[Olpc-open] Grassroots bootcamp recap

[Mel Chua]

The first OLPC Grassroots Bootcamp ran last week at Boston at OLPC 
headquarters - thanks to all who attended, presented, and participated 
and helped us build community infrastructures, share best practices for 
grassroots movements, compile a list of Grassroots problems to work on, 
flesh out a Volunteering process, flesh out the role of a Community 
ambassador (or ambassadors), and - of course, the smaller moments... 
playing soccer, eating copious quantities of pizza, filling wall-to-wall 
whiteboards multiple times over with notes ranging from technical 
specifications to a request for parfaits, and just getting to know 
people from all walks of life and all corners of the world.

You can view notes and transcripts from each day at 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Results.
[edit] Got notes from the bootcamp?

If you attended the bootcamp, took photos, have notes, project files, or 
any other things from the past week, please post them on the wiki so all 
can see - a good place to put these is 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Results. We're 
particularly in need of notes from Thursday.
[edit] Feedback - please help us improve!

If you're looking through the things we've posted and have suggestions 
for how we can clean up, clarify, and provide context behind some of the 
notes to make them more useful to others, please post them to the 
feedback page, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Feedback 
(or reply to me via email) and we'll do our best. There were plenty of 
bugs in the bootcamp process, as this was a rough first round - so 
feedback and suggestions for how to make a better bootcamp will be 
enthusiastically welcomed.
[edit] Interested in running your own?

Speaking of future bootcamps: One of the goals for this prototype 
bootcamp was to come up with a framework and resources such that other 
groups could run their own (better! localized!) grassroots training 
bootcamps in the future. Are there any groups out there interested in 
running/hosting a bootcamp of their own (preferably this summer)? We 
need some locations to help us figure out what resources we need to make 
available to help non-Bostonian bootcamps run, so please let us know if 
this something you'd be interested in helping us work out. It's much 
easier to build resources if you have someone particular in mind you're 
building them for, after all. See 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Feedback#I.27m_interested_in_running_my_own_bootcamp.

Cheers and thanks to all!

-Mel and the bootcamp crew