This is great! Thank you Sameer! I recently began updating the ideas I drafted a few years ago with Samson. Please let us know where to submit the ideas when you are ready :D
On 11 January 2018 at 17:21, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > Greetings! > > Here is a proposal to solicit various goals towards mission of > Sugarlabs. I am sending this out as per my comments on the recent > #sugar-meeting on IRC. > > In the past, I have noticed that whenever we propose to discuss > various goals that this community may pursue, we tend to fail quite > rapidly at not arriving at a consensus. It is not that we have > incorrect ideas about how we think the project should proceed. We tend > to disagree prematurely. To remedy the situation, I am proposing that > we gather opinions from the community about goals and do so in a > manner where it remains temporarily shielded from public view. Then, > at a given time (say two weeks) we make all of these items public. > This may reveal if we have convergent ideas or if we are still very > divergent. Either is okay. > > Next, we would try to merge similar items into tangible goals with a > specific time frame. Depending on who the champions are for a specific > goal and its objectives, these people may then band together into an > ad-hoc group and pursue said goals. > > The time line for this project is relatively short. I propose that we > collect ideas for two weeks. At the end of two weeks, we would then > make the items public, and solicit more ideas for a third week. At the > end of the third week, we would then try to collate similar responses > into clusters of tangible goals. From there on, each set of goals may > be pursued independently, depending on its sponsors, champions, > supporters and participants. > > If this sounds like something that will help us move forward, I am > ready to set this in motion. I have already discussed this with > Hillary Naylor, who is an active participant in our OLPC-SF group. > When it's time to collate responses, I may solicit some more help from > some of you. > > cheers, > Sameer > -- > Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Professor, Information Systems > San Francisco State University > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Cheers Dave
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