Local Labs

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We would like to help local and regional groups establish Sugar Labs, whose mission would be to advance learning and the technical and pedagogical support around learning in specific locales. We are looking for input on how best to do this. Your input would be of great value to our efforts. Please join the discussion.

What would be the mission of a regional Sugar Lab? How would it differ from the global mission?

• The overall mission of sugar labs has to remain the same in a regional sugar labs, the changes are more related to the way that local organizations and people interact with a regional sugar labs, the regional sugar labs must be a way to foster, and hardening the sugar labs overall mission.

What would regional Sugar Labs like/need from the global Sugar Labs community?

• We can set up <your-region>.sugarlabs.org as a regional support organization under Sugar Labs.
• We can help provide you with infrastructure support such as a mailing list and a wiki.(personal mail addresses @region- sugarlabs.org?)
• What sort of financial help are you looking at? Sugar Labs should be able to help with grant writing, etc.

What are the next steps?

• Setting up
• Clarifying legal and financial concerns (locally)

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Good source of self sustaining revenue.

Cons

• Would SL directly engaging in work-for-hire cause a conflict of interest with our members and partners