The way I had been using platform is somewhere in between: not OS-specific, but not all aspects of the ecosystem, which would even include low-power, alternative energy, etc. These are important, but outside of the scope of Sugar Labs, IMHO.
--- The Sugar learning platform reinvents how computers can be used for education: it promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and their teachers have the opportunity to use computation on their own terms; they are free to reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar is a community project; it is available under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL) to anyone who wants to extend it. Sugar Labs is a non-profit foundation whose mission is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the Sugar learning platform; it serves as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and who have been creating Sugar-compatible applications. --- The details can be found on http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs. -walter On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Farning wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 22:25 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: >> >>> 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 reluctant to start enumerating specific groups in the community. I >> welcome anyone who shares the goals of 'building an educational platform >> based on the principles of collaboration, reflection, discovery.' >> >> > > How would you define "platform". Is it specific as in OS, or generic as > in "ecosystem"? > > Sameer > > -- > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Associate Professor of Information Systems > San Francisco State University > San Francisco CA 94132 USA > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > > >>> 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.) >>> >> >> Sugar Labs is a community project;) If anyone is not happy with the >> community direction 'patches are welcome.' >> >> thanks >> dfarning >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
