Congrats Pablo!! :-) Christoph
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Pablo Flores <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the announcement. As David says, I will have the big challenge > of directing AC, a company which has at the core of its business providing > services for deployments using the Sugar learning platform. > > I've been involved in the olpc/sugar ecosystem since 2007 (for more info > about me, please see my > profile<http://plus.google.com/u/0/104046304533768660303/about>and follow me > in google+). Much of my work was as a volunteer, having a > strong focus on promoting the community work. One year ago I was hired by > AC to work in the company's community outreach area, where I could work in > promoting events like eduJAM, Sugar Day Junín, Mexico City Sugar workshop > and Sugar Camp Lima. Sugar is based on the great work that the whole > community systematically does for it, to which I hope AC can contribute > even more in this new stage. > > AC provides deployments with technical solutions tailored to their > particular needs, promoting at the same time the community growth by > supporting local labs, hiring outstanding programmers, upstreaming code and > sharing knowledge. In my vision, these professional services are required > to keep the ecosystem healthy and it's our biggest challenge doing this > sustainably. > > I won’t be much online in the last weeks of December as I'll take some > days off before assuming the new position, but I’m very open to receiving > by email or in #sugar IRC your doubts, suggestions, criticisms or ideas, as > I want to keep the contact fluid. > > Stay in touch! > > Regards, > Pablo Flores > activitycentral.com > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, David Farning < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I am proud to announce that we are promoting Pablo Flores as the new >> CEO of Activity Central. >> >> Pablo has a strong background in all things OLPC and Sugar from his >> time at Plan Ceibal, leadership in Ceibal Jam, and most recently >> as community architect for Activity Central. >> >> Pablo and the rest of the Activity Central team will continue the core >> AC mission of providing service and support for deployments. >> >> I will continue my work in the Sugar/OLPC ecosystem by focusing on the >> junction point between deployment technical teams and education teams. >> My research so far has lead me to the notion of learning objects. >> While poorly defined in the education literature, the vocabulary around >> learning objects seems to lends itself to the intersection of technical >> personal and education personal in early childhood education. >> >> david >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: [email protected]
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