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

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.

I'm recruiting localizers, engineers, and a few other specialties
right now, and would be delighted to work together with whoever else
wants to do this on whatever projects are needed.

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

I've been talking with people about creating a company to partner with
OLPC on deployments, to handle teacher training, local rollout,
renewable sources of electricity, Internet connections, and whatever
else turns out to be needed. And funding options, whether grants,
microfinance, or investments in regular for-profit businesses.

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

Good. May I see, too?

> 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 :-)

Thanks, SJ.

> Cheers,
> SJ
>
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