[IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Ambassadors

[Edward Cherlin]

I volunteer to help organize this, and to be the Ambassador to several
groups, including state governments, textbook writers, and education
researchers. The reason is that I am doing those things already. I am
in contact with Gov. Pat Quinn's office in Illinois; Obama education
advisor Linda Darling-Hamilton at Stanford; and the people and
organizations listed on the [[Creating textbooks]] page, among others.
Some of us expect to have some announcements over the summer.

Let's start thinking about the stakeholders we need to bring into the process.

o Teachers
o Ed. schools
o Politicians
o School Boards
o Students
o Parents
o Textbook authors and publishers
o Software developers
o Subject-matter experts
o Curriculum developers

as individuals and organizations, in each case.

Who else?

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM, David Farning<dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Below is a thread on Sugar ambassadors from last week.  I meant to
> send it to iaep with a few follow on cc's.  Looks like I left off
> iaep.
>
> david
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
> Date: Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:59 PM
> Subject: Sugar Ambassadors
> To: Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>, Caroline Meeks
> <caroline at solutiongrove.com>, Walter Bender <walter at sugarlabs.org>
>
>
> We have hinted around the edges several times about the importance of
> an ambassadors program for Sugar Labs.
>
> The basic idea behind the ambassadors programs is to help people such
> as Caryl feel like they have what they need to effectively communicate
> to various groups about Sugar and Sugar Labs.
>
> At some levels this is a marketing issue but at other levels, this is
> a community building issue.
>
> I am willing to get the program started.  I would like to hand it off
> to someone with actual social skills as soon as possible.  At the
> OLPCFrance day of SugarCamp, I was much more comfortable sitting
> upstairs with Scott Meeks and Gary Martin than talking and mingling.
>
> We can start by collecting a list of interesting events and a set of
> inspiring resources.
>
> From there we can organically let the natural 'ambassadors' learn what
> works for their local events and share those best practices with each
> other.
>
> Should we roll this into the marketing team for now and split off when
> we get to big for the marketers to handle us?  Yep, that is a
> challenge:)
>
> david
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