On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Well, then, whose scope is it in? Earth Treasury takes a much more inclusive view of the overall mission, as in "whatever it takes" rather than "the bits I would prefer to work on". Thus, textbooks, curricula, electricity, Internet connectivity, microfinance, linking schools, teaching children business... We are accepting volunteers, resources, and ideas. Anyone care to help us with a Web site? > --- > > 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.' Inclusion is the issue, not enumeration. >> 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.' What does that mean in practice? I'm willing to work on these issues, and have proposed several such projects in the past. But now I am told again that my ideas are "out of scope". >>> thanks >>> dfarning -- 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
