[IAEP] Volunteer-driven development of educational software

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Caroline Meeks wrote:

> World wide there are many programmers paid to create and maintain 
> activities with strong pedagogical elements intended solely for kids.  
> Many of these activities are distributed without cost and some are open 
> source.  Some that I'm familiar with are NSDL, PBS Teachers Domain, 
> Concord Consortium.
> 
> I think one of the tasks of the Marketing Team, which I see you head, is 
> to convince organizations that are already creating activities that they 
> want to use Sugar as a Learning Platform to deliver their activities.  
> If we succeed in that then I think that many of these programmers will 
> also contribute to maintaining and extending Sugar itself, because it 
> will be code that they are using regularly for their jobs.  It will 
> become their itch.

Brilliant, Caroline.  I think you're exactly right.  One of our main 
missions should be outreach to these developers.  I hope you can help 
here, since you're clearly more familiar with the space than I am.  :)

--g