<div dir="auto">I like the idea too. Thanks Sameer for bringing it up. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 24, 2018 9:39 PM, "Sameer Verma" <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks, Dave! I haven't forgotten your persistence :-) I really appreciate your continued interest. In fact, I may need your assistance at some point, once we have a healthy set of responses. Stay tuned. Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University <a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com">dave@lab6.com</a>> wrote: > This is great! Thank you Sameer! > > I recently began updating the ideas I drafted a few years ago with Samson. > Please let us know where to submit the ideas when you are ready :D > > On 11 January 2018 at 17:21, Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote: >> >> Greetings! >> >> Here is a proposal to solicit various goals towards mission of >> Sugarlabs. I am sending this out as per my comments on the recent >> #sugar-meeting on IRC. >> >> In the past, I have noticed that whenever we propose to discuss >> various goals that this community may pursue, we tend to fail quite >> rapidly at not arriving at a consensus. It is not that we have >> incorrect ideas about how we think the project should proceed. We tend >> to disagree prematurely. To remedy the situation, I am proposing that >> we gather opinions from the community about goals and do so in a >> manner where it remains temporarily shielded from public view. Then, >> at a given time (say two weeks) we make all of these items public. >> This may reveal if we have convergent ideas or if we are still very >> divergent. Either is okay. >> >> Next, we would try to merge similar items into tangible goals with a >> specific time frame. Depending on who the champions are for a specific >> goal and its objectives, these people may then band together into an >> ad-hoc group and pursue said goals. >> >> The time line for this project is relatively short. I propose that we >> collect ideas for two weeks. At the end of two weeks, we would then >> make the items public, and solicit more ideas for a third week. At the >> end of the third week, we would then try to collate similar responses >> into clusters of tangible goals. From there on, each set of goals may >> be pursued independently, depending on its sponsors, champions, >> supporters and participants. >> >> If this sounds like something that will help us move forward, I am >> ready to set this in motion. I have already discussed this with >> Hillary Naylor, who is an active participant in our OLPC-SF group. >> When it's time to collate responses, I may solicit some more help from >> some of you. >> >> cheers, >> Sameer >> -- >> Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >> Professor, Information Systems >> San Francisco State University >> <a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > > > > > -- > Cheers > Dave _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></blockquote></div></div>