[IAEP] Sugarlabs and Sugar are different

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

Hello Sameer, i couldn't watch the video because of the format (.webm),
except i am online, because of where i am i can't really watch the video
online, can i get a download link.

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

>
> Thank you, Caryl :-) I was a bit pressed for time (I had to pick up my
> kids from school), so perhaps I glossed over some of the terms. Yes, please
> do move the tracker back and forth, and ask questions. This is a process,
> and a process that works. We are not the first with this confusion, and we
> have examples in other projects for different but aligned strategies.
> Drupal and Drupal Association is one such example. (Note: I serve on the
> Board of Directors of the Drupal Association, so I'm familiar with those
> details).
>
> https://www.drupal.org/about/mission-and-principles
> https://assoc.drupal.org/about
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
> --
> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Professor, Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All...
>>
>> Very well done Sameer!  I hope everyone takes the approximately 35
>> minutes to view this excellent clarification of what exactly is meant by
>> terms like "Vision," "Mission," "Goals," "Objectives," and "Tasks."  Much
>> of the discussions trying to address these items have been a bit
>> "off-base," not for a lack of enthusiasm but, rather, from a lack of
>> understanding of how things in business (and, yes, in education too)
>> actually work. Maybe once we are all speaking the same language we can make
>> some concrete progress in addressing these issues.
>>
>> Sameer is a wonderful person to guide us in this process… after all, as a
>> tenured professor in the Business School of San Francisco State University,
>> he probably knows more about this process than all the rest of us combined!
>>
>> Happy viewing…. warning, this is very educational. It is like a lecture
>> in a college level… maybe even graduate level course.  Expect to be
>> challenged. Expect to need to drag the marker back once in a while to
>> revisit a term. It will be will worth the time and can serve you well in
>> other areas of your life besides Sugar and SugarLabs!
>>
>> Caryl
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: sverma at sfsu.edu
>> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 15:20:49 -0700
>> To: slobs at lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> Subject: [IAEP] Sugarlabs and Sugar are different
>>
>>
>> It's been interesting to watch the conversations around vision, mission,
>> marketing, etc. over the last few weeks. Several observations emerge. Here
>> are a few that I think are relevant to us.
>>
>> 1) There is a lot of confusion over the terms. Vision, Mission, Goals,
>> etc.
>> 2) Perhaps the confusion stems from not knowing how these pieces fit
>> together, and the roles these play.
>> 3) There are several confounding variables at play. For example, Sugar is
>> a FOSS project. Sugarlabs is an agency established to
>> foster/facilitate/support Sugar, the project. However, the two are not the
>> same. So, in our effort to establish a strategic plan, the unit of analysis
>> should be clear. For me, as a SLOB member, the unit of analysis is
>> Sugarlabs, the agency. Everything I look at, is through that lens,
>> including Sugar, OLPC, Sugarizer, etc.
>>
>> I've put together a screencast describing how all these things are
>> related. I hope this will bring some clarity.
>> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/1/18/Sugarlabs-strategy-overview.webm
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>> --
>> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> Professor, Information Systems
>> San Francisco State University
>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>>
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