On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 19:05 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > 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.
'Not-for-profit member supported corporation' covers the donations issues. The form of the donation does not matter. It can be engineering resources, equipment, or cash. A not-for-profit is able to sell items. Issues don't arise until the sale of those items becomes a significant portion of the NFP's business. > What do you think the ecosystem will consist of, and how do you want > to work with it? In my mind the ecosystem is any organization or individual that functions together with Sugar Labs. Currently, that involves * System integrators such as OLPC. * Distributors such as Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu. * Upstreams such as Gnome. * Hardware Vendors. * Software developers. In the future that can be: * Software Vendors. * Consultants who help deploy sugar to schools and classrooms. * .... > 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. >From my current perspective, microfinance institutions, electricity and Internet bandwidth are beyond the direct scope of Sugar Labs. They would be very welcome additions to the ecosystem. dfarning _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
