CarolineM

Worked with the technical staff at my company Solution Grove on the XS and Sugar on a Stick backup.

Worked with the technical staff at my company Solution Grove on the XS and Sugar on a Stick backup.

My interests include

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

Sugar on a Stick a one stick per child access to computing and Sugar

* GPA Pilot

* GPA Pilot

-Work on the Marketing Team

* Work on the Marketing Team

-Writing Grants

* Writing Grants

-General promotion

* General promotion

-Testing

* Testing

-SG Engineers work on Stick backup and registration with the XS

* SG Engineers work on Stick backup and registration with the XS

-hired as GPA interns BU students trying to start a pilot in India

* hired as GPA interns BU students trying to start a pilot in India

Collaboration

Collaboration

-Testing local 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.   

* 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.

* Provide free XS to a school in NY State and to GPA.

-SG engineers working on Jabber bugs

* SG engineers working on Jabber bugs

Moodle

Moodle

-SG provides schools.sugarlabs.org

* SG provides schools.sugarlabs.org

-Try to advocate for the usefulness of Moodle and point out areas where it fits into our full vision.

* 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.

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

Lower the floor for educators to use sugar and participate in the community

-Talk at teacher conferences in ME and VT and visit schools

* Talk at teacher conferences in ME and VT and visit schools

-Try to make it easier to report bugs by evaluating launchpad and getsatisfaction

* 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.

* 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

* 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

* working on a teacher professional development curriculum in my class this semester

-support adding a WYSIWYG editor to the wiki

* 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 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

* 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

* advocate for getting hardware support into SoaS

Other interests include

Other interests include

 

* Using Sugar to create school-family-afterschool partnerships

-Using Sugar to create school-family-afterschool partnerships

* Sugar in the Philippines (some of the Solution Grove engineers are located in the Philippines)

-Sugar in the Philippines (some of the Solution Grove engineers are located in the Philippines)

===SUGAR EVERYWHERE!===

===SUGAR EVERYWHERE!===