<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Laura<br><br></div>My issue with this statement is that it is reductionist: "SL is a community for learning about software". Which is certainly true, but fundamentally we offer software, not a learning service.<br><br></div>Our vision should be a mission (to develop high-quality software for children worldwide) and an overarching goal (making our software easily available to learners and teachers) and an indicator of how we plan to do this (web-based, multi-platform, XO-4, ...).<br><br></div><div>Project recruitment, the grocery list of goals, fundraising, pointing to past successes, how we will adapt to a very different IT context from 2007, all flow from an easy-to-understand vision statement which most accurately tells the story concisely.<br><br></div><div>Sean<br><br></div><div><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Laura Vargas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laura@somosazucar.org" target="_blank">laura@somosazucar.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I propose to adopt the following statement as the vision statement:<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font size="4">Sugar Labs is a global community where you can learn how to design, develop and deploy high-quality </font><span style="font-size:large">Free</span><span style="font-size:large"> </span><font size="4">Software that facilitates self-discovery learning experiences and collaboration among young children of all continents. Join us!</font><span style="font-size:large"> </span></div></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><div>I regret the late submission of this proposal, but not until today I understood the vision is not about the software but the community. It is a summary of what has been written in the wiki, so that it has the ideal length of a vision statement while describing our reason to exist and at the same time serving as an inspirational quote to be part of this adventure. For reference on how to write a vision statement please visit: <a href="https://www.executestrategy.net/blog/write-good-vision-statement/" target="_blank">https://www.executestrategy.net/blog/write-good-vision-statement/</a></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="4">Laura V.<br>
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