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* Provide for communication,between the local communities and the global Sugar Labs community
 
* Provide for communication,between the local communities and the global Sugar Labs community
 
* Develop Local content and software that can be used not only for local purposes but also for the overall community
 
* Develop Local content and software that can be used not only for local purposes but also for the overall community
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* Host, co-host or partner in the organization of conferences, workshops, talks and meetings related to the use or development of Sugar,
    
A distributed project—we chose to name Sugar Labs, plural deliberately—where there is a local sense of ownership and associated entrepreneurship feels like the right course for us as an organization. Sugar Labs "central" is the community itself, which would be responsible for setting clear goals and maintaining any necessary infrastructure needed by the project as a whole, while the regional labs would use the own means to make Sugar relevant to their local communities. But what is the "business model" for a successful Sugar Lab? It seems that some necessary conditions for success would be:
 
A distributed project—we chose to name Sugar Labs, plural deliberately—where there is a local sense of ownership and associated entrepreneurship feels like the right course for us as an organization. Sugar Labs "central" is the community itself, which would be responsible for setting clear goals and maintaining any necessary infrastructure needed by the project as a whole, while the regional labs would use the own means to make Sugar relevant to their local communities. But what is the "business model" for a successful Sugar Lab? It seems that some necessary conditions for success would be: