[IAEP] OLPC and Sugar Labs -- a Sugar Labs perspective

[David Farning]

I would also add a clause (d) similar to the following.

(d) many Sugar Labs community members remain deeply committed as
individuals to advancing the XO and they continue to develop,
distribute, and support Sugar on the XO.

With or without the new clause, I will stand behind Walter's statement:)

FWIW, my personal statement.

Recent advances in technology are making it cost effective for every
child to own or access a computer connected to the Internet.  An
increased accessibility to knowledge and education, on this scale,
last happened with the advent of the printing press.  OLPC and Sugar
Labs are leading these advances.

thanks
david

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) mission is "to create educational
> opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child
> with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and
> software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."
>
> Sugar Labs has a complementary mission to serves as a support base and
> gathering place for the community of educators and software developers
> who want to extend the Sugar learning platform and create
> Sugar-compatible applications.
>
> Sugar, originally developed for the OLPC XO laptop, *is* "software
> designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning." Sugar
> provides a simple yet powerful means of engaging young children in the
> world of learning that is opened up by computers and the Internet.
> With Sugar, even the youngest learner will quickly become proficient
> in using the computer as a tool to engage in authentic
> problem-solving. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and
> reflection, developing skills that help them in all aspects of life.
>
> OLPC continues to pursue its laptop mission and is dedicating its
> engineering resources to making the OLPC XO laptop more readily
> deployable. The Sugar Labs community is refining Sugar and is
> continues to work closely with OLPC in support of its mission.
>
> The Sugar community is growing as it purses additional opportunities
> for getting Sugar into the hands of children. As new opportunities
> emerge, the roles of the two organizations are becoming more distinct:
> (a) OLPC continues to ship Sugar on all of its laptops, as more
> laptops are shipped, more Sugar is deployed; (b) over time, as the
> number of non-OLPC deployments of Sugar increase, OLPC will be
> directly supporting a relatively smaller proportion of the Sugar
> development; and (c) many OLPC employees remain deeply committed as
> individuals to advancing Sugar and they continue to make core
> contributions to the Sugar community.
>
> As both individuals and organizations we share the common goal of
> getting great tools for thinking and learning into the hands of the
> children of the world.
>
>
> -walter
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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