[Marketing] organizing an event

[Caroline Meeks]

Goals look good:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors#Fedora_Ambassadors_Goals

Can we call it Sugar Facilitators?

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:21 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> 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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>



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