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===Chris Leonard (cjl) ===

===Chris Leonard (cjl) ===

Chris is a PhD biomedical researcher whose responsibilities include running an IT shop at a small pharmaceutical company with some very specialized requirements for blending IT and science.  Chris is interested in making a personal contribution to the educational effort through content development in the field of health. He has found a wealth of opportunities to do something useful and rewarding and has worked to leverage what he has learned to assist others in getting involved with the project. Much of this has taken the form of behind-the-scenes work as a wiki sysop on both the OLPC and Sugar Lab wikis, working to lower language barriers (e.g. creating and deploying the GoogleTrans-xx templates for "reverse localization"), and reaching out to folks from deployments via IRC, wiki or e-mail to help them get their stories on the wiki.  Most recently he has been working as a member of the "support gang". Chris is interested in the educational goals of (lower case) olpc and how best to achieve those goals and believes that the separation of software development (Sugar Labs) and hardware marketing/deployment (OLPC) is a "good thing" and that with careful nurturing, the whole will become greater than the sum of the parts alone.  

Chris is a PhD biomedical researcher whose responsibilities include running an IT shop at a small pharmaceutical company with some very specialized requirements for blending IT and science.  Chris is interested in making a personal contribution to the educational effort through content development in the field of health. He has found a wealth of opportunities to do something useful and rewarding and has worked to leverage what he has learned to assist others in getting involved with the project. Much of this has taken the form of behind-the-scenes work as a wiki sysop on both the OLPC and Sugar Lab wikis, working to lower language barriers (e.g. creating and deploying the GoogleTrans-xx templates for “reverse localization”), and reaching out to folks from deployments via IRC, wiki or e-mail to help them get their stories on the wiki.  Most recently he has been working as a member of the “support gang”. Chris is interested in the educational goals of (lower case) olpc and how best to achieve those goals and believes that the separation of software development (Sugar Labs) and hardware marketing/deployment (OLPC) is a “good thing” and that with careful nurturing, the whole will become greater than the sum of the parts alone.  

Chris would like to contribute his expertise in working with and advising non-profit organizations (various patient advocacy groups), government agencies (external reviewer/advisor National Institutes of Health, Roadmap Initiative) and software development operations (member of the Scientific Advisory Board of a scientific software firm, Artuslabs). Chris has a great deal of experience in acting as an "honest broker", analyzing the roles and needs of various stakeholders and designing and implementing strategic plans to achieve optimal results. Chris believes he has the necessary expertise to advise SUgar Labs on a wide scope of issues that it faces in this initial stage of it's growth.

Chris would like to contribute his expertise in working with and advising non-profit organizations (various patient advocacy groups), government agencies (external reviewer/advisor National Institutes of Health, Roadmap Initiative) and software development operations (member of the Scientific Advisory Board of a scientific software firm, Artuslabs). Chris has a great deal of experience in acting as an “honest broker”, analyzing the roles and needs of various stakeholders and designing and implementing strategic plans to achieve optimal results. Chris believes he has the necessary expertise to advise SUgar Labs on a wide scope of issues that it faces in this initial stage of it's growth.

===Christian Marc Schmidt (christianschmidt) ===

===Christian Marc Schmidt ([[User:Christianmarcschmidt|Christianmarcschmidt]])===

Christian is the lead user-interface/graphic designer from Pentagram working on Sugar. Christian has worked closely with Marco, Eben, and the original Sugar team for two years and continues to help us work though the numerous design challenges we face. For those of you who don't know it, Pentagram is one of the leading graphic design houses in the world. A sample of Christian's work can be found at http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/.

Christian is the lead user-interface/graphic designer from Pentagram working on Sugar. Christian has worked closely with Marco, Eben, and the original Sugar team for two years and continues to help us work though the numerous design challenges we face. For those of you who don't know it, Pentagram is one of the leading graphic design houses in the world. A sample of Christian's work can be found at http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/.

===Christoph Derndorfer (christophd) ===

===Christoph Derndorfer (christophd) ===

I am the co-founder and co-leader of Red Hat's community architecture team.  As such, I am responsible for driving Red Hat's strategic investments in open source community development.  I was the founding chairman of the Fedora Project board, and was primarily responsible for building Fedora's governance model.  Currently, I  serve as full-time primary liaison between Red Hat, the Fedora community, and the OLPC project, and is working actively to increase visible community participation within the OLPC project.

