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My interests include
My interests include


Teacher training and encouraging teacher contributions to the Sugar community
Sugar on a Stick a one stick per child access to computing and Sugar
Creating teacher friendly curriculum, this includes projects such as getting the TeacherMate
-GPA Pilot
Using Sugar to create school-family-afterschool partnerships
-Work on the Marketing Team
Increasing access to and time for computing for learning, that is not just having access during school hours
-Writing Grants
Integration of Moodle and Sugar
-General promotion
Sugar in the Philippines (some of the Solution Grove engineers are located in the Philippines)
-Testing
SUGAR EVERYWHERE!
-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!===