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Pikurasa: Add meeting notes list

2025-02-19T19:29:38Z

Add meeting notes list

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	[[Sugar_Labs#Sugar_Labs:_a_community\|Sugar Labs®]] is a nonprofit association, consisting entirely of the free contributions of volunteers. Please see our [[Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved\|Getting Involved]] page for how you might contribute. Financial [[Sugar_Labs/Donate\|donations]] are used to support grassroots learning innovations and face-to-face meetings between developers and educators.		[[Sugar_Labs#Sugar_Labs:_a_community\|Sugar Labs®]] is a nonprofit association, consisting entirely of the free contributions of volunteers. Please see our [[Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved\|Getting Involved]] page for how you might contribute. Financial [[Sugar_Labs/Donate\|donations]] are used to support grassroots learning innovations and face-to-face meetings between developers and educators.

			== Sugar Website Dev meeting notes ==

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			[[Category:Website Dev Team]]
			[[Category:Meetings]]
	[[Category:Proposal]]		[[Category:Proposal]]

Pikurasa: I'll tell the laptop.org folks that www.laptop.org doesn't work...

2024-04-09T20:01:57Z

I'll tell the laptop.org folks that www.laptop.org doesn't work...

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	* love is a better master than duty		* love is a better master than duty

	We can proudly point to visual evidence of this in our [~~http~~://~~www.~~laptop.org/ OLPC deployments] of Sugar.		We can proudly point to visual evidence of this in our [https://laptop.org/ OLPC deployments] of Sugar.

	The public can learn that it is the Sugar software that powers those computers; and it is people, dedicated to the Sugar principles, that drive the communities to collaborate for such joyful learning.		The public can learn that it is the Sugar software that powers those computers; and it is people, dedicated to the Sugar principles, that drive the communities to collaborate for such joyful learning.

Pikurasa: We linkify this same thing below; why link to it in the header? Also, CMoS "nonprofit" (it's a habit)

2024-04-09T20:00:32Z

We linkify this same thing below; why link to it in the header? Also, CMoS "nonprofit" (it's a habit)

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	We need your help in unleashing that potential! If you love children and collaboration and learning, and if you can help us with learning technology and software or any of the important bits needed to enliven and liberate our human potential in a project like this, then please join with us and contribute some of those billions of ways that '''''you''''' might help to propel Sugar learning into the future.		We need your help in unleashing that potential! If you love children and collaboration and learning, and if you can help us with learning technology and software or any of the important bits needed to enliven and liberate our human potential in a project like this, then please join with us and contribute some of those billions of ways that '''''you''''' might help to propel Sugar learning into the future.

	===~~[[Sugar_Labs#Sugar_Labs:_a_community\|~~Sugar Labs: a community]]===		===Sugar Labs: a community===
	[[Sugar_Labs#Sugar_Labs:_a_community\|Sugar Labs®]] is a ~~non-profit~~ association, consisting entirely of the free contributions of volunteers. Please see our [[Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved\|Getting Involved]] page for how you might contribute. Financial [[Sugar_Labs/Donate\|donations]] are used to support grassroots learning innovations and face-to-face meetings between developers and educators.		[[Sugar_Labs#Sugar_Labs:_a_community\|Sugar Labs®]] is a nonprofit association, consisting entirely of the free contributions of volunteers. Please see our [[Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved\|Getting Involved]] page for how you might contribute. Financial [[Sugar_Labs/Donate\|donations]] are used to support grassroots learning innovations and face-to-face meetings between developers and educators.

	[[Category:Proposal]]		[[Category:Proposal]]

Pikurasa: Put some info about our website

2024-04-09T19:19:01Z

Put some info about our website

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	==~~==http~~://www.sugarlabs.org====		=Sugar Labs's website=

			Our current website is https://www.sugarlabs.org

			==Helping out==

			To assist Sugar Labs with its current website, please check out the code at https://github.com/sugarlabs/www/. If you identify errors or places of improvement, you can publish an issue. If you know how to improve the website via its code, you can send us a pull request with changes. You can certainly learn a lot by making contributions to our website.

			=Our website's history=

	In the beginning, the Sugar Labs wiki was the homepage. In the spring of 2009, we prepared a small static HTML intro section to give a high-level overview of the project useful for teachers, parents, and journalists and which would direct people to appropriate areas of the wiki and other sites such as the Activities Library.		In the beginning, the Sugar Labs wiki was the homepage. In the spring of 2009, we prepared a small static HTML intro section to give a high-level overview of the project useful for teachers, parents, and journalists and which would direct people to appropriate areas of the wiki and other sites such as the Activities Library.

	==2011 website revamp==		==2011 website revamp==

	In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing Team#MIT Sloan MarketLab Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)		In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing Team#MIT Sloan MarketLab Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)

	Professor Stephen Jacobs of the Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT, is working with us through two of his students, Mike Devine and JT Mengel, to revamp our website. They ~~travelled~~ to New York City on March 18, 2011, and spent the day in a workshop with Christian Marc Schmidt. Snapshots of that day's whiteboards are here: [[:File:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg\|website revamp workshop whiteboard1]] and here: [[:File:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard2.jpg\|website revamp workshop whiteboard2]]; first version of overview of the new website's sections is here: [[:File:Sugarlabs_workshop_20110318.pdf\|Sugar Labs workshop 2011 March 18]]		Professor Stephen Jacobs of the Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT, is working with us through two of his students, Mike Devine and JT Mengel, to revamp our website. They traveled to New York City on March 18, 2011, and spent the day in a workshop with Christian Marc Schmidt. Snapshots of that day's whiteboards are here: [[:File:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg\|website revamp workshop whiteboard1]] and here: [[:File:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard2.jpg\|website revamp workshop whiteboard2]]; first version of overview of the new website's sections is here: [[:File:Sugarlabs_workshop_20110318.pdf\|Sugar Labs workshop 2011 March 18]]




	The sections below are a place to explore and summarize ideas collected from our community on how best to market Sugar Labs through a web site for our primary target market, teachers.		The sections below are a place to explore and summarize ideas collected from our community on how best to market Sugar Labs through a web site for our primary target market, teachers.

	===Collaboration===		===Collaboration===

	''Collaboration'' is a prime distinguishing feature of Sugar that we should naturally project in the image of Sugar Labs.		''Collaboration'' is a prime distinguishing feature of Sugar that we should naturally project in the image of Sugar Labs.

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	Our technologists want to learn how to teach machines to learn to collaborate with humans, and our educators want to learn how to teach humans to learn to learn with machines that can let humans collaborate in their learning. Wow! that's a lot of learning. But the freedom to learn that comes from having such free and powerful ideas and the companion of tools is unlimited.		Our technologists want to learn how to teach machines to learn to collaborate with humans, and our educators want to learn how to teach humans to learn to learn with machines that can let humans collaborate in their learning. Wow! that's a lot of learning. But the freedom to learn that comes from having such free and powerful ideas and the companion of tools is unlimited.


	We need your help in unleashing that potential! If you love children and collaboration and learning, and if you can help us with learning technology and software or any of the important bits needed to enliven and liberate our human potential in a project like this, then please join with us and contribute some of those billions of ways that '''''you''''' might help to propel Sugar learning into the future.		We need your help in unleashing that potential! If you love children and collaboration and learning, and if you can help us with learning technology and software or any of the important bits needed to enliven and liberate our human potential in a project like this, then please join with us and contribute some of those billions of ways that '''''you''''' might help to propel Sugar learning into the future.
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	===[[Sugar_Labs#Sugar_Labs:_a_community\|Sugar Labs: a community]]===		===[[Sugar_Labs#Sugar_Labs:_a_community\|Sugar Labs: a community]]===
	[[Sugar_Labs#Sugar_Labs:_a_community\|Sugar Labs®]] is a non-profit association, consisting entirely of the free contributions of volunteers. Please see our [[Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved\|Getting Involved]] page for how you might contribute. Financial [[Sugar_Labs/Donate\|donations]] are used to support grassroots learning innovations and face-to-face meetings between developers and educators.		[[Sugar_Labs#Sugar_Labs:_a_community\|Sugar Labs®]] is a non-profit association, consisting entirely of the free contributions of volunteers. Please see our [[Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved\|Getting Involved]] page for how you might contribute. Financial [[Sugar_Labs/Donate\|donations]] are used to support grassroots learning innovations and face-to-face meetings between developers and educators.


	[[Category:Proposal]]		[[Category:Proposal]]

FGrose at 03:43, 30 March 2011

2011-03-30T03:43:47Z

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	==2011 website revamp==		==2011 website revamp==
	In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[~~Marketing_Team~~#~~MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study~~]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)		In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing Team#MIT Sloan MarketLab Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)

	Professor Stephen Jacobs of RIT is working with us through two of his students, Mike Devine and JT Mengel, to revamp our website. They travelled to New York on March 18, 2011, and spent the day in a workshop with Christian Marc Schmidt. Snapshots of that day's whiteboards are here: [[~~Media~~:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg]] and here: [[~~Media~~:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard2.jpg]]; first version of overview of the new website's sections is here: [[~~Media~~:Sugarlabs_workshop_20110318.pdf]]		Professor Stephen Jacobs of the Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT, is working with us through two of his students, Mike Devine and JT Mengel, to revamp our website. They travelled to New York City on March 18, 2011, and spent the day in a workshop with Christian Marc Schmidt. Snapshots of that day's whiteboards are here: [[:File:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg\|website revamp workshop whiteboard1]] and here: [[:File:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard2.jpg\|website revamp workshop whiteboard2]]; first version of overview of the new website's sections is here: [[:File:Sugarlabs_workshop_20110318.pdf\|Sugar Labs workshop 2011 March 18]]

