<div dir="ltr"><div>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. <br><br></div>1) There is a lot of confusion over the terms. Vision, Mission, Goals, etc. <br clear="all"><div><div>2) Perhaps the confusion stems from not knowing how these pieces fit together, and the roles these play.<br></div><div>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. <br><br></div><div>I've put together a screencast describing how all these things are related. I hope this will bring some clarity. <br><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/1/18/Sugarlabs-strategy-overview.webm">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/1/18/Sugarlabs-strategy-overview.webm</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers,<br>Sameer<br></div><div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>Professor, Information Systems<br>San Francisco State University<br><a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a></div>
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