Goals/2018 Submissions

• Operational
  • Maintain in working order the Sugar desktop and a core set of Sugar activities against the two popular and always changing Linux distributions; Fedora and Debian.
  • Maintainable mechanism for handling activities (port to new ASLO and migration of relevant wiki pages to activity README.md files in activity git repo)
  • Maintain infrastructure services for contributors; such as Wiki, web site, GitHub organisation, IRC channel, and shell server.
  • Ensure all Python code is migrated to Python3
  • Improve Migration of Wiki to git project
  • A Possible Stable version for Sugar Desktop Outside Linux (Mac OSX / Windows)

• Outreach
  • Introduce a Music Blocks programme in India
  • Establish connection with Sugar Labs deployments
  • Turtle/Music Blocks workshops in Nigeria, India, and Japan
  • Outreach to Maker community

• Community Building
  • Maintain an active community of learners creating pedagogic contents for Sugar/Sugarizer
  • Maintain an active community of developers for Sugar/Sugarizer
  • Alignment of Sugar Labs with educational institutions. Identify the gaps and build approaches to fill those gaps.

• 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.
  • Devise a means to compensate, and thus incentivize, developers

• Future-Looking
  • Develop a better Activity for creating Activities, with features from Bret Victor's essays, such as https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen
  • Set up a matrix of VirtualBox prebuilt Sugar VMs, perhaps in partnership with Oracle
  • Teachers Guide for Sugar/Sugarizer (make Sugar easier to use)
  • Pre-preared (language and keyboard layout) Virtual Machines with Sugar
  • 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
  • Competitive & SWOT (Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats) analyses of Sugar
  • Integrating a means for students or children to work together in accomplishing a goals
  • 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
  • Work on describing a vision for Sugar Labs