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

[Edward Cherlin]

Add to this Earth Treasury's mission: to do whatever is vital to the
success of OLPC and Sugar Labs, but out of their scope. Our projects
include

o Electricity and Internet for villages.

o Microfinance for international business, such as e-commerce.

o Two diskless computers and a USB stick per child, where appropriate.
One computer at school, one at home. (We get to use most of the
computer gear that other NGOs are currently throwing away.)

o Reinventing textbooks to incorporate software and hardware
capabilities of the XO.

o Yet Another Global Marshall Plan.

o Political engagement to create a mass movement in support of
one-to-one computing and Powerful Ideas.

o Recruiting for any purpose of OLPC or Sugar Labs not presently being
fulfilled. Ask me when you have a problem.

o Fundraising.

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:25 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
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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