User:Robson

My name is Robson Mendonça, I'm a Computer Science Student at Unisinos - Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil, and work since 2001 at LEC (Cognitive Studies Lab) under Professor Léa Fagundes orientation.

My childhood dreams laid in video-games, remote controlled cars and tree's house. Because of these things and my interest in how things works, that I became a programmer, mainly about children software development.

In my time in LEC, it was possible learn a lot of technologies and much about Free Software development, witch I adopted as a life philosophy. Those happen because I could identify many dreams that I had when was a kid into the possibilities presented by community, first as fun possibility and now as a reward of life. I have participated of the Free Software Forum - FISL since 2004, and the last year I had the opportunity to meet with the Jim Gettys, John Palmiery and Tomeo, witch increased my interest in the Sugar development.

However, as a LEC member, I was have to learn many different things as educational computing, how to teach and instigate a teacher or student to search new ways of the computer using. Thus, I was became a tutor in several remote courses at LEC, and I can see how the people understand the use of the computer into the classroom. All those bring me a good base for my understand of the educational software development, therefore I believe that I can contribute a lot.