[IAEP] Local Labs - Self Replicating

[Sebastian Silva]

Self replicating is exactly the way to go, we're perfectly syncronized
on this. My version of Governance+Social Contract for FuenteLibre is
way overdue but I expect to launch them on monday.

Organic growth takes time and pain. It takes error and loss.
Social collaboration implies feelings, as interaction shapes our
identity, our self-image.

I've posed some hard questions here and there with the intention of
having a clear map of our (and/or my) values and principles. These are
immensely important, as what we're saying when we say "copy our model"
is, "this is a good model for a society".

I am convinced this is the way to transform society, and education is
the perfect starting point.

So stuff, like
"Its an education project"
and "Its a free software project"
must be properly defined.

I've only career as educator of myself but I think I can summarize my
standpoint on education by quoting Humberto Maturana's "Student's
Prayer" poem:

"The Student's Prayer
by Umberto Maturana

Don't impose on me what you know,
I want to explore the unknown
and be the source of my own discoveries.
Let the known be my liberation, not my slavery.
The world of your truth can be my limitation;
your wisdom my negation.
Don't instruct me; let's walk together.
Let my riches begin where yours ends.
Show me so that I can stand
on your shoulders.
Reveal yourself so that I can be
something different.
You believe that every human being
can love and create.
I understand, then, your fear
when I ask you to live according to your wisdom.
You will not know who I am
by listening to yourself.
Don't instruct me; let me be.
Your failure is that I be identical to you."

(much better spanish original:
http://www.rmm.cl/index_sub.php?id_seccion=6080&id_portal=737&id_contenido=11108)

This pretty much summarizes what the Free Software revolution means
for me in computing, and what I want to bring to Education in my
country.

For instance, if you descend to my level, you'd appreciate that rural
communities will easily relate the Software Patents problem because
they are the victims of a very similar problem regarding genetic
patents. They *will* care.

So excuse me when I cough if it is said we're expected to help
appropriate the platform but then expect me to brand our users. It is
just meant for territory demarcation and is not meant as an
aggression.

Thank you so much for helping put some order and releasing some control.

Sebastian

2008/12/4 David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>:
> How do we spread and expand Sugar's reach?  How about designing Sugar
> Labs to self replicate?  We are getting pretty close.
>
> How did Sugar Labs start? With a mission, a vision, some values, a
> wiki, a mailing list, and a handful of passionate people who shared
> the mission, vision and values.  Sugar Labs then leveraged the Sugar
> code base and much of its original infrastructure from OLPC.
>
> How do you start a Local Labs? The same way:)
>
> From a 'people' point of view, a Local Lab is a collection of people,
> located in a geographical area, who share Sugar Lab's mission (or a
> sub-set of the mission), vision, and values.
>
> From an 'organizational' point of view, a Local Lab can take Sugar
> Labs team structure[1] and modify it to meet local needs.  If Sugar
> Labs - Colombia is not interested in development, that is fine.  The
> development team can be left as a stub and all of the effort can be
> shifted into the deployment team or vice versa.
>
> david
>
> 1. http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Teams
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-- 
Sebastian Silva
Iniciativa FuenteLibre
http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/