[math4] teacher recruitment letter

[Shawn Willden]

On Tuesday 17 March 2009 10:14:51 am Mel Chua wrote:
> In case it helps, here is the email I'm using to ask for edu folk. It is
> mostly copypastes of Caroline and Greg because they're more eloquent and
> I'm getting RSI. ;)

Good letter.

One thing that we should think about, to help motivate teacher participation, 
is how we can deliver the project applications on other platforms -- 
primarily Windows.

I understand the controversy with regard to porting Sugar to Windows, but I 
think we'll get a LOT more interest and support from teachers if what they're 
working on is something they can use in their own classrooms which, at least 
for the teachers where I live, means on computers running Windows.

Is there a reasonably easy way to ensure that math4 applications can run on 
both the real target environment and on Windows?  Is there some subset of the 
Sugar APIs we can use to make this easy?  Is being limited to that subset 
going to unacceptably constrain the math4 apps?

Perhaps we can explore other options, like Sugar on a Linux VM that's 
relatively easy to distribute and install?

I'm not sure what the options are, but I am sure that enabling the 
participating teachers to use the math4 apps with their own students will 
really help the project.

	Shawn.