CarolineM
Joined 28 September 2008
Created page with 'Caroline Meeks www.sugaronastick.com www.solutiongrove.com Lead for Gardener Pilot Academy (GPA) Pilot and Sugar on a Stick project.' |
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Caroline Meeks | Caroline Meeks | ||
www.sugaronastick.com | * www.sugaronastick.com | ||
www.solutiongrove.com | * www.solutiongrove.com | ||
Lead for Gardener Pilot Academy (GPA) Pilot and Sugar on a Stick project. | Lead for Gardener Pilot Academy (GPA) Pilot and Sugar on a Stick project. | ||
Contributions include: | |||
Obtained a grant from the Gould Family Foundation for the GPA project | |||
Active with the Sugar on a Stick Team | |||
Active contributor to the Marketing Team | |||
I attend teacher gatherings and represent Sugar including giving it good visibility at the Harvard Graduate School for Education where I am a current Master's student | |||
Coordinate the recruiting of volunteers with Volunteer Match for both local and Sugar Labs wide volunteers. | |||
Worked with the technical staff at my company Solution Grove on the XS and Sugar on a Stick backup. | |||
For the Oversight board election I want to give people an idea of my interests and what actions I've taken to try to move them forward. | |||
Sugar on a Stick a one stick per child access to computing and Sugar | |||
* GPA Pilot | |||
* Work on the Marketing Team | |||
* Writing Grants | |||
* General promotion | |||
* Testing | |||
* SG Engineers work on Stick backup and registration with the XS | |||
* hired as GPA interns BU students trying to start a pilot in India | |||
Collaboration | |||
* Testing local collaboration | |||
* Providing a Jabber Server for the sugar community as well as for anyone who downloads SoaS. Providing Jabber to anyone who downloads SoaS model is not sustainable and I'm working on creating a business model to support it. | |||
* Provide free XS to a school in NY State and to GPA. | |||
* SG engineers working on Jabber bugs | |||
Moodle | |||
* SG provides schools.sugarlabs.org | |||
* Try to advocate for the usefulness of Moodle and point out areas where it fits into our full vision. | |||
Create partnerships with organizations that share our goals. I feel curwiki, OLE and the foundation that created the teachermate content are all good potential partners. | |||
Lower the floor for educators to use sugar and participate in the community | |||
* Talk at teacher conferences in ME and VT and visit schools | |||
* Try to make it easier to report bugs by evaluating launchpad and getsatisfaction | |||
* Advocate for the Teachermate content which I think would be easy for teachers to use. | |||
* hired an intern to write up lesson plans in formats familiar to teachers | |||
* working on a teacher professional development curriculum in my class this semester | |||
* support adding a WYSIWYG editor to the wiki | |||
* working to create a site that allows individuals to purchase backup and collaboration | |||
* working to create a company that will allow school districts to have access to support contracts etc. if they desire | |||
* advocate for getting hardware support into SoaS | |||
Other interests include | |||
* Using Sugar to create school-family-afterschool partnerships | |||
* Sugar in the Philippines (some of the Solution Grove engineers are located in the Philippines) | |||
===SUGAR EVERYWHERE!=== | |||
I think volunteers sometimes wonder if they are appreciated. On of the definitions of appreciate is 'verb intransitive' to increase in value as in an investment appreciates. I am very grateful for the huge appreciation of my work by the Sugar Community. Thank you. | |||