On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <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 their hands full >>> LiveCD in spanish for download. Alas, as yama puts it, I was "nobody", >>> so we were left out of helping out in the deployment and were pointed >>> to "boring" (but important) stuff like translating the wiki. This was >>> very frustrating and I will not make this mistake again. This is not >>> to say we wont translate - its part of our mission too. >>> > > Standard procedure seems to be everywhere point volunteers to work no one > wants (like cleaning up the mess, etc) > > lesson for us: See volunteers differently, point them to "fun stuff". > > In successful volunteer-dependent organizations (I've been with Scouting and > YMCA for several generations), you choose your volunteer coordinator as > carefully as you choose your CEO, and pay him better than pretty much anyone > else - often he is the only one who actually gets paid...
Hmmm. Maybe this is why we asked Yama to take a leadership role in establishing Local Labs:) I am pretty good at organization stuff. But, I realize that I suck at group community stuff. So, if you find anyone interested in being the face of the community, please let me know! david >>> Now back to the point, Regional SugarLabs. I investigated the Ubuntu >>> LoCoTeam "model" if there is such a thing. I found none, sorry to say, >>> only a Howto describing very crude "how to run a team" and "what a >>> team can do". It does not go into the relation to the mission a local >>> >> >> There is nothing in the LoCo team documentation about how to run a >> successful Local Lab. Because, no one know how yet:) It is still an >> unsolved problem. Hence, my approach to Local Labs is to make them as >> autonomous as possible. 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 manuals? different skill sets? Or > maybe it is a good thing, that because communities are organic things they > can be dealt with only by organic things, not by something inherently dead, > as a manual? > > Best-practices list is a good start. I'll check with my pals at YMCA, ACA, > Scouts > >>> Regional SugarLabs should be highly autonomous, carry their own >>> identity and mission (which should significantly overlap or include >>> central sugarlabs's mission). They should agree on similar set of >>> values / principles and also joint set of goals. We just want to be >>> "community centers", nodes in a network, not "Regional Offices". >>> Basically this means recognition as local partners and ability to >>> collect donations for our efforts. The reason for this perhaps is >>> obvious: ¿How are we to expect peer recognition if our own structure >>> is vertical? >>> >> >> Yes, I agree and am pushing for autonomy! My goal is for Local Labs >> to become the key component of Sugar Labs. Once we get the initial >> Local Labs setup. I am guessing that the Local Labs will have 10 >> times as many activate participants as the upstream Sugar Labs. >> > > +1 > > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