FGrose at 03:30, 30 March 2011

2011-03-30T03:30:36Z

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	===Joyful learning===		===Joyful learning===

	Children and teachers ''delighted in their learning'' experience is another prime distinguishing feature of Sugar deployments. This results from Sugar's founding principles:		Children and teachers ''delighted in their learning'' experience is another prime distinguishing feature of Sugar deployments. This results from Sugar's [[Sugar Labs\|founding principles]]:

	* everyone is a teacher and a learner		* everyone is a teacher and a learner

SeanDaly: /* 2011 website revamp */

2011-03-29T22:19:17Z

2011 website revamp

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	In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)		In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)

	Professor Stephen Jacobs of RIT is working with us through two of his students, Mike Devine and JT Mengel, to revamp our website. They travelled to New York on March 18, 2011, and spent the day in a workshop with Christian Marc Schmidt. Snapshots of that day's whiteboards are here: [[Media:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg]] and here: [[Media:~~NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1~~.jpg]]; first version of overview of the new website's sections is here: [[Media:Sugarlabs_workshop_20110318.pdf]]		Professor Stephen Jacobs of RIT is working with us through two of his students, Mike Devine and JT Mengel, to revamp our website. They travelled to New York on March 18, 2011, and spent the day in a workshop with Christian Marc Schmidt. Snapshots of that day's whiteboards are here: [[Media:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg]] and here: [[Media:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard2.jpg]]; first version of overview of the new website's sections is here: [[Media:Sugarlabs_workshop_20110318.pdf]]

SeanDaly: /* 2011 website revamp */

2011-03-29T22:18:46Z

2011 website revamp

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	In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)		In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)

	Professor Jacobs of RIT is working with us through two of his students, Mike Devine and JT Mengel, to revamp our website. They travelled to New York on March 18, 2011, and spent the day in a workshop with Christian Marc Schmidt. Snapshots of that day's whiteboards are here: [[Media:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg]] and here: [[Media:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg]]; first version of overview of the new website's sections is here: [[Media:Sugarlabs_workshop_20110318.pdf]]		Professor Stephen Jacobs of RIT is working with us through two of his students, Mike Devine and JT Mengel, to revamp our website. They travelled to New York on March 18, 2011, and spent the day in a workshop with Christian Marc Schmidt. Snapshots of that day's whiteboards are here: [[Media:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg]] and here: [[Media:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg]]; first version of overview of the new website's sections is here: [[Media:Sugarlabs_workshop_20110318.pdf]]

SeanDaly: /* Website 2 */

2011-03-29T21:42:12Z

Website 2

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	In the beginning, the Sugar Labs wiki was the homepage. In the spring of 2009, we prepared a small static HTML intro section to give a high-level overview of the project useful for teachers, parents, and journalists and which would direct people to appropriate areas of the wiki and other sites such as the Activities Library.		In the beginning, the Sugar Labs wiki was the homepage. In the spring of 2009, we prepared a small static HTML intro section to give a high-level overview of the project useful for teachers, parents, and journalists and which would direct people to appropriate areas of the wiki and other sites such as the Activities Library.

	==~~Website 2~~==		==2011 website revamp==
	In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)		In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)

SeanDaly: /* Website 2 */

2011-03-29T21:32:34Z

Website 2

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	==Website 2==		==Website 2==
	In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)		In late 2010 and early 2011, agreement[http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01294.html] was reached to revamp the www.sugarlabs.org website. The MIT Sloan MarketLab students' work has stimulated important reconsideration of the messages we want to project on this public site. (See [[Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study]] and March 2011 [[Marketing_Team/Meetings\|marketing meetings]].)

			Professor Jacobs of RIT is working with us through two of his students, Mike Devine and JT Mengel, to revamp our website. They travelled to New York on March 18, 2011, and spent the day in a workshop with Christian Marc Schmidt. Snapshots of that day's whiteboards are here: [[Media:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg]] and here: [[Media:NYC_2011March18_website_revamp_workshop_whiteboard1.jpg]]; first version of overview of the new website's sections is here: [[Media:Sugarlabs_workshop_20110318.pdf]]




	The sections below are a place to explore and summarize ideas collected from our community on how best to market Sugar Labs through a web site for our primary target market, teachers.		The sections below are a place to explore and summarize ideas collected from our community on how best to market Sugar Labs through a web site for our primary target market, teachers.