[Olpc-open] Grassroots bootcamp, day 1

[Mel Chua]

Representatives from 5 continents convened at the grassroots bootcamp 
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp) at 1cc today - the first 
day of a 4-day event - to collaborate on community infrastructures, 
discuss volunteer support, and eat pizza, occasionally with artichokes 
on top.

Highlights include Christoph Derndorfer (OLPC Austria) leading a 
brainstorm on the most pressing grassroots community facilitation 
problems that should be solved, and Tim Anderson from World Computer 
Exchange discussing their volunteer-based international deployment 
model. Today's grassroots bootcamp results, including full transcripts 
of discussions (full of typos, but mostly there!) and a "bug list" of 
global grassroots community program that should get solved at...

*drumroll...fanfare... curtain lift!*

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Results#Monday

How you can help:

* Add to our community bug list, 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_problems - we'll be working our way 
through that list this week.
* Comment or contribute to any of the things on the 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Results page.
* Give feedback - help us generalize this into a redeployable event so 
that people can run bootcamps in their own locales - in other words, 
"are you interested in running a bootcamp at your location?" Join the 
discussion at 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Grassroots_bootcamp#How_can_this_be_generalized.3F

All errors/emissions/typos in these notes are almost certainly my fault 
(though I hope others will continue to spell me off in transcribing, 
because my hands are about to fall off). Please correct/clarify if you 
see an occasion to improve any of these notes.

Cheers!

-Mel Chua
written at the grassroots bootcamp Monday postmortem - half of us are 
still here working.