[Marketing] organizing an event

[David Farning]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm confused, is the idea that "Ambassadors" try to recruit
> developers, and Sugar Labs contributors who talk to teachers be called
> something else?
>
> I vastly prefer "Facilitators", but that's because I don't share the
> view that it's a higher priority for us to reach out to FOSS
> developers than to reach out to teachers, and I daresay teachers need
> much more explaining of what Sugar is designed to do than developers
> will.
>
> I think we agree that Sugar needs teacher buy-in for its success. We
> need teachers challenging our concepts, offering their experience and
> intuition, and identifying barriers (technical and otherwise) to Sugar
> adoption.
>
> Of course we should be present at FOSS conventions. Of course we
> should communicate to developers our passion and ideals about
> bettering educational opportunity for millions of children.
>
> But, we're already good at that. What we're not good at yet is
> confronting our ideas with classroom realities. There is a vast amount
> of teacher savoir-faire out in the world about making learning happen
> with Sugar, but we can't access any of it since there is no feedback
> loop. I believe we should be better empowering teachers within Sugar
> itself, but I have no data yet to support that position without
> feedback.
>
> Actually, what I'd like is for Sugar Facilitators not just to go to
> conventions (although we certainly should). What I'd like is to start
> a tradition of visiting schools. You know, like the sales forces of
> publishers, service providers, systems integrators, computer
> manufacturers, and proprietary software firms do. We have an
> unbeatable sales pitch compared to the others: we have nothing to sell
> except ideas; we do this to improve education; we are looking for
> information, and here is Sugar on a Stick for you to try out.
>
> In my view, fact-finding trips to schools could just be the best way
> to quickly find technically adept teachers willing to share with us.
> And, if we are organized about our visit reporting, we could become
> much better at seeing what is going on in schools in a consolidated
> way; shifts from computer labs to 1:1 computing for example, or
> attitudes about the Internet, or things that work really well or not
> at all.

Please take a step back and look at the _goals_ of the Fedora
Ambassadors program as it applies to the overall goals of the Fedora
project.  Then think of how a similar project might be adapted to to
the overall goals of Sugar Labs.

david

> thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Caroline
> Meeks<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>> hmm, how about a link to the facilitation wiki that Gunner showed us.:
>> http://facilitation.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Agenda:Index
>>
>> Also, is it to late to not use the word Ambassadors. Its a power, fear and
>> hierarchical filled metaphor that I think will feed into teachers existing
>> feelings of alienation in regards to technology.
>>
>> I know we didn't come up with anything better.
>>
>> So my suggestion is "Sugar Facilitators"  teachers and schools use the word
>> facilitation frequently, I think it will be more comfortable for them..
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:03 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> We now have a draft wiki page on how to organize an event at
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Organizing_an_Event .
>>>
>>> I'll try to gather up the materials we have used in previous events so
>>> we can find them again next time.  Please fell free to add and correct
>>> as necessary.
>>>
>>> david
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