Edward Mokurai Cherlin
From Sugar Labs User:Mokurai)
Founder, Earth Treasury, an NGO to link schools around the world for education and business. Mokurai volunteers at OLPC and Sugar Labs as a volunteer coordinator, localization administrator (Khmer and Kreyòl), and general knoker (an especially Yiddish know-all, the kind who did math homework in pen), based on
- his training as a mathematician, classroom teacher, amateur musician and linguist, philosopher, and Buddhist priest
- plus his lifetime of encyclopedic reading, many years in high-tech market research and technical writing, and work in Unicode and Free Software.
Vision
End Poverty at a Profit all around by educating children to collaborate and not be helpless.
Mission
The mission is whatever planning, funding, research, development, and deployment is needed to make that happen, with a focus on Management by Exception in order to keep on top of what is needed in changing circumstances and make sure that nothing gets missed that we must have.
Links
- Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks program
- Sugar Localization
- Open Education Resources
- Getting involved
- FLOSS Manuals for Free Software
- UNESCO discussion on Open Education Resources
