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Talk:Oversight Board 2008 Candidates (view source)
Revision as of 11:04, 1 September 2009
, 11:04, 1 September 2009moved Talk:Sugar Labs/Oversight Board Candidates August 2008 to Talk:Oversight Board 2008 Candidates
Bernie is a volunteer working for the Sugar Labs team. Until February 2008, he was a full time volunteer developer at OLPC. His job was hacking X, the base Fedora OS, the Linux kernel, some i18n and input work. Later on, until April 2008, he was CTO of OLPC Europe and traveled around to present the OLPC project to government officials and dignitaries. Bernie has been instrumental in helping set up the Sugar Labs back-end infrastructure and spent the summer in Nepal, working with teachers and the FOSS community.
Bernie is a volunteer working for the Sugar Labs team. Until February 2008, he was a full time volunteer developer at OLPC. His job was hacking X, the base Fedora OS, the Linux kernel, some i18n and input work. Later on, until April 2008, he was CTO of OLPC Europe and traveled around to present the OLPC project to government officials and dignitaries. Bernie has been instrumental in helping set up the Sugar Labs back-end infrastructure and spent the summer in Nepal, working with teachers and the FOSS community.
Oversight Board Platform: To position itself as THE educational environment of the future, Sugar needs to grow a larger user and developer base. This is only possible by
transforming Sugar into a truly community-driven project with its own independent identity.
Goals for Sugar Labs:
# Further enhance our public-facing web presence and development infrastructure;
# Work with multiple hardware and OS vendors to make Sugar available to the widest-possible user base;
# Foster the creation of companies and groups offering professional Sugar consulting and outsourcing;
# Continue to enroll volunteer community members in key roles of our infrastructure and public relations;
# Raise funding to sponsor developer meetings and our presence at major international events.
Anti-goals for Sugar Labs:
# Hire a large team of software developers – this would end up discouraging outside contributors;
# Brew a custom OS platform – we work with distributors, we don't compete against them;
# Let Sugar Labs become unfairly biased towards specific partners -- that would undermine our relationships with other partners;
# Trade project autonomy for funding or support – we're glad to offer our services, not our souls.
Personal agenda:
to explore the possibility to build a small team of Sugar hackers that would offer consulting services such as porting to specific hardware platforms or development of features. Internet would be our office. Over the next few years, computers will become central in world education. This will in turn stimulate the creation of a florid industry offering hardware, software, and contents for the specific needs of schools. Sugar has a great competitive advantage over any proprietary offering on the horizon and it has a huge momentum. This is why Sugar is a rewarding business opportunity to invest in.
===Chris Ball (cjb)===
===Chris Ball (cjb)===
Chris is a software engineer at OLPC. He is primarily responsible for the power-management work, but has also worked on the tinderbox and most anything else that comes along. Chris is the author of the Pippy Activity. Chris has been a steadfast supporter of FOSS as a foundational principle for Sugar and OLPC.
Chris is a software engineer at OLPC. He is primarily responsible for OLPC's power-management work, but has also worked on the automated testing tinderbox and most anything else that comes along. Chris is the author of the Pippy activity, as well as Words and WikiBrowse. Chris has been a steadfast supporter of FOSS as a foundational principle for Sugar and OLPC.
===Chris Leonard (cjl) ===
===Chris Leonard (cjl) ===
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 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.
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 ([[User:Christianmarcschmidt|Christianmarcschmidt]])===
Christian is the lead user-interface/graphic designer from Pentagram working on Sugar. Christian has worked closely with Marco, Eben, and the original Sugar team for two years and continues to help us work though the numerous design challenges we face. For those of you who don't know it, Pentagram is one of the leading graphic design houses in the world. A sample of Christian's work can be found at http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/.
Christian is the lead user-interface/graphic designer from Pentagram working on Sugar. Christian has worked closely with Marco, Eben, and the original Sugar team for two years and continues to help us work though the numerous design challenges we face. For those of you who don't know it, Pentagram is one of the leading graphic design houses in the world. A sample of Christian's work can be found at http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/.
"I am interested in working with all of you to extend the Sugar user-interface, on OLPC as well as on other platforms and devices, in keeping with the established visual and interaction design principles, while also thinking about new opportunities. This includes maintaining our focus on a 'universal' design language through the use of body metaphors, full-screen zoom-levels and color signifying identity and ownership."
===Christoph Derndorfer (christophd) ===
===Christoph Derndorfer (christophd) ===
===Greg Dekoenigsberg (gregdek) ===
===Greg Dekoenigsberg (gregdek) ===
I am the co-founder and co-leader of Red Hat's community architecture team. As such, I am responsible for driving Red Hat's strategic investments in open source community development. I was the founding chairman of the Fedora Project board, and was primarily responsible for building Fedora's governance model. Currently, I serve as full-time primary liaison between Red Hat, the Fedora community, and the OLPC project, and is working actively to increase visible community participation within the OLPC project.
