On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:36 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 .
Thanks, David, this is going to make a big difference. That's plenty to get started with. I have passed this to OneVillage Foundation Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. We will probably have some more countries to list soon. > 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). I did Ghana pro forma, and I have asked our country director Kafui Prebbie to do it properly. > thanks > david > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- 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 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
