Something like:
Sugar Lab's provides tools.
or
Sugar Labs provides Sugar.
Tony
On 04/30/2017 12:58 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi Tony,
A mission statement needs to be very short and succinct. It should be
short enough for you to write it on the back of a business card. The
average "Joe" (or Mary, for that matter) doesn't have a clue (or
care) who Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon, or Alan Kay
are. It isn't the job of the mission statement to tell them. That is
your job, should you decide it is needed.
As for listing all the iterations and forms of Sugar and the tools
that support it, simply talking about a "collection of tools" does the
job very nicely. If folks want to know more they can ask or look it up
or you can tell them. But the mission statement doesn't have to list
every flower in our beautiful garden!
Caryl😊
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*From:* Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net>
*Sent:* Friday, April 28, 2017 6:31:24 PM
*To:* Caryl Bigenho; iaep; walter.ben...@gmail.com; Samson Goddy;
Lionel Laske; Adam Holt; igna...@sugarlabs.org; Laura Vargas; sameer verma
*Subject:* Re: Back on Task... The 2017 Sugar Labs Mission Statement
Compare:
"Sugar Labs is a volunteer-run project whose mission is to reach
global learners and educators with a collection of tools that enable
them to explore, discover, create, and reflect in their local
language. Sugar Labs distributes these tools freely and encourages its
users to appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility for
their learning." (proposed motion)
/
/
"Sugar is a learning platform based on the constructionist educational
principles of Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon, and Alan
Kay. Sugar Labs is responsible to develop, distribute, and support
Sugar with the help of a global volunteer community of contributors.
Sugar Labs provides Sugar in two forms: Sugar for personal computers
and XOs and Sugarizer (Sugar Mobile) for mobile devices and the Web."
Motion approved January 2017.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Sugar Labs is not comfortable
with its 'learning platform' but prefers to offer a set of tools from
which our users can pick and choose.
Sugar as a learning platform supports collaboration, provides a
Journal, uses icons to minimize dependence on language skills and
provides a common human interface to make easier discovery of new
capabilities.
XSCE has been working with Kids on Computers. KOC did not even
consider Sugar but chose UberMix. If you don't need a platform but are
happy with a collection of tools, UberMix meets the need.
(http://www.ubermix.org/about.html and
https://opensource.com/life/13/2/kramden-institute-ubermix-digital-divide).
Tony
On 04/29/2017 12:52 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi...
A few things...
First... Walter made this motion and it was seconded by several board
members. Therefore it should be voted on, up or down, before
considering Laura's substitute motion. I see nothing wrong with this
mission statement. It is clear and concise and describes exactly what
Sugar Labs is all about.
Walter's motion:
/Revise the Sugar Labs mission statement to "Sugar Labs is a
volunteer-run project whose mission// is to reach global learners and
educators with a collection of tools that enable them to explore,
discover, create, and reflect in their local language. Sugar Labs
distributes these tools freely and encourages its users to
appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility for their
learning."/
/
/
Second... when you reply to an email, unless it is private SLOB
business, please be sure you have included iaep in the addresses.
Otherwise your messages look blank to everyone who isn't a SLOB
member. It is called "sunshine."
Third... After the mission statement is approved, or a
substitute (but I hope it is this one), it will be time to consider
long term goals for Sugar Labs. There should be only 4 or 5 at most.
I have copies of 4 of the 5 that were proposed earlier. Walter may
still have a copy of the 5th one. After the mission statement issue
is settled, I'll send what I have out so you can all work on getting
them just the way they should be.
Please understand, goals are NOT the same as objectives. They are
much more general. Objectives are designed to help achieve the goals
and have a definite form... /who/ will do /what/ by /when/, /how/
will it be done and /how/ will success be measured. Goals do NOT have
these elements!
Proposals for future use of Sugar Labs funds should be directed to
meet specific /objectives/ and thus our goals and our mission. They
are all interconnected.
Caryl
P.S. Shouldn't there be a SLOB meeting today? I didn't see a notice
on the iaep list.
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