{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues/783","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ev3dev/ev3dev","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues/783/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues/783/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues/783/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues/783","id":190530833,"number":783,"title":"Look into options for promoting ev3dev as an educational tool","user":{"login":"WasabiFan","id":3310349,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3310349?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/WasabiFan","html_url":"https://github.com/WasabiFan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WasabiFan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WasabiFan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WasabiFan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WasabiFan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WasabiFan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WasabiFan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WasabiFan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WasabiFan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WasabiFan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":108600821,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ev3dev/ev3dev/labels/planning","name":"planning","color":"fbca04","default":false}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":42,"created_at":"2016-11-20T00:40:57Z","updated_at":"2016-12-09T11:11:44Z","closed_at":null,"body":"At this point, I think we have a reasonably stable platform with good support and plans for a stable release. Along with that milestone, I think we should start considering what we can do to make ev3dev known more widely and promote it for use by users that aren't the \"core\" developers we have so far. One of the big user groups that I imagine this applying to is educators: people who are teaching textual programming and need an engaging way to do it. This effort would require some preparation and planning, so I wanted to get some discussion started now to see what comes out of it.\r\n\r\nThe most obvious part of this push would be to update the website with language explaining the potential here. With some tweaks to the jumbotron and three-column group at the top of the homepage, we could spin the platform as the \"versatile software environment\" that we hope it can be. Additionally, it would make sense to add a featurette section lower down specifically targeted at this \"education\" demographic; such a section could pitch ev3dev with a link to a more fully-developed page.\r\n\r\nPast that, it would be nice to look into something more direct. I know that we have community members who are already working on using ev3dev like this (@ndward I believe is one great example), so we have a good start on this. Getting in contact with early users and hearing from them on how they've leveraged ev3dev (or, more likely, how they plan to) would be a great way to improve the platform and gain credibility quickly in site content.\r\n\r\nFinally, we should look into ways of gaining broader user feedback. Engagement is something that we currently don't promote explicitly, yet getting information on what we are doing well and what we aren't is an easy and self-maintaining way of improving.\r\n\r\nMy hope is that I personally can devote some of my time directly to this; I think that I am most valuable in planning and producing user-focused experiences, and a bit of work in this regard could be extremely valuable.\r\n\r\nWhat do others think? What can we do to further these goals, and is there something else that needs to be considered? Tangibly, when and how should we begin implementing these ideas?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues/comments/265990059","html_url":"https://github.com/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues/783#issuecomment-265990059","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues/783","id":265990059,"user":{"login":"ndward","id":9800891,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9800891?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ndward","html_url":"https://github.com/ndward","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ndward/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ndward/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ndward/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ndward/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ndward/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ndward/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ndward/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ndward/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ndward/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-12-09T11:11:44Z","updated_at":"2016-12-09T11:11:44Z","body":"I have made this page https://sites.google.com/site/gask3t/lego-ev3/building-plans/educator-vehicle-retail-kit-version to show how the building instructions for the official Lego Educator Vehicle can be modified to suit the home (retail) version of the EV3 kit without buying additional parts. Of course an educator vehicle based on the home kit will not have a gyro sensor and will have an IR sensor in place of the US sensor. Most of the official exercises will work with this modified version, though some scripts may also need modification - see https://sites.google.com/site/ev3python/learn_ev3_python/basics ."}}
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