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(Thank you Lionel :) This document is a draft, and aspirational, so I've added back the XO-4 reference with some inline context.)
 
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''2016-04-20 The following is a DRAFT, that will be presented to the Sugar Labs Oversight Board at a regularly scheduled monthly meeting as a motion to approve it for the year. Your edits are welcome!''
 
  
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Sugar is high quality software for children to learn with, especially younger children.
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The following is a DRAFT, that will be presented to the Sugar Labs Oversight Board at a regularly scheduled monthly meeting as a motion to approve it for the year. Your edits are welcome!
  
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Sugar itself is a framework for programs called "Sugar Activities," which encourage learning through self-discovery. Collaboration, expression, and reflection are integrated into each Activity.
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Proposal 1:
  
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Every Activity respects every user's freedom to run, study, modify and redistribute it, governed by software licenses compatible with the GNU General Public License.
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“In 10 years or less, Sugar Labs is a solid global friendly libre software community where you can learn to design, develop, deploy and support high-quality self-discovery learning experiences and friendly collaboration environments among learners and makers of all continents, in all possible languages and all possible media of distribution."
  
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Our ultimate goal is for Sugar to be accessible to every child and every teacher in every school, all around the world, and for Sugar Labs to be a facilitator for knowledge exchange across all continents, especially knowledge that relates the software freedom movement to learning.
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Proposal 2:
  
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We grow our community to include users and contributors in all countries, in all languages, and in all cultures.
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[your proposal here...]
  
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We develop our software to run on every computer device, from desktops and laptops to tablets and smartphones, and to run in situations with local networks without direct internet connections.
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You may also enjoy related pages:
  
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Sugar began in 2006 as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Today it is vigorously developed by Sugar Labs, a volunteer-driven and non-profit organization.
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* [[2016 Goals]]
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* [[Mission proposal 2016]]
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* [[Vision_proposal_2016/Call_1]]
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* [[Vision_proposal_2016/Call_2]]
  
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(*Aspirational, pending us being able to offer XO-4s:* The machine we aspired to build at OLPC in 2006 is now available as the XO-4 laptop, and you can buy XO-4s from us pre-installed with the 2016 release of Sugar.)
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Sugar is high-quality software for learning, especially by younger children.
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Sugar is designed for use by people who do not yet have regular or reliable internet access.
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The Sugar Desktop runs on inexpensive desktop and laptop computers that have modest capacity, such as the XO-1 "$100 Laptop" developed by One Laptop per Child (OLPC).
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A web-based version is under development for tablets and phones, called Sugarizer.
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Sugar Activities are applications that run in Sugarizer or the Sugar Desktop.
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Sugar Activities encourage learning through self-discovery and encourage collaboration, expression, and reflection.
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Sugar realises the educational vision of Seymour Papert and Alan Kay by providing a low floor and no ceiling.
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Every Sugar Activity respects every user's freedom to run, study, modify and redistribute it using software licenses compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3 or later.
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Sugar development began in 2006 at OLPC, and in 2009 Sugar Labs was established in service to the Sugar community as a volunteer-led and non-profit project.
  
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If you contribute to Sugar and don't have the resources you need to have impact, we fund resources that accelerate our progress (laptops, travel bursaries, and more.)
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In 2016 the Sugar community is global, and we at Sugar Labs aspire to include users and contributors in all countries, all languages, and all cultures.
  
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We make things to think with. Join us.
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We facilitate knowledge and software sharing among all people; we relate the software freedom movement to education.  
  
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We provide plans for how to best use Sugar to improve learning, intended for individual parents and teachers all the way to national policy.
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We raise funds and use them to accelerate the progress of our Members, enabling them to access laptops, travel, and more.
  
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Our 2016 goals include
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We make things to think with.
  
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* successfully completing 6 GSOC projects
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Join us.
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* fully staffing all boards, offices and committees
 
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* making TARGET_AMOUNT releases of Sugar
 
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* porting TARGET_AMOUNT Activities to Sugarizer, a web-based version of Sugar
 
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* Allow running Sugar Activities outside Sugar (see email thread)
 
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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
 
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** Sugarizer becomes self-translatable, and via sugar-web thus make sugar desktop self-translatable.
 
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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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* 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]
 
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* cleaning up all sugar labs websites, starting with the wiki and issue tracker
 
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* liberate the "Learning To Change The World" text
 
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* offering batches of XO-4s at volumes of 20+ with 1+ school server units, so any classroom anywhere can become a Local Lab with almost "1 click" like convenience if they have $X to put down
 
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* your goal here!
 

Latest revision as of 09:59, 15 April 2017

The following is a DRAFT, that will be presented to the Sugar Labs Oversight Board at a regularly scheduled monthly meeting as a motion to approve it for the year. Your edits are welcome!

Proposal 1:

“In 10 years or less, Sugar Labs is a solid global friendly libre software community where you can learn to design, develop, deploy and support high-quality self-discovery learning experiences and friendly collaboration environments among learners and makers of all continents, in all possible languages and all possible media of distribution."

Proposal 2:

[your proposal here...]

You may also enjoy related pages:

Sugar is high-quality software for learning, especially by younger children.

Sugar is designed for use by people who do not yet have regular or reliable internet access.

The Sugar Desktop runs on inexpensive desktop and laptop computers that have modest capacity, such as the XO-1 "$100 Laptop" developed by One Laptop per Child (OLPC).

A web-based version is under development for tablets and phones, called Sugarizer.

Sugar Activities are applications that run in Sugarizer or the Sugar Desktop.

Sugar Activities encourage learning through self-discovery and encourage collaboration, expression, and reflection.

Sugar realises the educational vision of Seymour Papert and Alan Kay by providing a low floor and no ceiling.

Every Sugar Activity respects every user's freedom to run, study, modify and redistribute it using software licenses compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3 or later.

Sugar development began in 2006 at OLPC, and in 2009 Sugar Labs was established in service to the Sugar community as a volunteer-led and non-profit project.

In 2016 the Sugar community is global, and we at Sugar Labs aspire to include users and contributors in all countries, all languages, and all cultures.

We facilitate knowledge and software sharing among all people; we relate the software freedom movement to education.

We provide plans for how to best use Sugar to improve learning, intended for individual parents and teachers all the way to national policy.

We raise funds and use them to accelerate the progress of our Members, enabling them to access laptops, travel, and more.

We make things to think with.

Join us.

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