Grassroots bootcamp/Results

Monday

Transcript

See the /monday transcript from the #olpc-groups IRC channel, where we tried to log as much as possible of the conversations that went on. Bjordan also made a File:OLPC Grassroots Bootcamp.mm of the proceedings, and Andreatl, Nlee, and Ccarrick collaboratively took meeting notes.

Undocumented discussions

• Discussed supporting the pilot in New Haven, CT.

Output

• Grassroots problems - a (growing) list of things we're trying to work through
• How To Run A Jam - redone by Bjordan and Mchua
• Volunteering process - created by Nlee and Ccarrick
• Content workflow - revised by SethWoodworth
• University program - revised by Andreatl
• Community ambassador - revised by Rabi, Jonathan, Thulani

Feedback

Add your thoughts here!

• The transcripts are messy - it's pretty labor intensive to clean them up, though. (Speaking from 6 months of experience cleaning up pretty much every single support-gang transcript...) Is there a way we can take cleaner, more useful notes? Can people give us feedback on how to make these notes more legible, and what gaps we have to fill in, before our memories of the occasion fade? Mchua 23:31, 9 June 2008 (EDT)
• Having OLPC staff come in and join us for lunch (pizza in exchange for adding bugs to the Grassroots problems board) was awesome. We should do that again. Mchua 23:31, 9 June 2008 (EDT)

Recap email

sent to grassroots, olpc-open'

Representatives from 5 continents convened at the grassroots bootcamp (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp) at 1cc today - the first day of a 4-day event - to collaborate on community infrastructures, discuss volunteer support, and eat pizza, occasionally with artichokes on top.

Highlights include Christoph Derndorfer (OLPC Austria) leading a brainstorm on the most pressing grassroots community facilitation problems that should be solved, and Tim Anderson from World Computer Exchange discussing their volunteer-based international deployment model. Today's grassroots bootcamp results, including full transcripts of discussions (full of typos, but mostly there!) and a "bug list" of global grassroots community program that should get solved at...

*drumroll...fanfare... curtain lift!*

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Results#Monday

How you can help:

* Add to our community bug list, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_problems - we'll be working our way through that list this week.
* Comment or contribute to any of the things on the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Results page.
* Give feedback - help us generalize this into a redeployable event so that people can run bootcamps in their own locales - in other words, "are you interested in running a bootcamp at your location?" Join the discussion at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Grassroots_bootcamp#How_can_this_be_generalized.3F

All errors/emissions/typos in these notes are almost certainly my fault (though I hope others will continue to spell me off in transcribing, because my hands are about to fall off). Please correct/clarify if you see an occasion to improve any of these notes.

Cheers!

-Mel Chua
written at the grassroots bootcamp Monday postmortem - half of us are still here working.

Tuesday

Transcript

See the /tuesday transcript from the #olpc-groups IRC channel, where we tried to log as much as possible of the conversations that went on.

Feedback

Add your thoughts here!

Recap email

sent to grassroots, olpc-open'