[math4] teacher recruitment letter

[Kathy Pusztavari]

I'm replying to an older message.  Yes, I agree it would very helpful if
sugar were ported to PC (SoaS).  In my area  (Oregon) there are mostly older
PCs running Win 2000 and XP (in classrooms and labs).  Essentially these are
hand me downs, donations, and freebies.

Not that I like PCs (yeah, I use them), but unfortunately that is what there
is right now in the classroom.

Does anyone have a good link on how to create a SoaS for PC and Mac?

- Kathy Pusztavari 


Shawn Willden shawn at willden.org
Tue Mar 17 12:28:29 EDT 2009

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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.