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==Me and the community==

==Me and the community==

''> If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.''

'''''> If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.'''''

Me: If this project is successfully completed, the users will have instant access to a discussion platform on which they can ask any question related to sugar. Over time, this information will develop itself into a repository of information where most common questions related to the platform would be present. This repository of information will be hugely beneficial for the sugar community.

* Me: If this project is successfully completed, the users will have instant access to a discussion platform on which they can ask any question related to sugar. Over time, this information will develop itself into a repository of information where most common questions related to the platform would be present. This repository of information will be hugely beneficial for the sugar community.

[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter Walter]: People are social and learning is social. Having a forum for sharing ideas and help is invaluable -- especially in light of the decentralized nature of the Sugar community. While the developer community is comfortable with IRC, we have not been successful in getting our user community to use it: they are seeming more comfortable with web tools (e.g. there is a large community of teachers using Facebook to discuss Sugar.) It would of course be better to have a FOSS solution. But also one that didn't require a lot of maintenance and support by the Sugar developer community. Hence, a connection to an existing FOSS platform would be attractive.

* [https://github.com/svineet Sai Vineet]: There is currently no way to get instant help from real people from inside Sugar, except the IRC activity, which sadly is too complicate and distributed(hard to find stuff which one needs, no logs, there are security problems). We really need a way to get children help quickly, and this is what this project will give us. It will, with time, also become a full help repository, and also a way for children to talk and discuss things in a more social manner than it is now. Thus the Social Help project is invaluable to Sugar and it's vision, that learning is a social process.

''> What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?''

'''''> What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?'''''

Normally in such cases, I like to leave the problem for a little while, work on something else, then come back to the problem. This usually helps me take a new angle on the problem and normally, this resolves the problem. However, if I'm still stuck, then, I'll try to contact other members of the sugar community who are familiar with the components that I'm working on.

Normally in such cases, I like to leave the problem for a little while, work on something else, then come back to the problem. This usually helps me take a new angle on the problem and normally, this resolves the problem. However, if I'm still stuck, then, I'll try to contact other members of the sugar community who are familiar with the components that I'm working on.

''> How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?''

 

'''''> How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?'''''

I shall write a report every one or two weeks (depending on the distribution of components) of all the work done the previous week(s) - all the problems that I faced, how I solved those and what I plan to do in the coming week. This would be a good way to stay on schedule.

I shall write a report every one or two weeks (depending on the distribution of components) of all the work done the previous week(s) - all the problems that I faced, how I solved those and what I plan to do in the coming week. This would be a good way to stay on schedule.