[IAEP] Running local Sugar workshops

[Mel Chua]

> We should recruit someone to be a project lead for such a workshop.

+1 to all the questions!

I'd suggest that the workshop be run in parallel with FUDCON this 
January by the teachers, students, and parents from the schools the 
Sugar on a Stick pilots will be at. It would be a good 
learning/leadership/outreach opportunity for them, and directly relevant 
  to helping them prepare for their own pilots (best way to learn is to 
teach, and all that).

I've put together workshops/etc. in the past, and would be glad to 
mentor a core group of 1-3 people through the process for a 
parallel-to-FUDCON workshop, if there are people willing to step up 
who'd like to use this as an opportunity to learn workshop-runnin' - 
everything from getting space and advertising to running around during 
the event, making a schedule, etc. (Caroline, can you think of any from 
the pilot schools?) No obligation to take me up on this offer, btw; it's 
not hard to know more about running workshops than I do. But I thought 
I'd throw it out there in case someone was interested in doing this but 
didn't feel like they knew how.

> I actually have pretty strong feelings that gender equity is a relevant 
> issue for Sugar Labs.  The mission is learning to learn for EVERY child. 

Aye - I'm a fan of universal design (applicable to more than just design 
for the disabled, which is the sense it's usually used in). Broadly 
stated, universal design makes it easier for traditionally 
underrepresented groups to participate in a way that makes it easier for 
*everyone* to participate - the traditional example is that making a 
building entrance wheelchair-friendly instead of adding a separate door 
for just people in wheelchairs both (1) doesn't stigmatize the 
difference between folks in wheelchairs and not, and (2) probably makes 
the entrance easier for people not-in-wheelchairs to walk up as well.

--Mel