-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Aaron Kaplan wrote: > Hi! > > With all the discussion of olpc europe, how groups should get > organized etc.... here is something to read and ponder about. > We met in person for dinner (thx Helga!) and had to discuss a few > things face to face. > Amongst them the argument between me and Chris about something called > olpc_europe which is not even clearly defined yet, but which was > already announced prematurely on heise.de (biggest IT related news > source in all german speaking countries). > > So the whole group came together and he had this consensus finding > process. > In the end we arrived at the following... (interesting to read!) > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Simon Dorner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: March 4, 2008 6:58:29 PM GMT+01:00 >> To: olpc intern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [Olpcaustria-intern] What we talked about last week... >> >> Hi everyone! >> >> So this is what i condensed out of our discussion last week: >> >> --------------------------------- >> >> As some of you might have noticed we at OLPC Austria had a quite >> heated discussion about OLPC Europe last week. Eventually the debate >> turned out to be worthwhile and we kind of reached a consensus on >> what we suggest for OLPC Europe. I agreed to sum up our current >> thinking and send it out like this. >> >> We think that OLPC Europe is moving a bit too fast and it needs time >> to evolve more out of a number of strong local groups. The focus >> should be to build and support those local groups first. Therefore we >> suggest that for the time being OLPC Europe should not yet be a fully >> defined and structured legal entity but rather a simple web platform >> for people to get information about what's happening in their and >> other countries. There are two concrete things that we suggest: >> >> 1: Let's create an OLPC Europe web site that consists of an >> aggregated blog of all the individual European groups. Every group >> that wants to join sets up a simple blog and all their news gets >> added to the main blog via RSS. That would be a great resource for >> everyone and is enough for now.
How about different languages? Is that a concern or not? Having 10 (or more) different languages on one website makes it a bit unreadable. I think it would be nice to tag entries with the country name so people can filter out the ones they can't read. Thanks, Alexander. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH0Qldhmd3WOiFct4RCvpWAJwMt/5o+xEd9O2VwJqcaWFXQRNiigCeLxjp 9OSSeP0a+wRdHhp7Vl5b688= =x3MM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
