2009/4/9 David Farning <[email protected]>: > I would like to recommend the we plan on holding the May MiniCamp in > Paris around the weekend of May 16.
+1 Can we book our tickets now? ;) Tomeu > The primary benefit of Paris is co-locating with a scheduled OLPC > France event being held that weekend. The opportunity to meet with > OLPC France presents some great opportunities to work together; Going > to meet the community in their homes, identifying lead users, > receiving vital feedback. > > By going to work with OLPC France, we can communicate that while Sugar > Labs is an upstream part, it is not the central part of the 'iaep' > project. The most important part is where the student and teacher > come together to learn. Sugar Labs is focused on creating a great > learning platform to benefit the entire ecosystem. In this role, > Sugar Labs serves as a hub for communication and collaboration. > > Secondly, Sugar Labs needs to identify and engage _lead_users_. Sugar > in not yet ready to be sold in retail stores nor is it ready for > _easy_ deployment around the world. There is still a lot of work in > making sure the software works on your hardware, setting up a > collaboration server, and creating the learning content to match daily > lesson plans. Lead users are people with passion or a particular > expertise who have the motivation and ability to help improve the > Sugar experience... for everyone. > > Finally, working for the weekend with OLPC France allow us both to > observe and receive feedback. Sugar Labs can learn more about what > OLPC France is doing and what their needs are. OLPC France can learn > that Sugar Labs is _just_ a group of volunteers with a working > knowledge of computer science, education theory, and a bit of > economics trying to help kids learn more effectively. Sugar Labs > success is based on the premise of creating and fostering a ecosystem > to build on top of the learning platform. > > There may be limited travel stipends available to people willing to > hold workshops. > > david > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