I am the co-founder and co-leader of Red Hat's community architecture team.  As such, I am responsible for driving Red Hat's strategic investments in open source community development.  I was the founding chairman of the Fedora Project board, and was primarily responsible for building Fedora's governance model.  Currently, I  serve as full-time primary liaison between Red Hat, the Fedora community, and the OLPC project, and is working actively to increase visible community participation within the OLPC project.

My priority for Sugar is to make it the desktop of choice for the "altruistic developer" -- the savvy tech geek who is willing to live the Sugar experience.  Sugar will improve rapidly when great free software developers are using it every day and feeling its growing pains directly.  To that end, Jeremy Katz, Robin Norwood and I (all of Red Hat) have already proposed a feature in Fedora 10 to <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar">make Sugar one of the login options in gdm.</a>

My priority for Sugar is to make it the desktop of choice for the “altruistic developer” – the savvy tech geek who is willing to live the Sugar experience.  Sugar will improve rapidly when great free software developers are using it every day and feeling its growing pains directly.  To that end, Jeremy Katz, Robin Norwood and I (all of Red Hat) have already proposed a feature in Fedora 10 to [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar make Sugar one of the login options in gdm.]

The absolute critical path for Sugar's success is to bring developers to the table.  In Fedora, this is where I excelled, and I believe I can create the same results for Sugar.

The absolute critical path for Sugar's success is to bring developers to the table.  In Fedora, this is where I excelled, and I believe I can create the same results for Sugar.

===Martin Dengler (mtd) ===

===Martin Dengler (mtd) ===

Martin is a professional programmer who got an XO to support the OLPC project and have a laptop for daily use. He has been an activity contributor, not just to Sugar, but to project components such as power management, kernel, wireless, and various Sugar activities. A search for mtd in trac gives a good indication of the breadth of his work.

Martin is a professional programmer who got an XO to support the OLPC project and have a laptop for daily use. He has been an active contributor, not just to Sugar, but to project components such as power management, kernel, wireless, and various Sugar activities. He almost declined the nomination for the SugarLabs Oversight Board because it seemed like there were so many other very well-qualified people in the running, but kept himself in in case there seemed a desire for someone who was:

# A programmer who's had a number of patches to Sugar and other OLPC software packages accepted.

 

# Realize the promise of Sugar as an educational platform (e.g., among other things, implementing the "view source" key in the Sugar UI and Taxonomy#Fructose Fructose activities

 

If not elected, he will help SugarLabs/the board members to realize those goals anyway.

===Pablo Flores (pflores) ===

===Pablo Flores (pflores) ===

* ILATIS (Social Impact of 1:1 projects in Latin America and the Caribbean) with Fundación DESEM, within an international research team supported by IDRC-CRDI.  

* ILATIS (Social Impact of 1:1 projects in Latin America and the Caribbean) with Fundación DESEM, within an international research team supported by IDRC-CRDI.  

He recently produced the book "Ceibal en la sociedad del siglo XXI". He is organizing a second Ceibal Jam!, engaging local communities to develop software for Plan Ceibal.

He recently produced the book ''Ceibal en la sociedad del siglo XXI''. He is organizing a second Ceibal Jam!, engaging local communities to develop software for Plan Ceibal.

===Rabi Karmacharya (rabikarma) ===

===Rabi Karmacharya (rabikarma) ===

===Walter Bender (walter)===

===Walter Bender (walter)===

Walter is a founding member of Sugar Labs. He had been a founding member of OLPC, where he served as president of software and content. He left OLPC in order to build an independent home for the Sugar project, bringing it out from a narrow place. His aspirations for Sugar Labs are to bring a great learning experience to children and infect the education community with the spirit and culture of FOSS.

Walter is a founding member of Sugar Labs. He was a founding member of OLPC, where he served as president of software and content. He left OLPC in order to build an independent home for the Sugar project, bringing it out from a narrow place. His aspirations for Sugar Labs are to bring a great learning experience to children and infect the education community with the spirit and culture of FOSS.