Teachers and Edubuntu and more

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 18.01.2010, 19:45 -0600 schrieb Scott Balneaves:
> >    1. a new irc eg "#edubuntu-in-action",
> 
> This one I'm not so sure of.  I'm certainly more than happy to try this and
> see, but I'd want to be in both #edubuntu and #edubuntu-in-action.  I suspect
> most teachers would also like, if they had the opportunity/time, to be in
> contact with the edubuntu devs.  Which begs the question: if the people in
> #edubuntu want to hear from #edubuntu-in-action, and the people in
> #edubuntu-in-action want the help of the people in #edubuntu, why not all just
> hang out in the same channel.
> 
> However, it doesn't cost anything to start another channel, so I personally
> have no objection to having the two.
> 
well, opening one is easy, closing it again isnt. the #ubuntu-education
channel had exactly the above purpose and never took off (regulary there
were three people in it, two of them were the founders and one was
idling constantly, in the end people that came there were redirected to
#edubuntu again since there was the knowledge they actually looked for)
after a long back and forth of discussions we finally managed to close
it again.

i'm not saying you shouldnt open another channel but want to state some
warning from a child that has already been burned before...
 
why not widening the purpose of the existing channel and make that
purpose clear through a proper description on the wiki, website etc ...

on a sidenote i think its better to link the communities of users and
developers closer together, developers need to learn what their users
want and also need to learn what their users dont understand to improve
their software in a usability oriented way, you will only reach that
target if you join the two communities instead of tearing them apart.

ciao
	oli
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