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Oversight Board/2010/Meeting Minutes-2010-01-22 (view source)
Revision as of 08:55, 12 March 2010
, 08:55, 12 March 2010→Goals for 2010
* [[User:Mchua/Goals 2010|Mel Chua 2010 goals (draft)]]
* [[User:Mchua/Goals 2010|Mel Chua 2010 goals (draft)]]
=== 5-Year Goals ===
'''ROUGH DRAFT'''
Given the pace of social, economic, and technological change, it is difficult predict what the context for Sugar Labs will be in 2015. However, we can frame our goals on some relatively stable ground: the developmental needs of young learners will not change; the value of a Constructionist approach will elusive to formal measurement but obvious to parents and teachers who see it in practice; and the disadvantaged (e.g, the poor, women and children) will need the affordances provided by learning. Less certain is the future of Free Software—personally, I think that its numerous advantages will be better recognized and it will be the obvious choice for education. The answer to another question, the extent to which learning becomes "cloud-based", is to me less certain. It is hard to ignore the dramatic rise in numbers and reach of "smart" phones, it is hard to imagine even in 5 years that an affordable infrastructure will be available to support a primarily on-line learning experience for most children. "Under a tree" collaboration will remain central.
In five years:
# Sugar will be the learning platform of choice (our bottom-up adoption rate by teachers and parents will out-pace our top-down adoption rate by ministers and administrators):
## We will have a stable, "proven" platform that is easily customized;
## We will have well-established channels of communication with and among teachers and parents;
## We will have simple, robust distribution channels.
# There will be local Sugar user groups measured in the 10000s:
## These groups will be providing most of the support and development of Sugar;
## Sugar activities will number in the 100000s and 99% of these will have been written by teachers and children;
## Sugar will be integrated into computer science and education school curricula, providing a talent pool for the local labs.
# Sugar, while still being primarily a stand-alone platform, will work fluidly within the context of mobile devices and web-based services.
# Sugar will remain focused on the needs of learning. (While the platform itself will be adopted and adapted for other problem spaces, the focus of the Sugar Labs community will remain: "how does this impact learning?")
## We will continue to promote Free Software;
## Be transparent and open to critique;
## Encourage new people to join our project;
## We will enable individuals to be expressive with Sugar such that they can pursue their own goals and we will have a mechanism for sharing those goals and successes.
=== Future issues to address ===
=== Future issues to address ===
None immediately, as of now - [[Oversight_Board/Minutes]] may provide some inspiration. Please add topics to the list if they come up.
None immediately, as of now - [[Oversight_Board/Minutes]] may provide some inspiration. Please add topics to the list if they come up.