[OLPC-Philippines] Lines of Communication

[Carlos Nazareno]

Another thing to consider is that olpc-philippines at lists.laptop.org is
publicly archived on the web and if there are sensitive internal
matters that must be discussed online, anything said in here will turn
up on Google searches. So I think there's a need for a private list.

1) We can go mailman on www.olpc.ph, the same mailing list manager
we're using right now in this list.
2) We can go Google Groups (Ryan just set up one)
3) We can go Yahoo Groups which is what most Filipinos use; most of us
have Yahoo accounts because a lot of us were early social netwrok
adopters and users of E-groups before it was bought by Yahoo and
rebranded as Yahoo groups.

The social network pages like for Facebook and Multiply should just be
to augment advocacy and create awareness. http://www.olpc.ph should
really be the centralized rallying point for the group, kinda like
http://www.olenepal.org/ for Nepal.

I'm going to see if anyone at Philweavers, the oldest Web Designer org
here in the Philippines, wants to volunteer for chipping for the
development of the OLPC.ph website. The XO-1 unit I brought during the
Philweavers December Christmas party created quite a buzz, and a lot
of photo ops and picture taking with it happened ;)

All the best,

-Naz

2009/1/15 Cherry Withers <cherry.withers at gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> I guess we have to start with this topic before we could even begin to
> organize. Since I won't be
> available for the meeting I'd like to put in my input now.
>
> I am a fan of Google, but I would caution us from adopting yet again another
> form of communication.
> As it is, we have the following lines of communication:
> 1) OLPC-Philippines Mailing List & Wiki Site
> 2) Facebook Site
> 3) OLPC-Philippines Multiply site
> 4) #olpcph channel for chat
> 5) Chief Mike's Blog
> 6) We'll likely to have our own PR site: www.olpc.ph
>
> Here's another thing to consider: Should we have a separate line of
> communication from the developer's group? We don't want to be inundated
> with e-mails about recent builds,etc. as their efforts ramp up.
>
> We can look at pros and cons for each site. We're likely to keep 3 or 4 of
> the above, but it would be nice to narrow this down to 2 (we can have a link
> to the Pilot school progress via Chief Mike's Blog). But just to brainstorm
> what we need for choosing a candidate program for our organization,given
> that we're a global one:
>
> 1) We need a program with a discussion board that's visible to everyone, and
> a way for members to elect whether they'd want a per post update or
> just as we log-in update.
> 2) A way to poll our members say come election time or just to vote on
> issues.
> 3) A way to archive meeting minutes.
> 4) A way to see which members are available to chat and be able to chat on
> the fly without having to go to a separate site.
> 5) A calendar
> 6) A file depository so members can pull documents, etc.
>
> If that's Google Groups so be it. Sandeep, you're more familiar with
> facebook... are there separate applications that we can
> get from facebook to satisfy most of the above? This would be ideal since
> there are already 220 members in there and it would be
> a pain to get people to move.
>
> Just my two cents. I'll poke around each of the programs above and other
> programs (Google Group. Yahoo Group, etc. ) and will try to come up with a
> pros and cons list before the meeting.
>
> Cheers,
> Cherry
>>

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