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===Chris Leonard (cjl) ===

===Chris Leonard (cjl) ===

Chris got involved with OLPC initially as a G1G1 donor, interested in the technical features of the XO laptop and also interested in making a personal contribution to the educational effort through content development in the field of health. He found a wealth of opportunities to do something useful and rewarding and he has worked to leverage what he has learned to assist others in becoming 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, and most recently by working as a member of the "support gang".  

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.

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

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