[OLPC-DE] Fwd: [Grassroots-l] organisation, olpc_europe, etc. (was: Fwd: [Olpcaustria-intern] What we talked about last week...)

[Aaron Kaplan]

Ueber die diskussion bzgl. olpc-europa: hier nochmals die mail die  
auf die grassroots at lists.l.o ging.
Ich denke, das haben noch ein paar (Sebastian?) noch nicht mitbekommen.

Bitte denkt mal drueber nach.



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> From: Aaron Kaplan <aaron at lo-res.org>
> Date: March 6, 2008 11:12:01 AM GMT+01:00
> To: grassroots at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: [Grassroots-l] organisation, olpc_europe, etc. (was: Fwd:  
> [Olpcaustria-intern] What we talked about last week...)
>
> 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!)
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> 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.
>> 2: We think that as long as OLPC Europe is just that, an aggregated
>> blog with a common motto, it is absolutely crucial that everyone
>> agrees not to use OLPC Europe as a means to generate funding. That
>> (along with some basic info text on the web site) must be in the
>> small print and has to be agreed to in order to join. Money would
>> bring chaos without the right structure - and it's really way too
>> early to talk about that structure.
>>
>> OLPC Europe as a structured legal entity can be founded when the time
>> is right and the need for it and broad consensus are there. We also
>> think that in order to create a legal organisation we should all meet
>> in person and talk.
>>
>> But first let's all get some work done locally. What do you think?
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> So what do you think?
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>>
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