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As a SLOB, I will work to grow our community and to raise awareness of Sugar.
As a SLOB, I will work to grow our community and to raise awareness of Sugar.
=Adam Holt=
As its 10-year anniversary quickly approaches, Sugar Labs needs to do more than survive as a fragile vessel for One Laptop per Child's many still unmet dreams.
Sugar Labs can now begin standing up conscientiously in new areas, building on real-world deliverables <i>like</i> Sugarizer 0.9 on Internet-in-a-Box (a.k.a. the OLPC School Server Community Edition, http://schoolserver.org) now in use in a very rapidly growing number of countries where the XO laptop never quite took root:
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/speakers/adam-holt<br>
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/presentations/internet-box
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Google Code-in (GCI) are an amazingly powerful start to bring us together constructing collaboratively + openly + coherently -- but these are <i>not</i> the only revenue/volunteer streams Sugar Labs and the Sugar Movement can bank on during its second decade!
All such strategic progress <i>is</i> beginning to take shape for an entirely new generation of DIY Sugar culture. But it is thanks to an underlying non-chaotic legal and accounting strategy with the Software Freedom Conservancy that all this is possible.
I have worked for 10 years with Sugar Labs (originally as OLPC's Community Support Manager) and then as Sugar Labs' liaison/representative to the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) for 2 years now to solidify a foundation here. When emotions inevitably take hold on legal and financial issues, it is imperative that we also have a steady hand, to work with SFC Executive Director Karen Sandler and her team moving us all forward methodically. I will continue this difficult but very necessary work if re-elected -- strengthening our participatory community architecture, operationalizing an evermore legit and balanced footing -- inclusive of Sugar Labs' contributors, educators and hackers <b>all</b>.
<i>Let's now step forward together, Sugar's diverse but sincere community, to build upon this base for an entirely new decade of Rapidly Internationalizing Opportunities Now.</i>