Re: [sugar] Sugar Labs introduction

2008-12-03 Thread Sebastian Silva
(...) a Constitution and a Social Contract (our equivalent: Governance and Principles). So we should now agree on Principles and Goals. Those are pretty clear in http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs In this spirit I'd like to propose to move most of [[Sugar_Labs]] to [[Principles]] or

Re: [sugar] Sugar Labs introduction

2008-12-02 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Sebastian Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I realize I should have jumped into this discussion earlier. Please excuse me, I've just put myself thru an intense matrixesque self-learning weeks around learning communities, communities of practice, community

Re: [sugar] Sugar Labs introduction

2008-12-02 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
snip David Farning wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Sebastian Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My research question has been ¿how to jumpstart an ecosystem? Hernan Pachas from the ministry, and I offer to organize volunteers for support and training, etc. At the time, they had

Re: [sugar] Sugar Labs introduction

2008-12-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
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,

Re: [sugar] Sugar Labs introduction

2008-12-02 Thread Sebastian Silva
Over the next several months and years a set of best pratices, adjusted for cultural differences, will develop. Yama calls community building an art, precisely because it doesn't seem to fit into how-to manual models. Maybe people who get communities running don't read manuals, don't write

Re: [sugar] Sugar Labs introduction

2008-12-01 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hello, I realize I should have jumped into this discussion earlier. Please excuse me, I've just put myself thru an intense matrixesque self-learning weeks around learning communities, communities of practice, community learning, critical pedagogy, radical pedagogy, network logics (economies,

Re: [sugar] Sugar Labs introduction

2008-12-01 Thread Sebastian Silva
Oh, also found this to be relevant: http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/etcetera/selflearning.htm http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/book/internet/lamoreaux1.htm http://alcob.com/new/alcom_alcob/alcom_alcob_disp.html Cheers! Sebastian 2008/12/1 Sebastian Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [sugar] Sugar Labs introduction

2008-11-28 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
oh yes, totally. Neal Scoggin was all for a certification program. OLE had a similar view about local concerns doing local things. This is particularly liffe-and-death in places where American-organization presence is not wholly welcome, and where alternate sources of funding might favor

Re: [sugar] Sugar Labs introduction

2008-11-28 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hello Yama, David all. Some thoughts, It's definitely really important to have an official certification or support from SugarLabs international because as you now in our countries it's really difficult to get moving without a paper that says so.. For example here in Colombia, OLPC/Sugar