[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central

[Anish Mangal]

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On 12/06/2011 11:51 PM, Pablo Flores wrote:
> Thanks for the announcement. As David says, I will have the big 
> challenge of directing AC, a company which has at the core of its 
> business providing services for deployments using the Sugar
> learning platform.
> 
> I've been involved in the olpc/sugar ecosystem since 2007 (for more
> info about me, please see my profile 
> <http://plus.google.com/u/0/104046304533768660303/about>and follow
> me in google+). Much of my work was as a volunteer, having a strong
> focus on promoting the community work. One year ago I was hired by
> AC to work in the company's community outreach area, where I could
> work in promoting events like eduJAM, Sugar Day Junín, Mexico City
> Sugar workshop and Sugar Camp Lima. Sugar is based on the great
> work that the whole community systematically does for it, to which
> I hope AC can contribute even more in this new stage.
> 
> AC provides deployments with technical solutions tailored to their 
> particular needs, promoting at the same time the community growth
> by supporting local labs, hiring outstanding programmers,
> upstreaming code and sharing knowledge. In my vision, these
> professional services are required to keep the ecosystem healthy
> and it's our biggest challenge doing this sustainably.
> 
> I won?t be much online in the last weeks of December as I'll take
> some days off before assuming the new position, but I?m very open
> to receiving by email or in #sugar IRC your doubts, suggestions,
> criticisms or ideas, as I want to keep the contact fluid.
> 
> Stay in touch!
> 
> Regards, Pablo Flores activitycentral.com
> <http://activitycentral.com/>
> 

Congrats Pablo!! :-)

> 
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, David Farning 
> <dfarning at activitycentral.com
> <mailto:dfarning at activitycentral.com>> wrote:
> 
> I am proud to announce that we are promoting Pablo Flores as the
> new CEO of Activity Central.
> 
> Pablo has a strong background in all things OLPC and Sugar from
> his time at Plan Ceibal, leadership in Ceibal Jam, and most
> recently as community architect for Activity Central.
> 
> Pablo and the rest of the Activity Central team will continue the
> core AC mission of providing service and support for deployments.
> 
> I will continue my work in the Sugar/OLPC ecosystem by focusing on
> the junction point between deployment technical teams and education
> teams. My research so far has lead me to the notion of learning
> objects. While poorly defined in the education literature, the
> vocabulary around learning objects seems to lends itself to the
> intersection of technical personal and education personal in early
> childhood education.
> 
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Anish Mangal
Dextrose Project Manager
Activity Central
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