[Grassroots-l] Weekend food for thought.

[Bastien]

Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> Unfortunately even after 6 years of studying French in school my
> understanding of the language is still pretty limited, but I *assume*
> what you're talking about is "Concours d'idées OLPC France"
> (http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Concours_d%27id%C3%A9es_OLPC_France),
> right?

Yes I do.

> If I understand it correctly the objectives are to:
>
> - improve initiatives to produce localized contents
> - attract people who are motivated to contribute new contents
> - make OLPC France more visible both within France and Europe

Well, there is really no big plan behind the contest, but the goals
above are accurate.  We are collecting ideas, promoting the best ones,
helping people to focus on them.  This is also a good opportunity for us
at OLPC France to get organized while opening up to the "external world"
(i.e. other associations, etc.)

We are slowly setting up our structure so that it is flexible and
reactive enough to turn good will of newcomers into efficient work.

Hey!  I found OLPC's next motto: 

   With no good will, any structure is empty.
   With no structure, good will is blind.

-- 
Bastien