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=== Sugar Digest ===

=== Sugar Digest ===

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.

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 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 ===

=== In the community ===