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===Regarding the Sugar Labs Oversight Board===
===Regarding the Sugar Labs Oversight Board===
I am in deep. I live and breath Sugar every moment of every day. Perhaps too much (Mentoring students in Google Code In doesn't help the situation any). But I really do think that Sugar is of great value to learners and, although we are swimming against the tide of the mainstream (learning as consumption), we have had and continue to have a positive influence.
Follow this link to my [[User:Walter/2011_position_statement|2011 Position Statement]].
I've spent much of the past two years advocating on behalf of Sugar (I've literally traveled the world to speak about Sugar). The good thing is that being captive in an airplane is a great place to write code. When I speak about Sugar, I use Sugar: i.e., every talk I have given in the past 5 years has been written in Turtle Art.
Of late, I have also been working on raising money towards specific goals. Most recently, with help from Chris and Claudia, I got a grant for Sugar Labs from Trip Advisor to support our localization efforts and our efforts to promote programming by children (See turtleartday.org). I plan to do more targeted fund-raising over the next two years as the needs of our community come more sharply into focus. At the same time, I have been working hard (with Gonzalo and Tincho) to help local deployments fill in some of the development gaps left by the dispersal of the OLPC engineering team. Finally, I am working on developing a new program at MIT to rally universities around Sugar as a research and development platform. All of these efforts are enhanced by my role as a member of the Sugar Labs oversight board. Having an "official" role in the organization gives me more clout with potential donors and collaborators.
My colleagues on the oversight board and in the general community are the best. Thank you for your contributions to the project.
==== 2011 ===
Follow this link to my [[User:Walter/2011_position_statement|2009 Position Statement]].
Two years ago, I said:
Two years ago, I said: