[IAEP] Sugarlabs and Sugar are different

[Sameer Verma]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Chihurumnaya Ibiam <
ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> You can right-click and save the webm video. It will play in Firefox or
Chrome/ Chromium natively.

Sameer


> 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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