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Building a movement around diverse Grassroots Innovation means learning | Building a movement around diverse Grassroots Innovation means learning | ||
from our failures. While I prefer the word Adoption to Deployment, | from our failures. While I prefer the word Adoption to Deployment, | ||
XO/Sugar supporters spontaneously came together with me Sept 6-11 | 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!] | 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 | ||
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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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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 clubhouses. | 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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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 [3 years] in the OLPC/Sugar | 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 :) | ||