[IAEP] Sugar Labs mission statement.

[Sameer Verma]

David Farning wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 22:25 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> IMHO the mission statement should also  include a mention of how
>>> educators  are an integral part of defining and structuring the
>>> ecosystem.
>>>       
>> I hope that the mission and the ecology include bringing teachers,
>> students, and parents together on creating the new curriculum and a
>> new kind of Free textbook incorporating Sugar software capabilities.
>>     
>
> I am reluctant to start enumerating specific groups in the community.  I
> welcome anyone who shares the goals of 'building an educational platform
> based on the principles of collaboration, reflection, discovery.'
>
>   

How would you define "platform". Is it specific as in OS, or generic as
in "ecosystem"?

Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/


>>  I
>> am concerned that we are putting so much effort into software and
>> essentially nothing into new textbooks. (FLOSS Manuals and some
>> developers are doing a great job on documentation, but that is a
>> separate issue.)
>>     
>
> Sugar Labs is a community project;)  If anyone is not happy with the
> community direction 'patches are welcome.'
>
> thanks
> dfarning
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>