On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Caroline Meeks wrote:
World wide there are many programmers paid to create and maintain
activities with strong pedagogical elements intended solely for kids.
Many of these activities are distributed without cost and some are open
source. Some that I'm familiar with are NSDL, PBS Teachers Domain,
Concord Consortium.
I think one of the tasks of the Marketing Team, which I see you head, is
to convince organizations that are already creating activities that they
want to use Sugar as a Learning Platform to deliver their activities.
If we succeed in that then I think that many of these programmers will
also contribute to maintaining and extending Sugar itself, because it
will be code that they are using regularly for their jobs. It will
become their itch.
Brilliant, Caroline. I think you're exactly right. One of our main
missions should be outreach to these developers. I hope you can help
here, since you're clearly more familiar with the space than I am. :)
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