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===Discussion of our mission===
===Discussion of our mission===
We had a general consensus around our [[EducationTeam#Mission|mission]] and spent most of our time discussion means and goals.
We had a general consensus around our [[EducationTeam#Mission|mission]] and spent most of our time discussion [[EducationTeam#Means|means]] and [[EducationTeam#Goals|goals]].
* We made some headway in defining our target audiences, but not much progress on defining goals for those audiences.
* We discussed broadening our channels of communication to include social networking sites, including Facebook, linkedin, Classroom2.0, ning, etc. and tools other than IRC, such as VOIP (SKYPE). We need volunteers to oversee those efforts. (If we build it and they come, we need to make sure that there is a community connection.)
* A concrete suggestion was made to set up tagged email threads for each Sugar Activity, perhaps by language as well, but fed back into IAEP (or perhaps Sur), e.g., Subject: [LABYRINTH]...Subject: [BROWSE]... Subject: [TORTUGA ART]... We are looking for someone familiar with Mailman to help set this up efficiently.
* We discussed some needs, such as preparing introductory Sugar materials for workshops as short as 2-4 hours or as long as a week.
* http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/fourthgrademath/ was raised as an example of interaction between developers and teachers.
* We discussed the need for teacher-oriented tools for creating/distributing/using PDFs as a first-class Sugar object.(Similar discussions are underway re web objects in general, FLASH/GNASH, and Javascript).
* We agreed that for next time, everyone would bring 1-2 "means" for to the discussion that we can discuss in order: what, why, how, by whom
===Survey design===
===Survey design===