[IAEP] Teacher in Uruguay enchanted to see his ideas integrated into global Sugar update [pr mockup]

[Christoph Derndorfer]

This is the kind of press release I would love for Sugar Labs to be able 
to send out 6 to 12 months down the road... ;-)

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Christoph

Christoph Derndorfer schrieb:
> *** DISCLAIMER (ESPECIALLY FOR ALL YOU COPY-PASTE JOURNALISTS OUT 
> THERE): THIS IS NOT AN ACTUAL PRESS RELEASE BUT A MOCKUP OF WHAT SUCH A 
> PRESS RELEASE BY SUGAR LABS COULD LOOK LIKE ***
> 
> Montevideo, Uruguay / Cambridge, USA - September 16 - Recent reports 
> declaring that the Sugar educational platform was dead seem unfounded 
> when talking to teachers like Senor Albarez in the small Colegio de 
> Rosario do Sul in Uruguay. Albarez, who had been using Sugar in his 
> class with 39 children for the past 9 months, described how enchanted he 
> was when he found out that feedback he had given to a visiting Sugar 
> Labs intern was integrated into the most recent global Sugar update.
> 
> "We often use the ebook mode on the XO to practice reading or play one 
> of the popular physics games that we recently received. My colleague and 
> I noticed that children often had a hard time remembering which of the 
> buttons next to the screen did what since that varied from game to 
> game." As a stop-gap solution Albarez prepared Post-Its explaining what 
> the buttons in each game did and handed them out to pupils who had 
> trouble remembering them.
> 
> As part of their global feedback program Sugar Labs, the non-profit 
> organization which serves as a support base and gathering place for the 
> project, regularly sends out interns to spend 6 to 8 weeks schools using 
> the Sugar platform. One of these interns visited Senor Albarez in May 
> and quickly noticed the many Post-Its stuck on children's laptops. "Once 
> I understood what the issue was I quickly relayed that information back 
> to my colleagues in Europe who immediately started working on a 
> solution," commented John Doe, the visiting intern. Two weeks later a 
> solution, consisting of briefly showing the button configuration when 
> starting a game, was sent to him and he quickly tested it with the 
> pupils in Albarez's class. After some finetuning and when Albarez and 
> his students were happy with the solution it was integrated into a 
> global Sugar update.
> 
> "It's great to know that teachers all around Uruguay and even other 
> countries will be able to use this now," Albarez commented. "This is a 
> text-book example of how closely the Sugar Labs community works with the 
> people who use our Sugar platform on a daily basis," said The Joker, a 
> member of Sugar Labs' Oversight Board. "By leveraging resources on the 
> ground to understand how people use Sugar and then directly connecting 
> them to the very people working on the software we can accurately 
> improve our platform to fit the requirements of the many teachers and 
> children around the world who use Sugar." The Joker closed by saying "I 
> don't think any other company or organization in the world can offer 
> this kind of service."
> 
> PRESS CONTACT
> 
> Christoph Derndorfer
> oh-so-sweet propaganda for Sugar Labs
> christoph at olpcnews.com
> 
> 
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> THERE): THIS IS NOT AN ACTUAL PRESS RELEASE BUT A MOCKUP OF WHAT SUCH A 
> PRESS RELEASE BY SUGAR LABS COULD LOOK LIKE ***
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Christoph Derndorfer
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e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com