Over the last couple of weeks, we have had some passionate discussions about growing Sugar Labs.
Most fascinating to me, from a community point of view, was the fact that these discussions emerged as a result of the success of the Sugar on a Stick release. The SoaS release was a great example of multiple teams synchronizing their efforts to create and implement a great release. Passions erupted about how to make future releases even better:) Then, or their own accord, the discussion ended and everyone went back to work on their own part of the project. This leads me to believe that: 1. We have a strong action focused community. 2. Our processes are 'good enough' that most people feel their efforts are having a positive impact on the project. 3. The discussions were about how to improve processes, planning, and communicating rather than 'throw out' what we have a start from scratch. With that in mind, I would like to revisit the importance of uniting around a common vision and mission. david ----- Mission and vision statements define an organization. The vision inspires. The mission focuses. Sugar Lab's vision represent what the world will look like... when we succeed. The vision statement is a dream of what is possible, what can change, what can improve. At it's core a vision statement expresses a need around which people everywhere can unite. :Sugar is the core component of a worldwide effort to provide every child with equal opportunity for a quality education. At Sugar Labs, we envision children everywhere using the Sugar learning platform, increasing the likelihood that they will use computation as a critical-thinking tool in the context of open-ended exploration and guided discovery. Sugar will transform the attitude of the next generation about school and learning, giving them skills and confidence to meet the challenging problems they will facing as adults. Sugar Lab's mission represent what Sugar Lab's does. The mission statement is what we must invent, implement, distribute, and support to make our vision a reality. At it's core a mission statement is ''a'' solution to the need expressed in the vision. :The mission of Sugar Labs is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the Sugar learning platform; it is a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and developers to create, extend, and teach with the Sugar learning platform. Over the next few weeks, we will look at how we can organize ourselves and set our prioritizes to make our vision a reality:) As we do this please consider: People support organizations because they meet needs, ''not'' because they have needs (or can define needs). * How does Sugar Labs meet those needs? * How does your team meet those needs? * How do your contributions meet those needs? * How do we insure that people's investments in Sugar Labs have significant impact? Please join the discussion over the next few weeks about how we can coordinate our efforts and resources to make our shared vision a reality. -- David Farning Sugar Labs www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
