[IAEP] [SLOBS] Motion to update current SL vision statement

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Dave

This email is a clear example of the confusion we are having. You 
describe it as a mission statement (not a vision statement).
However, your title describes an 'update' to the current Sugar Labs 
vision statement. Could you provide the text of what you believe is the 
current Sugar Labs vision statement that is to be updated?

This is the version I was responding to, which seems to be a re-write by 
you of Laura's statement:

"Sugar Labs is a global community where you can learn how to design, 
develop and deploy high-quality Free/LibreSoftware that facilitates 
self-discovery learning experiences and collaboration among young 
children of all continents."

I disagree completely with this statement as a vision for Sugar Labs. 
This makes us sound like a community for training adult software 
developers. Our vision needs to be of the educational advantages which 
we want our product,Sugar to provide. This product is designed to 
facilitate learning by young (grade school) learners based on ideas from 
Seymour Papert and Alan Kay.

I agree strongly that work with and on Sugar can lead to learning 
technical computer skills. I try to emphasize that in presentations and 
workshops that in the XO, the user has free access to all of the latest 
software: using the command line, building scripts, programming in 
Python, developing web sites with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, developing 
administrative skills in networking and system maintenance.
However, this is not the /ra//ison d'etre/ for Sugar.

Tony

On 06/20/2016 05:29 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
> On 19 June 2016 at 13:20, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net 
> <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>> wrote:
>
>     Unfortunately, this is not my vision of Sugar Labs or Sugar. I see
>     Sugar as an educational opportunity provided to users of the OLPC XO
>     and others. Naturally, it takes software engineers to develop and
>     maintain this software, but the vision must be about the result -
>     Sugar and the
>     benefits if offers in an educational setting.
>
>
> Do you think the existing mission statement that Laura quoted above 
> conveys this result adequately?
>
> I am unsure if you think the mission should be changed, or kept the same.

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