I volunteer to help organize this, and to be the Ambassador to several groups, including state governments, textbook writers, and education researchers. The reason is that I am doing those things already. I am in contact with Gov. Pat Quinn's office in Illinois; Obama education advisor Linda Darling-Hamilton at Stanford; and the people and organizations listed on the [[Creating textbooks]] page, among others. Some of us expect to have some announcements over the summer.
Let's start thinking about the stakeholders we need to bring into the process. o Teachers o Ed. schools o Politicians o School Boards o Students o Parents o Textbook authors and publishers o Software developers o Subject-matter experts o Curriculum developers as individuals and organizations, in each case. Who else? On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM, David Farning<[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > Below is a thread on Sugar ambassadors from last week. I meant to > send it to iaep with a few follow on cc's. Looks like I left off > iaep. > > david > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Farning <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:59 PM > Subject: Sugar Ambassadors > To: Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]>, Caroline Meeks > <[email protected]>, Walter Bender <[email protected]> > > > We have hinted around the edges several times about the importance of > an ambassadors program for Sugar Labs. > > The basic idea behind the ambassadors programs is to help people such > as Caryl feel like they have what they need to effectively communicate > to various groups about Sugar and Sugar Labs. > > At some levels this is a marketing issue but at other levels, this is > a community building issue. > > I am willing to get the program started. I would like to hand it off > to someone with actual social skills as soon as possible. At the > OLPCFrance day of SugarCamp, I was much more comfortable sitting > upstairs with Scott Meeks and Gary Martin than talking and mingling. > > We can start by collecting a list of interesting events and a set of > inspiring resources. > > From there we can organically let the natural 'ambassadors' learn what > works for their local events and share those best practices with each > other. > > Should we roll this into the marketing team for now and split off when > we get to big for the marketers to handle us? Yep, that is a > challenge:) > > david > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
