Developer interested in edtech here. This looks fantastic! I'm in the Bay Area, and planning to attend the SLC Camp this weekend [1] [2]. A coupla questions:

Developer interested in edtech here. This looks fantastic! I'm in the Bay Area, and planning to attend the SLC Camp this weekend [1] [2]. A coupla questions: * As someone who's been a student and taught informally before, I have some understanding of what's involved in building a small educational app focused on learning. But having never been a professional teacher, I find another area that some of this technology tackles to be unfamiliar territory: planning lessons and fostering personalized learning [3] [4]. It seems like this area is a big promise of interchange efforts like SLC and companies like Clever, but I find the problem space a little difficult to grasp as an outsider. I think part of it is that the SLC's work necessarily involves large up-front planning that covers many domains in detail ("here's a great big interchange spec - _now_ go write real code."), which is at odds with my experience with consumer internet startups of keeping a tight focus and staying concrete. I'm hoping the SLC Camp this weekend helps this by bringing developers and teachers together, and giving developers like me more context and a more concrete understanding of problems. I'm curious, is there any plan for such a matchmaking or collaboration event in NYC that interested devs should look out for? * How does Clever relate to SLC? It seems similar to the aim of SLC/SLI (smooth, unified data interchange), but I see that Clever is an SLC partner [5]. How does Clever relate to SLC/SLI? I admit that the SLC/SLI documentation feels a little obtuse to an outsider - I found myself asking "...what exactly does this do?" several times while reading up on it. I much more readily grasp the Clever docs. * Unrelated to the article: Are folks from Clever going to SLC Camp this weekend? 1 - Shared Learning Collaborative http://slcedu.org http://slcedu.org 2 - SLC Camp Bay Area http://slccampbayarea-community.eventbrite.com http://slccampbayarea-community.eventbrite.com 3 - SLC context vignette: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERWEjWNskuE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERWEjWNskuE 4 - SLC context vignette: http://slcedu.org/blog/introducing-mr-thompson http://slcedu.org/blog/introducing-mr-thompson 5 - http://slcedu.org/marketplace/slc-partners http://slcedu.org/marketplace/slc-partners