Community facilitation

Summary

Create an organization (which we'll call "olpc friends," right now) as a non-profit, community driven/elected/managed body within which we have projects (such as potentially support-gang, and release management, deployments), community leaders, structures to make it easy for the community to participate/contribute to the OLPC mission.

The whole point of this project is to facilitate and support the community interested in helping drive the olpc vision, but whom don't fit into Sugar Labs. By being vendor independent and self-determined, we can also ensure a sustainable approach to the implementation and support of one laptop per child, without being bound to a single hardware or software supplier.

Structure

Largely self-determined and self-created, the fundamental unit of the community is self-governing grassroots project groups.

Conversations

A list of links to meeting notes, logs, and conversations around/about this topic.

• Deployment support meeting, 2009-01-20
• /2009-01-21

Creation process

What needs to happen in order for this to take shape? (Yes, these are still broad sketches, not yet concrete next steps.)

1. More conversations, more ideas - this kind of proposal is only as strong as the community that has created it. This is going to take a lot of patience, a lot of reaching out, and a lot of working together - and that's wonderful. We're all part of this community. We all own this idea together. We are trying to articulate who we are.
2. Eventually, we will want to create an interim community council with a clear goals and a clear vision, populated by reputable and trusted people from within the community, while we're working out the processes for future council appointments.
3. At the same time, we'll have to build the initial infrastructure (both people-based and server-hosting-based) to meet the goals we've come to a consensus on.
4. And simultaneously, we're going to have to build our public presence through advocacy and outreach.