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=== Support-gang ===
== OLPC communities ==
Anecdote : support-gang...
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Origins : "we just need that smart-alec in the schoolyard who helps everyone else" --cjb
>>> broader FOSS
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: December 19th -- community meeting, GDK, Holt, SJ, CJB, Kim, Walter, JG.


---- (intro m)
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* Pre-meetings, then weekly Sunday meetings started Christmas week.
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* In fact, @ OLPC many people were skeptical that this would be a good idea, despite our broad support from foss
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*: KQ -- do you know what it will take to manage them?


=== FSW FTW ===
=== FSW FTW ===
free software movement : GNU v OS : debian v. ubuntu? too specific.
free software movement : GNU v OS : debian v. ubuntu? too specific.
: broad sense of how a movement starts, what the necc. ingredients are, where people & projects gather
: broad sense of how a movement starts, what the necc. ingredients are, where people & projects gather
: ability to communicate, collaborate, share ; permission to be bold, licenses, freedom to work. empowerment, autonomy?, desire not to be a tool of some other vision
: ability to communicate, collaborate, share. See principles/lessons.
: it helps to have a goal, a vision of what is desired, what others are working towards
: it all starts with a shared goal and vision


Ubuntu exs : forums, locos.


=== WP ===
=== Wikipedia ===
origins, concept & multilingual community ---> self-organization
es:wp, wikislices, wikireaders
: independent community dev in different countries --> WM Argentina, Wikimania in B.Aires
: independent community dev in different countries
: community-run events (wikimanias, Wikipedia University)
: locally-driven chapter development [too specific : anyone who feels they are an independent group can form]

=== principles, lessons ===
: recognition.
: permission to be bold, licenses, freedom to work. empowerment, autonomy?, desire not to be a tool of some other vision.
:: crowding out : separate communities of practice, chilling effects? [not presented negatively]
: repeating: have a goal, a utopian/ideal vision of what is desired, what others are working towards

== OLPC communities ==
starting with a simple ideal : olpc pre-g1g1 --- 1000x of people contributing to a project they thought they would never benefit from. gives one faith in people.

=== Software & tools ===
OS, sugar : fedora, debian, openwrt
Activities, git committers : ?
Trac users :
User communities (they know what they want better than groups of experts) :

---- ( intro:s )

=== Local chapters & communication ===
Wiki editors
L10n.
Blogs, news sources
Countries & regions

=== Support-gang ===
⚫
Origins : "we just need that smart-alec in the schoolyard who helps everyone else" --cjb
⚫
: December 19th -- community meeting, GDK, Holt, SJ, CJB, Kim, Walter, JG.

⚫
* Pre-meetings, then weekly Sunday meetings started Christmas week.
⚫
* In fact, @ OLPC many people were skeptical that this would be a good idea, despite our broad support from foss
⚫
*: KQ -- do you know what it will take to manage them?


Initially US, now extending to L. America, with F.Libre in Peru and olpc-sur, attracting more es-speakers : again, many without their own XO (and some not wanting one)




Revision as of 04:49, 23 May 2008

OLPC communities

Anecdote : support-gang... 

 >>>  broader FOSS

(intro m)

FSW FTW

free software movement : GNU v OS : debian v. ubuntu? too specific.

broad sense of how a movement starts, what the necc. ingredients are, where people & projects gather
ability to communicate, collaborate, share. See principles/lessons.
it all starts with a shared goal and vision

Ubuntu exs : forums, locos.

Wikipedia

origins, concept & multilingual community ---> self-organization

independent community dev in different countries
community-run events (wikimanias, Wikipedia University)
locally-driven chapter development [too specific : anyone who feels they are an independent group can form]

principles, lessons

recognition.
permission to be bold, licenses, freedom to work. empowerment, autonomy?, desire not to be a tool of some other vision.
crowding out : separate communities of practice, chilling effects? [not presented negatively]
repeating: have a goal, a utopian/ideal vision of what is desired, what others are working towards


OLPC communities

starting with a simple ideal : olpc pre-g1g1 --- 1000x of people contributing to a project they thought they would never benefit from. gives one faith in people.

Software & tools

OS, sugar : fedora, debian, openwrt
Activities, git committers : ?
Trac users : 
User communities (they know what they want better than groups of experts) :

( intro:s )

Local chapters & communication

Wiki editors
L10n.
Blogs, news sources
Countries & regions

Support-gang

Origins : "we just need that smart-alec in the schoolyard who helps everyone else" --cjb

December 19th -- community meeting, GDK, Holt, SJ, CJB, Kim, Walter, JG.
  • Pre-meetings, then weekly Sunday meetings started Christmas week.
  • In fact, @ OLPC many people were skeptical that this would be a good idea, despite our broad support from foss
    KQ -- do you know what it will take to manage them?

Initially US, now extending to L. America, with F.Libre in Peru and olpc-sur, attracting more es-speakers : again, many without their own XO (and some not wanting one)


notes

BMH - implementation of microgobby in js, for obby-wiki : frontend for mwiki for real-time collab. but see: js has contained networking, no socket reps.

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