Hi On 24 April 2016 at 21:44, Tony Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> The strategic need is to establish direct communication with folks at > these deployments to get first-hand information. This direct communication > can put the community in direct contact with the user community and help us > provide more relevant capabilities. > > I think this is going to be a deployment-by-deployment process. > I agree > [deployment ideas] > I added them to the Local Labs Contact page > The webpage is a good start ( > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs/Contacts). However, it is > connected to the local labs program. You may want to find out from Walter > about its current status. The idea died aborning because under our > agreement with the Conservancy, Sugar Labs was not permitted to establish > subsidiary groups. So I think the wiki effort should be independent of that > initiative. The Conservancy position sort of makes sense, but I understood that a "Local Lab" is just what Sugar Labs calls a user community, the same thing that OLPC called a "deployment" (which I think is a poor marketing term, since it has US-imperial/military overtones.) > We also need a format where we can gather significant information - > perhaps a link from this page to a page per deployment. Right; the https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs page has a directory like that. > The key in each case is to have a local contact (e.g. email address) where > we can get direct answers to questions as they come up and propose > capabilities which may be of help. Right; that's what I want to tabulate on the Contact page. > The questions we need answered go far beyond whether XOs are used inside a > classroom or elsewhere. For example, if users are allowed to take laptops > away from the institution, what has been the impact on wear and tare. If > users 'own' the laptop; how does the institution replace them for incoming > students. > How has the Uruguay Plan Ceibal impacted learning in later grades - e.g. > in readiness to use computers effectively in secondary school learning. The > list could go on. All good ideas, I put them into https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Local_Labs_Survey_2016 :) -- Cheers Dave
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