Alex, Christoph,<br><br>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: <br>
<br> * 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 <br><br> * 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.<br>
<br>... both of these especially in the majority of deployment sites where we can't currently send anyone from OLPC.<br><br>Blair, Alex in particular has been working on a community site -- hopefully he can show you the current state.<br>
<br>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 :-)<br><br>Cheers,<br>SJ<br>