[IAEP] Sugar Labs - Good starting position.

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

>> 2.  Lack of vision.  The second reason organizations hesitate to become
>> involved with Sugar Labs is our lack of vision.  There is a perception
>> that Sugar development has stalled.
>
> This surprises me a lot. I can't think of an open source project with a
> vision as strong and as ambitious as Sugar. Either we are doing a very
> bad job at communicating it, either we are giving a different meaning to
> the term "vision". Maybe you are thinking more about lack of roadmap?
> (that's what I take from the stalled development bit).

I think the problem may be that the vision is too broad for people to 
digest.  Which is why I myself have latched on to a particular piece of 
that vision -- sharing by default -- as the part I choose to promote.

Simplify and amplify.  That's the way to put a message across.  :)

--g