[Grassroots-l] organisation, olpc_europe, etc.

[jaume]

Hi all,
I will propose to use a drupal for the olpc europe web site.
Drupal is made for social networks and un gpled software, with lots of 
features that we can need.
what do you think?

jaume


Alexander Todorov wrote:
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> Aaron Kaplan wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>       
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> 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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