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

[José Miguel García]

Hola!
Estoy de acuerdo con lo que plantean Tony, Claudia.
Entiendo que el foco debe estar en las nuevas formas de aprender de los
niños.

Saludos


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Lic. José Miguel García
Montevideo - Uruguay

2016-06-20 4:23 GMT-03:00 Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>:

> 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/Libre Software 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> 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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