community ===
 
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12. Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past week of discussion on the IAEP mailing list (Please see [[:File:2009-Dec-26-Jan-1-som.jpg
 
12. Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past week of discussion on the IAEP mailing list (Please see [[:File:2009-Dec-26-Jan-1-som.jpg
 
|SOM]]).
 
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=== Community News archive ===
 
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