[IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugarlabs and Sugar are different

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Mon Jun 27 21:39:19 EDT 2016


On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Lionel Laské <lionel.laske at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Great work.
> Very clear.
> May be you could share your slides too for those that had no time to see
> the video.
>
> Posted to the wiki.
https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Sugarlabs_Strategic_Plan.pdf

Sameer


>         Lionel.
>
> 2016-06-25 0:20 GMT+02:00 Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu>:
>
>> 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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