Kindling Discoveries Series

As part of our ongoing effort to learn best practices, and develop our community capacity, eKindling will be sponsoring a series of open talks on themes pertaining to OLPC deployment and content development. By learning from the wealth of experience of other organizations throughout the globe, we will be better positioned to deploy programs and develop relevant content for the benefit of children across the Philippines. Engage, ask questions, and learn as we bring you the innovators and changemakers of the OLPC realm. - eKindling Team

Speaker Schedule

Bryan Berry

When: July 24, 2009, 11am (Manila Time)
Where: Connect to irc.freenode.net and join #sugar-meeting

The first talk of the series will focus on Bryan Berry's experience with OLE Nepal and his views on the role of communities. Bryan Berry is currently the Technology Director of OLE Nepal, and was a volunteer community organizer at One Laptop Per Child. To date, OLE Nepal has deployed nearly 1800 laptops in 26 schools in 6 districts across Nepal.

Guiding Questions:

1. How do you define a community?
2. What role did the community play in identifying leaders and formalizing a formal organization?
3. What role did the community play in OLPC deployments?
4. What role did the community play in content developments?
5. In the experience of OLE Nepal and unrelated to OLPC deployment and content development, how else have the community added value?
6. What are your strategies for growing the community and its capacity?
7. If any, what are the limitations and pitfalls of a community-driven organizations?
8. Add your question here

Connection information

This is an IRC (internet relay chat) channel; if you are new to IRC, you can use Mibbit which is an in-browser client. Set the "IRC:" (server) box to Freenode, the "Nick:" to whatever name you want to be known by, and the "Channel:" to #sugar-meeting as shown, then click "Go." You should be placed into chat. If you have issues, please contact Mchua (mel at laptop dot org).