Add to this Earth Treasury's mission: to do whatever is vital to the success of OLPC and Sugar Labs, but out of their scope. Our projects include
o Electricity and Internet for villages. o Microfinance for international business, such as e-commerce. o Two diskless computers and a USB stick per child, where appropriate. One computer at school, one at home. (We get to use most of the computer gear that other NGOs are currently throwing away.) o Reinventing textbooks to incorporate software and hardware capabilities of the XO. o Yet Another Global Marshall Plan. o Political engagement to create a mass movement in support of one-to-one computing and Powerful Ideas. o Recruiting for any purpose of OLPC or Sugar Labs not presently being fulfilled. Ask me when you have a problem. o Fundraising. On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) mission is "to create educational > opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child > with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and > software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning." > > Sugar Labs has a complementary mission to serves as a support base and > gathering place for the community of educators and software developers > who want to extend the Sugar learning platform and create > Sugar-compatible applications. > > Sugar, originally developed for the OLPC XO laptop, *is* "software > designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning." Sugar > provides a simple yet powerful means of engaging young children in the > world of learning that is opened up by computers and the Internet. > With Sugar, even the youngest learner will quickly become proficient > in using the computer as a tool to engage in authentic > problem-solving. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and > reflection, developing skills that help them in all aspects of life. > > OLPC continues to pursue its laptop mission and is dedicating its > engineering resources to making the OLPC XO laptop more readily > deployable. The Sugar Labs community is refining Sugar and is > continues to work closely with OLPC in support of its mission. > > The Sugar community is growing as it purses additional opportunities > for getting Sugar into the hands of children. As new opportunities > emerge, the roles of the two organizations are becoming more distinct: > (a) OLPC continues to ship Sugar on all of its laptops, as more > laptops are shipped, more Sugar is deployed; (b) over time, as the > number of non-OLPC deployments of Sugar increase, OLPC will be > directly supporting a relatively smaller proportion of the Sugar > development; and (c) many OLPC employees remain deeply committed as > individuals to advancing Sugar and they continue to make core > contributions to the Sugar community. > > As both individuals and organizations we share the common goal of > getting great tools for thinking and learning into the hands of the > children of the world. > > > -walter > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
