[Grassroots-l] organisation, olpc_europe, etc.

[Alexander Todorov]

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Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> With all the discussion of olpc europe, how groups should get  
> organized etc.... here is something to read and ponder about.
> We met in person for dinner (thx Helga!) and had to discuss a few  
> things face to face.
> Amongst them the argument between me and Chris about something called  
> olpc_europe which is not even clearly defined yet, but which was
> already announced prematurely on heise.de (biggest IT related news  
> source in all german speaking countries).
> 
> So the whole group came together and he had this consensus finding  
> process.
> In the end we arrived at the following... (interesting to read!)
> 
> 
> 
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>> From: Simon Dorner <office at simondorner.com>
>> Date: March 4, 2008 6:58:29 PM GMT+01:00
>> To: olpc intern <olpcaustria-intern at tema.lo-res.org>
>> Subject: [Olpcaustria-intern] What we talked about last week...
>>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> So this is what i condensed out of our discussion last week:
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> As some of you might have noticed we at OLPC Austria had a quite
>> heated discussion about OLPC Europe last week. Eventually the debate
>> turned out to be worthwhile and we kind of reached a consensus on
>> what we suggest for OLPC Europe. I agreed to sum up our current
>> thinking and send it out like this.
>>
>> We think that OLPC Europe is moving a bit too fast and it needs time
>> to evolve more out of a number of strong local groups. The focus
>> should be to build and support those local groups first. Therefore we
>> suggest that for the time being OLPC Europe should not yet be a fully
>> defined and structured legal entity but rather a simple web platform
>> for people to get information about what's happening in their and
>> other countries. There are two concrete things that we suggest:
>>
>> 1: Let's create an OLPC Europe web site that consists of an
>> aggregated blog of all the individual European groups. Every group
>> that wants to join sets up a simple blog and all their news gets
>> added to the main blog via RSS. That would be a great resource for
>> everyone and is enough for now.

How about different languages? Is that a concern or not?
Having 10 (or more) different languages on one website makes it a bit
unreadable. I think it would be nice to tag entries with the country name so
people can filter out the ones they can't read.

Thanks,
Alexander.
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