My priority for Sugar is to make it the desktop of choice for the “altruistic developer” – the savvy tech geek who is willing to live the Sugar experience. Sugar will improve rapidly when great free software developers are using it every day and feeling its growing pains directly. To that end, Jeremy Katz, Robin Norwood and I (all of Red Hat) have already proposed a feature in Fedora 10 to [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar make Sugar one of the login options in gdm.]
The absolute critical path for Sugar's success is to bring developers to the table. In Fedora, this is where I excelled, and I believe I can create the same results for Sugar.
===Henry Hardy (hhardy) ===
===Henry Hardy (hhardy) ===
===Iain Davidson (ixo) ===
===Iain Davidson (ixo) ===
Iain is a support volunteer from Bellingham, WA, USA. He is been one of the cornerstones of the OLPC support team, very active in the wiki, and has played a major role in testing and support for a number of Sugar activities, including: elements, xo-get, XoIRC, Speak, DrGeo, Clock, Doom, Colors! He has worked in support of Firefox, Opera, rsync , mc, thunar, xeyes, xawtv on the XO and has a number of activities in various stages of development. Iain also runs an XO repair center.
Iain is a support volunteer from Bellingham, WA, USA. He has been one of the cornerstones of the OLPC support team, very active in the wiki, and has played a major role in testing and support for a number of Sugar activities, including: elements, xo-get, XoIRC, Speak, DrGeo, Clock, Doom, Colors! He has worked in support of Firefox, Opera, rsync , mc, thunar, xeyes, xawtv on the XO and has a number of activities in various stages of development. Iain also runs an XO repair center.
===Marco Pesenti Gritti (marcopg) ===
===Marco Pesenti Gritti (marcopg) ===
===Martin Dengler (mtd) ===
===Martin Dengler (mtd) ===
Martin is a professional programmer who got an XO to support the OLPC project and have a laptop for daily use. He has been an activity contributor, not just to Sugar, but to project components such as power management, kernel, wireless, and various Sugar activities. A search for mtd in trac gives a good indication of the breadth of his work.
Martin is a professional programmer who got an XO to support the OLPC project and have a laptop for daily use. He has been an active contributor, not just to Sugar, but to project components such as power management, kernel, wireless, and various Sugar activities. He almost declined the nomination for the SugarLabs Oversight Board because it seemed like there were so many other very well-qualified people in the running, but kept himself in in case there seemed a desire for someone who was:
# A G1G1 donor
# A programmer who's had a number of patches to Sugar and other OLPC software packages accepted.
# Successful at making timely, practical decisions about software
# Not affiliated with OLPC or other Boston-area organisations
If elected, he will:
# Work amicably with other board members to
# Realize the promise of Sugar as an educational platform (e.g., among other things, implementing the "view source" key in the Sugar UI and Taxonomy#Fructose Fructose activities
# in a pragmatic but theoretically-motivated manner
If not elected, he will help SugarLabs/the board members to realize those goals anyway.
===Pablo Flores (pflores) ===
===Pablo Flores (pflores) ===
* ILATIS (Social Impact of 1:1 projects in Latin America and the Caribbean) with Fundación DESEM, within an international research team supported by IDRC-CRDI.
* ILATIS (Social Impact of 1:1 projects in Latin America and the Caribbean) with Fundación DESEM, within an international research team supported by IDRC-CRDI.
He recently produced the book "Ceibal en la sociedad del siglo XXI". He is organizing a second Ceibal Jam!, engaging local communities to develop software for Plan Ceibal.
He recently produced the book ''Ceibal en la sociedad del siglo XXI''. He is organizing a second Ceibal Jam!, engaging local communities to develop software for Plan Ceibal.
===Rabi Karmacharya (rabikarma) ===
===Rabi Karmacharya (rabikarma) ===
===Walter Bender (walter)===
===Walter Bender (walter)===
Walter is a founding member of Sugar Labs. He had been a founding member of OLPC, where he served as president of software and content. He left OLPC in order to build an independent home for the Sugar project, bringing it out from a narrow place. His aspirations for Sugar Labs are to bring a great learning experience to children and infect the education community with the spirit and culture of FOSS.
Walter is a founding member of Sugar Labs. He was a founding member of OLPC, where he served as president of software and content. He left OLPC in order to build an independent home for the Sugar project, bringing it out from a narrow place. His aspirations for Sugar Labs are to bring a great learning experience to children and infect the education community with the spirit and culture of FOSS.