Hi, Dave
This email is a clear example of the confusion we are having. You
describe it as a mission statement (not a vision statement).
However, your title describes an 'update' to the current Sugar Labs
vision statement. Could you provide the text of what you believe is the
current Sugar Labs vision statement that is to be updated?
This is the version I was responding to, which seems to be a re-write by
you of Laura's statement:
"Sugar Labs is a global community where you can learn how to design,
develop and deploy high-quality Free/LibreSoftware that facilitates
self-discovery learning experiences and collaboration among young
children of all continents."
I disagree completely with this statement as a vision for Sugar Labs.
This makes us sound like a community for training adult software
developers. Our vision needs to be of the educational advantages which
we want our product,Sugar to provide. This product is designed to
facilitate learning by young (grade school) learners based on ideas from
Seymour Papert and Alan Kay.
I agree strongly that work with and on Sugar can lead to learning
technical computer skills. I try to emphasize that in presentations and
workshops that in the XO, the user has free access to all of the latest
software: using the command line, building scripts, programming in
Python, developing web sites with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, developing
administrative skills in networking and system maintenance.
However, this is not the /ra//ison d'etre/ for Sugar.
Tony
On 06/20/2016 05:29 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
On 19 June 2016 at 13:20, Tony Anderson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Unfortunately, this is not my vision of Sugar Labs or Sugar. I see
Sugar as an educational opportunity provided to users of the OLPC XO
and others. Naturally, it takes software engineers to develop and
maintain this software, but the vision must be about the result -
Sugar and the
benefits if offers in an educational setting.
Do you think the existing mission statement that Laura quoted above
conveys this result adequately?
I am unsure if you think the mission should be changed, or kept the same.
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