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Our 2016 goals include:
 
Our 2016 goals include:
* making XO-4s—the machine we aspired to build at OLPC in 2006 is available as the XO-4 laptop—available from us pre-installed with the 2016 release of Sugar individually or in batches of 20+ with 1+ school server units, so any developer can get one conveniently and any classroom-sized group anywhere can become a Local Lab with almost "1 click" like convenience if they have $X to put down;
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* Providing a step-by-step guide on the homepage website to setting up a 2016 vintage deployment device—one that can be purchased in quantities of 30+ for under $100 each—that covers where to buy them, how install Sugar on all of them at the time of deployment;
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* successfully completing 6 GSoC projects;
 
* successfully completing 6 GSoC projects;
* fully staffing all boards, offices, and committees;
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* making 2 releases of Sugar, one in February and one in October;
* making 2 releases of Sugar;
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* Allow running Sugar Activities outside Sugar;
 
* porting 5 Activities to Sugarizer, a web-based version of Sugar;
 
* porting 5 Activities to Sugarizer, a web-based version of Sugar;
* Allow running Sugar Activities outside Sugar;
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* Localize all 5 activities/games that were produced in Collaboration with the Children of the Seed-Programmers Workshop+SugarCamp in Chía (La ciudad de la luna ;) Colombia on 2014;
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* Make "Sugar On A Stick" into "Sugar Local Lab On A Stick," so that sugar communities without active/direct internet connections can do more to self-support themselves, and eventually upload what they have back to the central repos;
 
* Make "Sugar On A Stick" into "Sugar Local Lab On A Stick," so that sugar communities without active/direct internet connections can do more to self-support themselves, and eventually upload what they have back to the central repos;
 
** Sugarizer becomes self-translatable, and via sugar-web thus make sugar desktop self-translatable;
 
** Sugarizer becomes self-translatable, and via sugar-web thus make sugar desktop self-translatable;
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Organization:
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* fully staffing all boards, offices, and committees;
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* making XO-4s—the machine we aspired to build at OLPC in 2006 is available as the XO-4 laptop—available from us pre-installed with the 2016 release of Sugar individually or in batches of 20+ with 1+ school server units, so any developer can get one conveniently and any classroom-sized group anywhere can become a Local Lab with almost "1 click" like convenience if they have $X to put down;
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** organizing a new laptop for kids with a 10" screen and larger keyboard than the XO, so adults can use it too (similar to the 10" macbook pro from around 2004, or many 10" chromebooks today) that has '''zero proprietary software''' (bios, firmware, drivers, soundcard, wifi, graphics card, etc) and is FSF endorsed
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* consolidating all active development to Github;
 
* consolidating all active development to Github;
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** Making the github org membership a 'badge of honor' similar to [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html the old certificates];
 
** Making the github org membership a 'badge of honor' similar to [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html the old certificates];
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* cleaning up all Sugar Labs websites, starting with the wiki and issue tracker;
 
* cleaning up all Sugar Labs websites, starting with the wiki and issue tracker;
* liberate the ''Learning To Change The World'' text;
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* Localize all 5 activities/games that were produced in Collaboration with the Children of the Seed-Programmers Workshop+SugarCamp in Chía (La ciudad de la luna ;) Colombia on 2014;
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** Providing a step-by-step guide on the homepage website to setting up a 2016 vintage deployment device—one that can be purchased in quantities of 30+ for under $100 each—that covers where to buy them, how install Sugar on all of them at the time of deployment;
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** liberate the ''Learning To Change The World'' text;
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* Setting up a membership donation programme to elevate members to "supporting" members
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** Developing an supporting members list, by making a 'super list' with as many possible members as possible, such as from [[Special:LastUserLogin]] (admins only) and mailman and [[Sugar_Labs/Members/List]], and then making persistent attempts to contact them until they pay a membership donation, ask for a membership bursary so they don't have to pay the fee personally, or tell us to go away
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* Running a joyful election for the 2017 board
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** Deploying a SL instance of the https://dem.tools Elections app (https://github.com/nditech/elections)
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* [your goal here]
 
* [your goal here]

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