>> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> One thing that we need to see is about giving legitimacy to volunteers in >>> countries where only if you have an "official" piece of paper you are to be >>> taken into account. Right now I have an active, enthusiastic, capable >>> volunteer in Uruguay who is not taken into account by higher authorities >>> because he basically is "nobody".
It is not necessary to be official to do good work. I am helping two students at Olin College of Engineering to organize a newsletter around two topics: What is really going on at OLPC? (the hard question) and How can I join in? (where I have a number of ideas to share, and others have many more). We know that we can use any set of skills and knowledge to do something that the children need, since they need to know about absolutely everything. So we can get anybody started on real work, connect them with the community, and so on. Those who want to become "official" within their country in order to work with other official groups should contact Earth Treasury (me) and Open Learning Exchange at http://ole.org/. We can work out a plan for a group of volunteers to do anything useful as part of a larger project to get XOs into schools, create teacher training materials and textbooks in local languages, and so on. >>> A Sugarlabs "credential" or some sort of accreditation? That, too. >>> Yama -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar