On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:45 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As we go forward with Sugar Labs, it is important that we clearly define > our mission and goals. Going through the mailing list archives I have > come up with the following Mission Statement: > > Sugar Labs is an open source community, whose projects are focused on > building an educational platform based on the principles of > collaboration, reflection, discovery. Sugar Labs is a not-for-profit, > member supported corporation that helps cultivate both an open source > community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.
Not bad. We will have to make it explicit if we also want to take corporate and foundation donations, sell products, or anything else in that line. I recommend at least shirts and coffee mugs. What do you think the ecosystem will consist of, and how do you want to work with it? I am thinking of organizations (including microfinance institutions) for providing the electricity and Internet bandwidth to make XOs work in villages, for redesigning curricular and textbooks around the new hardware and software capabilities for collaborative discovery and so on, and for preparing the way for economic growth. For that it appears to me that we or somebody must focus on getting children into communication around the world in sufficient safety, and teaching them how to go into business together. > 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
