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communities need sunlight, water and modern tools; a majestic forest | communities need sunlight, water and modern tools; a majestic forest | ||
will come. Organized Community Mentoring within OLPC Contributors | will come. Organized Community Mentoring within OLPC Contributors | ||
Program (which I overhauled | Program (which I overhauled [in 2009] thanks to a dedicated | ||
team of volunteers) has proved instrumental to this end. | team of volunteers) has proved instrumental to this end. | ||
* Build Places for Teachers: Techie <i>and</i> [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Vung_Vieng_Fishing_Vietnam Non-Techie] | * Build Places for Teachers: Techie <i>and</i> [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Vung_Vieng_Fishing_Vietnam Non-Techie] | ||
Vividly illustrating how learning with Sugar might make their jobs | Vividly illustrating how learning with Sugar might make their jobs | ||
easier, building lifelong [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage Bricolage] | easier, building lifelong [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage Bricolage] dreams in their kids, eg: | ||
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources | |||
I will work with the Red Hat-inspired http://teachingopensource.org | I will work with the Red Hat-inspired http://teachingopensource.org | ||
initiative to match techie teachers with non-techie teachers to establish | initiative (join me for [http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TOSS09 Toronto's Summit Oct 29-30]) to match techie | ||
teachers with non-techie teachers to establish this critical social fabric. | |||
Building a movement around diverse Grassroots Innovation means learning | |||
from our failures. While I prefer the word Adoption to Deployment, | |||
XO/Sugar supporters spontaneously came together with me Sept 6-11 [2009, among others] | |||
in Washington DC (with zero funding) to prove [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs This Can Work!] | |||
REAFFIRMED MORE EXPLICITLY FOR 2010-2011: | |||
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-September/011662.html | |||
* Bring Budgetary Authority to Sugar Labs from OLPC, and Others | * Bring Budgetary Authority to Sugar Labs from OLPC, and Others | ||
Our business is kids but our management must be adult if scalability is | Our business is kids but our management must be adult if scalability is | ||
to be realized. Credibility does not come overnight, and is even | to be realized. Credibility does not come overnight, and is even | ||
harder to establish in the funding battles of the non-profit world -- | harder to establish in the funding battles of the non-profit world-- | ||
but the time is now... | but the time is now... | ||
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day, driven by more quiet consciences than will ever send us email. | day, driven by more quiet consciences than will ever send us email. | ||
* Cross- | * Cross-fertilize Sugar/OLPC Local Labs | ||
Gratuitous travel exhausts our earth's vanishing resources. But I | Gratuitous travel exhausts our earth's vanishing resources. But I | ||
paid for several trips around North America and Europe over the | paid for several trips around North America and Europe over the | ||
past | past [3] years for a reason -- to lay these seeds. Now we can move | ||
our community-building beyond cultivating hobbyists into a learning | our community-building beyond cultivating hobbyists into a learning | ||
organization, willing to both negotiate large contracts and | organization, willing to both negotiate large contracts and | ||
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perfect example: building Sugar/XO synergies with deployment | perfect example: building Sugar/XO synergies with deployment | ||
expertise, physical XO libraries, a grassroots repair shop, monthly | expertise, physical XO libraries, a grassroots repair shop, monthly | ||
talks and a sophisticated network of nearby computer | talks and a sophisticated network of nearby computer clubhouses. | ||
Similarly, I | Similarly, I [worked] hard with [http://olpclearningclub.org Mike Lee] to seed a multitalented | ||
Sugar/OLPC group | Sugar/OLPC group in NY City [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_New_York going strong for a year now] if | ||
you can hopefully join! EG. The [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations volunteer repair centers] | you can hopefully join! EG. The [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations volunteer repair centers] | ||
I coordinate worldwide for OLPC can now grow into a much stronger | I coordinate worldwide for OLPC can now grow into a much stronger | ||
network with proper Care And Feeding. | network of networks with proper Care And Feeding. | ||
* Now is the time to build a Broad-Based 21st Century Learning Movement | * Now is the time to build a Broad-Based 21st Century Learning Movement | ||
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the coming decade, open to all meaningful partnerships, while always | the coming decade, open to all meaningful partnerships, while always | ||
protecting our organic grassroots. This will not be easy, but the | protecting our organic grassroots. This will not be easy, but the | ||
lifelong friends I've made over the last | lifelong friends I've made over the last [3 years] in the OLPC/Sugar | ||
community | community makes this possible. Kids need healthy families to | ||
explore their worlds, not tabloid divorces, to advocate for | explore their worlds, not tabloid divorces, to advocate for | ||
1 billion small-but-growing brains on this planet. Sugar Labs and | 1 billion small-but-growing brains on this planet. Sugar Labs and | ||
OLPC owe it to the world's children to similarly mature into | OLPC owe it to the world's children to similarly mature into | ||
responsible, playful, lifelong parents! Even if not <i>always</i> loved :) | responsible, playful, lifelong parents! Even if not <i>always</i> loved :) | ||