[Grassroots-l] Your voice in EU website and OLPC

[jaume]

Hi all,
looks like olpc europe model its been discussed,... that's very
positive, imho.

Two keypoints that I really like from OLPC project are:
- Lot of people right now in the project, come from other international
and political projects (debian, indymedia, social wifies, hack labs,...)
- OLPC is a project for the whole society.

The first point makes me feel sure that _we_ will be able to find ways
to organize and go ahead.
And the second point, makes this project different from the ones I
mentioned before, and probably is the main challenge: be able to
communicate with everybody, and be able to invite everybody as a
grassroots based community.

So, I don't know what will be olpc europe in the future, but right now,
in general, I agree with the Aaron opinion.
We have to avoid creating structures before they are needed.

At the same time, I'm not such afraid right now to someone is building
bureaucratic  structures: who wants them? wha we need them for?

The way we know how to use the communication tools, and the culture of
horizontal networks is, probably, the best way we can follow.
 
(hope that helps to build)
jaume

On dl, 2008-02-25 at 10:07 +0100, Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> 
> > OK, I'll try to explain. Here's my view:
> > at the given website EU citizens can give their opinion about  
> > different topics.
> > I don't know how popular is the website but it's supposed to reach  
> > broader
> > audience. We can use this to reach to these people and ask them  
> > about OLPC.
> 
> 
> 
> the nice thing about OLPC is that it is so grassroots.
> 
> You don't NEED to ask anybody if they think it is good if you program  
> some activity for the XO or the asus EeePC or the classmate.
> It is ALL about open sourcing education and educational tools.
> 
> So... I STILL don't understand why you want to ask anybody if they  
> think it is cool
> 
> Just CREATE nice things. Then present them. But please please please  
> (!!!) don't talk and talk and blabla about
> what would be good as an OLPC_Europe thing. Just do things on your  
> own and present it to everybody out there.
> That is the most effective way. Like that we 1) don't need any big  
> control structures (like an "OLPC_Europe parliament")
> 2) nor the nasty side effects of politics.
> 
> 
> --> DON't ASK, DON'T DO POLITICS , JUST DO AND CREATE AND PROPOSE  
> GOOD SOLUTIONS WHICH WORK.
> 
> 
> This is my very strong opinion.
> If OLPC_Europe turns into some politics game, I will be out of it.
> 
> a.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Grassroots mailing list
> Grassroots at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots