[math4] RIT and the Fedora Developers XO Program

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Steve Buck wrote:

> Is this something that we may want to get going at other uni's?  My
> brother is a professor in the UMASS system.  I could see if there is an
> interested at his school.

I'd love to see professors picking up on this.  It dovetails with another 
theme I'm pushing in a more professional capacity: getting professors 
involved directly in open source projects.

> Also are we looking for teachers to be involved from a non-technical
> perspective?

Absolutely.  The sooner the better.  Frankly, I think this has been a 
weakness of both Sugar Labs and OLPC since the very beginning.  An 
understandable one: it's harder to engage teachers.  But it's absolutely 
necessary when you're connecting activities directly to curriculum.

In this case, obviously, we're looking for fourth grade math teachers.  :)

> I'm sorry if these questions have been hashed out already, I'm still new
> here.

No worries.  Everybody is new here.

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