For the last couple of weeks we have been talking about establishing Local Sugar Labs. Most of the conversations have been with individual groups that are interested in establishing Local Labs (and the infrastructure team.)
The overriding theme of the conversations has been autonomy. The Local Labs are interested in building on top of the Sugar product and brand to provide solutions that are tailored to local cultural and environmental needs. At this point we have about thirty groups that have expressed interest in setting up local labs. These groups vary from individuals interesting in deploying Sugar, to Ministers of Education interested is developing Sugar for their nations, to Universities interested in supporting the Sugar Labs mission. >From an organizational standpoint Local Labs are pretty straight forward. As long as they adopt the Sugar Labs mission or a subset of the mission, they become part of Sugar Labs. At this point we can't offer local labs very much; a wiki at country.sugarlabs.org, a mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and email addresses at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and some very sparse guidelines for how to start and organize a Local Lab at http://sugarlabs.org/go/Regional_Sugar_Labs . Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero from Colombia is working with Bernie and Ivan to sort out and test the Infrastructure issues. If you are interested in setting up a Local Lab please add your contact information to the table at http://sugarlabs.org/go/Regional_Sugar_Labs/Contacts . As a starting point a Local Lab will cover a entire country (or state in a large country). thanks david _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
