On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Very nice, Walter! Let's just change the motion to reflect your version. > Therefore, > I propose that the following motion be considered at the April SLOB meeting: > > > *_____________________________________________________________________________________________* > > *The 2017 Mission Statement for Sugar Labs shall be as follows:* > > *Sugar Labs is a volunteer-run project whose mission is to reach learners > and educators globally* > * * > *with a collection of tools that enable them to explore, discover, > create, and reflect. Sugar Labs distributes these tools freely and > encourages its users to appropriate them, taking ownership and > responsibility for their learning.* > > *_____________________________________________________________________________________________* > I believe we want the adverb, globally, for how we reach, rather than the adjective, global, that limits the set of learners and educators, some of whom may value Sugar's strength at being local. In fact, that seems to be part of our mission: ...a collection of tools that enable them to explore, discover, create, and reflect in their local language.
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