[IAEP] Motion to adopt the 2016 vision for Sugar Labs

[Tony Anderson]

I believe Sugar is intended to enable a computer to provide enhanced 
educational opportunities; especially to those who have limited access to
the Internet. One goal of Sugar is to bring to reality the educational 
concepts of Seymour Papert and Alan Kay.

Tony

On 06/03/2016 11:28 AM, iaep-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 08:57:29 -0600
> From: Dave Crossland<dave at lab6.com>
> To: Laura Vargas<laura at somosazucar.org>
> Cc: iaep<iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, SLOBs<slobs at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Motion to adopt the 2016 vision for Sugar Labs
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> Hi
>
> I understood that the one-liner statement is a 'mission statement,'
> and the 'vision statement' is the longer text that expresses the
> details implied by the mission, the high level goals, and more
> specific values.
>
> The article you mention,
> https://www.executestrategy.net/blog/write-good-vision-statement  , has
> a good 'funnel' diagram showing this, with blocks for "values."
>
> Here's a nice list of non profit mission statements:
> https://topnonprofits.com/examples/nonprofit-mission-statements/
>
> So I propose to adopt the following statement as the mission
> statement, starting from your text and taking Sean's comments into
> account:
>
> To be a welcoming global community where anyone can learn how to
> develop high-quality libre software that facilitates learning through
> self-discovery and collaboration among young children of all
> continents, and to make that software easily available to learners and
> teachers.
>
> Cheers
> Dave