Hi Laura My issue with this statement is that it is reductionist: "SL is a community for learning about software". Which is certainly true, but fundamentally we offer software, not a learning service.
Our vision should be a mission (to develop high-quality software for children worldwide) and an overarching goal (making our software easily available to learners and teachers) and an indicator of how we plan to do this (web-based, multi-platform, XO-4, ...). Project recruitment, the grocery list of goals, fundraising, pointing to past successes, how we will adapt to a very different IT context from 2007, all flow from an easy-to-understand vision statement which most accurately tells the story concisely. Sean On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Laura Vargas <[email protected]> wrote: > I propose to adopt the following statement as the vision statement: > > Sugar Labs is a global community where you can learn how to design, > develop and deploy high-quality Free Software that facilitates > self-discovery learning experiences and collaboration among young children > of all continents. Join us! > > I regret the late submission of this proposal, but not until today I > understood the vision is not about the software but the community. It is a > summary of what has been written in the wiki, so that it has the ideal > length of a vision statement while describing our reason to exist and at > the same time serving as an inspirational quote to be part of this > adventure. For reference on how to write a vision statement please visit: > https://www.executestrategy.net/blog/write-good-vision-statement/ > > -- > Laura V. > I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org > IRC kaametza > > Happy Learning! > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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