On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Arjun Sarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO the mission statement should also include a mention of how > educators are an integral part of defining and structuring the > ecosystem.
I hope that the mission and the ecology include bringing teachers, students, and parents together on creating the new curriculum and a new kind of Free textbook incorporating Sugar software capabilities. I am concerned that we are putting so much effort into software and essentially nothing into new textbooks. (FLOSS Manuals and some developers are doing a great job on documentation, but that is a separate issue.) > regards > Arjun > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:15 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As we go forward with Sugar Labs, it is important that we clearly define >> our mission and goals. Going through the mailing list archives I have >> come up with the following Mission Statement: >> >> Sugar Labs is an open source community, whose projects are focused on >> building an educational platform based on the principles of >> collaboration, reflection, discovery. Sugar Labs is a not-for-profit, >> member supported corporation that helps cultivate both an open source >> community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services. >> >> dfarning >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > > -- > Arjun Sarwal > http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs > http://youtube.com/watch?v=SwcSEcfR464 > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Silent Thunder [ 默雷 / शब्दगर्ज ] is my name, And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, And Truth my destination. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
