Goals/2018 Submissions

Internal Organizational Improvements

• Fully staff all boards, offices, and committees
• Improve trust within Oversight Board by meeting face to face, by teleconference, and by enabling and guaranteeing the right to private deliberation by the board
• Improve communication within and across SLOB and Community.

Operational

• Maintain Sugar desktop and core activity set for both major Linux distributions, Fedora and Debian
• Maintainable mechanism for handling activities (port to new ASLO)
• Maintain infrastructure services for contributors; such as Wiki, web site, GitHub organisation, IRC channel, and shell server.
• Migrate all core Sugar Labs code to Python3
• Improve Migration of Wiki to git project
• Develop improved version of sugarize ;(add icons to sugar desktop that start other fedora applications)

  ie: FMW; hexchat
  http://people.sugarlabs.org/tgilliard/sugarize/wiki-sugarize.txt
  http://people.sugarlabs.org/tgilliard/sugarize/

Outreach

• Establish connection with Sugar Labs deployments
• Introduce Music or Turtle Blocks programmes in India, Nigeria, and Japan
• Outreach to Maker community
• Showcase Schools
• Devise a means to compensate, and thus incentivize developers

Community Building

• Maintain an active community of learners creating pedagogic contents for Sugar/Sugarizer
• Maintain an active community of developers for Sugar/Sugarizer
• Define community as it pertains to our expectation in Sugar Labs
• Alignment of Sugar Labs with educational institutions. Identify the gaps and build approaches to fill those gaps.

Content Development

• Produce cross-platform collections of Sugar Activities
• Develop a better Activity for creating Activities, with features from Bret Victor's essays, such as https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen
• Pre-prepared (language and keyboard layout) Sugar VMs
• A Possible Stable version for Sugar Desktop Outside Linux (Mac OSX / Windows)
• Teachers Guide for Sugar/Sugarizer (make Sugar easier to use)
• Explore Changing UI/UX layout of Sugar and working on colors
• Develop guides describing how Sugar can support Common Criteria and other semi-mandated teaching curriculums
• Student Collaboration Integrating a means for students or children to work together in accomplishing a goals

Future-Looking

• Work on describing a vision for Sugar Labs
• Revisit original Sugar design goals and see if any are able move forward
• A rubric for in-person events for collaboration and advocacy This would act like a "formula" for organizing effective "sugarcamps"
• A portfolio approach to what a potential consumer of Sugar may look for
• Competitive & SWOT analyses of Sugar (Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats)

Uncategorized

• Sexual education for rural girls
• Create an AI that teaches everyone