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'''Welcome to the Local Sugar Labs project.'''
'''Welcome to the Local Sugar Labs Project.'''
A local Sugar Lab would:
A local Sugar Lab would:
* Create a local community devoted to the Sugar Labs principles, making Sugar more open and sustainable
* Create a local community devoted to the Sugar Labs principles, making Sugar more open and sustainable
* Provide for communication,between the local communities and the global Sugar Labs community
* Provide for communication,between the local communities and the global Sugar Labs community
* Develop Local contents and software that can be used not only for local purposes but also for the overall community,
A distributed project—we chose to name Sugar Labs, plural deliberately—where there is a local sense of ownership and associated entrepreneurship feels like the right course for us as an organization. Sugar Labs "central" is the community itself, which would be responsible for setting clear goals and maintaining any necessary infrastructure needed by the project as a whole, while the regional labs would use the own means to make Sugar relevant to their local communities. But what is the "business model" for a successful Sugar Lab? It seems that some necessary conditions for success would be:
A distributed project—we chose to name Sugar Labs, plural deliberately—where there is a local sense of ownership and associated entrepreneurship feels like the right course for us as an organization. Sugar Labs "central" is the community itself, which would be responsible for setting clear goals and maintaining any necessary infrastructure needed by the project as a whole, while the regional labs would use the own means to make Sugar relevant to their local communities. But what is the "business model" for a successful Sugar Lab? It seems that some necessary conditions for success would be:
* A university connection as a local human resource
* A university connection as a local human resource.
* A local pilot user group to learn from
* A local pilot user group to learn from
* A local passion or sub-goal that provides a rational for the work.
* A local passion or sub-goal that provides a rational for the work.