[Grassroots-l] [laptop.org #14765] Volunteer opportunities

[Samuel Klein]

Alex, Christoph,

Meet Blair Golson, interested in community reporting and how people get into
the field to work with deployments.  We spent some time discussing the
current state of OLPC community outreach and fieldwork, and touched on two
things:

 * we don't yet have the social infrastructure to identify groups of
talented volunteers willing to form a local team to help out in a particular
country or region

 * we have a lot of low-hanging fruit to gather in terms of identifying NGO
and University contacts by country, and helping them get involved / share
local knowledge about how to get things done / sign up to host volunteers or
give them projects to work on.

... both of these especially in the majority of deployment sites where we
can't currently send anyone from OLPC.

Blair, Alex in particular has been working on a community site -- hopefully
he can show you the current state.

I copy the grassroots list, as part of my commitment to not sending any
email longer than a paragraph that doesn't go to some public list :-)

Cheers,
SJ
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