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** sugar still has lack of critical mass of participants who contribute on regular bases thus coordination of development efforts is a critical point and we need to track and schedule such efforts in more formal(then posting emails to sugar-devel@ for example) manner<br>e.g. every core team member will all time know what other members are working on and what the progress of current tasks
** sugar still has lack of critical mass of participants who contribute on regular bases thus coordination of development efforts is a critical point and we need to track and schedule such efforts in more formal(then posting emails to sugar-devel@ for example) manner<br>e.g. every core team member will all time know what other members are working on and what the progress of current tasks
** groupware brings benefits for other developers as well<br>if some developer doesn't have enough time to implement request he was working on, he can just expose it via UI(in comparing with sending email to sugar-delvel@ which could not be fair every time) and coordinator/requester/other-developers can track such events
** groupware brings benefits for other developers as well<br>if some developer doesn't have enough time to implement request he was working on, he can just expose it via UI(in comparing with sending email to sugar-delvel@ which could not be fair every time) and coordinator/requester/other-developers can track such events
** tracking what contributors do has also social aspect - any sugar user can see how much particular contributor does for sugar community thus encourage people do more
** tracking what contributors do has also social aspect - any sugar user can see how much particular contributor does for sugar community thus encourage people do more(of course this information is accessible via git repositories or bugs tracker but in case of collab.sl.o it will be given by several clicks for any casual user)
* Place like collab.sugarlabs.org could be the first point where interested in contributing/requesting people can go. It could the right place to have database of all sugar contributors and having sustainability features like donate buttons per contributor.
* Place like collab.sugarlabs.org could be the first point where interested in contributing/requesting people can go. It could the right place to have database of all sugar contributors and having sustainability features like donate buttons per contributor.