[IAEP] Correction Needed on the SL wiki [wiki bug]

[Laura Vargas]

Hi Dave, Walter,

I understand you have been helping out with the updates to the decisions
wiki page and therefore I'm reporting to you I found the following bug on
the 2016-05-11 motion, it states:
2016-05-11[edit

 | edit source

]FAILED MOTION 2016-20 Walter Benderto allow the mentors participating in
Google Summer of Code to disperse the mentor stipend among themselves as
they see fit. : (3 votes for, 1 vote against, and 4 abstains)


For a total of 8 votes. I believe this was made by email but I have no
access to all possible votes as I wasn't part of the board at the time.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Laura V.
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Re: [IAEP] Motion To Approve 2017 Sugar Labs Mission Statement

[Lionel Laské]

Hi Caryl,

Thanks for this complete and excellent job.
I'm agree with the last update of Walter.
@Tony, I think the new version is more general. We don't need to mention tools 
in mission, we'll do it in objectives.

Thanks again for this work Caryl. I'm okay to second the motion.

  Lionel



From: Tony Anderson 
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 2:59:12 AM
To: Caryl Bigenho; walter.ben...@gmail.com; Samson Goddy; sameer verma; 
igna...@sugarlabs.org; Lionel Laské; Adam Holt; Laura Vargas; 
iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; José Miguel García
Subject: Re: Motion To Approve 2017 Sugar Labs Mission Statement

Hi, Caryl

In the January 2017 meeting, the SLOBS approved the following motion:

motion: "Sugar is a learning platform based on the constructionist educational 
principles of Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon, and Alan Kay. Sugar 
Labs is responsible to develop, distribute, and support Sugar with the help of 
a global volunteer community of contributors. Sugar Labs provides Sugar in two 
forms: Sugar for personal computers and XOs and Sugarizer (Sugar Mobile) for 
mobile devices and the Web."

This seems to satisfy the definition of a mission statement.

Tony

On 04/22/2017 01:12 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:

Hello All,


This is long, but it needs to be done…


It’s time to “fish or cut bait” as they say. We need to move on with the 
Mission Statement and Goals for Sugar Labs. I am submitting a Mission Statement 
as a motion to be considered for approval at the April SLOB meeting. Then, with 
that in hand, we can move on to settle on 4-5 broad reaching goals to go with 
the Mission Statement to be voted on in May or June.  Specific objectives would 
come after that.


Most of the things people have put on the wiki are neither a mission statement 
nor are they goals. They are Objectives. But most of them lack the specifics to 
be considered a true objective.


So… what do we need in a Mission Statement?


First let’s take a peek at the current one… yes we do have one and I found it 
sitting right at the beginning of the Sugar Labs website 
(https://www.sugarlabs.org/)


At Sugar Labs, we make a collection of tools that learners use to explore, 
discover, create, and reflect. We are non-profit and led by volunteers. We 
distribute these tools freely and encourage our users to appropriate them, 
taking ownership and responsibility for their learning.


Not bad for starters! Now let’s take a look at that Wikipedia says about 
Mission Statements:


Definition:

A mission statement is a short statement of an organization's purpose, 
identifying the scope of its operations: what kind of product or service it 
provides, its primary customers or market, and its geographical region of 
operation. ... The purpose of a mission statement is to focus and direct the 
organization itself.


Here is the Mission Statement I posted last month, based on an excellent 
document Walter had written about Sugar Labs:


Sugar Labs Mission Statement:

The mission of Sugar Labs is to reach global learners (and educators) with 
powerful free and open source educational tools to help them in engage 
Constructionist learning.

So, with a minimum of editing, we can combine the two to get this:

Sugar Labs Mission Statement:

The mission of Sugar Labs is to reach global learners and educators with a 
collection of tools that enable them to explore, discover, create, and reflect. 
We are a non-profit and led by volunteers. We distribute these tools freely and 
encourage our users to appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility 
for their learning.


O.K. Let's see if that meets the criteria in the definition of a Mission 
Statement as stated above.

  *   purpose... check! The whole statement
  *   scope of operations... check! Global
  *   kind of product or service or service... check! Learning tools 
distributed freely
  *   primary customers or market... check! Learners and educators
  *   geographical region... check! Global


Therefore, I propose that the following motion be considered at the April SLOB 
meeting:

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The 2017 Mission Statement for Sugar Labs shall be as follows:


The mission of Sugar Labs is to reach global learners and educators with a 
collection of tools that enable them to explore, discover, create, and reflect. 
We are a non-profit and led by volunteers. We distribute these tools freely and 
encourage our users to appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility 
for their learning.

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Now, some sample mission statements from a few well known organizations and 
businesses. You will note that some of the biggest and most successful have 
very simple, concise mission statements:


* “Google's mission statement is “to organize