[OLPC library] Someday we have to get organized (Edward Cherli

[Bryan Berry]

Ed,

I really struggle w/ this myself. I have a lot of trouble communicating
what we are doing in Nepal and finding out what others are up to. We
need to facilitate better communication b/w the pilot countries, OLPC,
and volunteers. I suspect that the solution is only partly technical.
OLPC really needs a full-time community manager. SJ currently is the
community manager and director of Content. He just has way too much on
his plate. 

OLPC should really consider hiring a full-time Community Manager. That
person would need to understand both the open-source hacker community
and field educators who don't use IRC, wikis, etc. but really care about
kids.

-- 
Bryan W. Berry
External Relations Manager
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:27:38 -0800
From: "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com>
Subject: [OLPC library] Someday we have to get organized
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I'm having trouble between this list and the Wiki just finding out
who's involved and what's going on. We also need some way to get
information from children with laptops about the "user experience".
Better still, we need to bring children into this conversation and
into the writing projects.

Could we talk about how to provide better information for each other?

-- 
Edward Cherlin
End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business
http://www.EarthTreasury.org/
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay


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