[IAEP] Google sponsor of All for Good portal, matches volunteers with projects

[David Farning]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Mike Lee<curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Caroline Meeks<solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts on local (ie in a school opportuntoes) bs sugar labs as a
>> global cyber entity?
>
> Wow, massive topic. We should make this one of the marketing meetings.
> Discussions like this will lead us to a Sugar Labs volunteer
> recruitment strategy.
> I'll think more about this tomorrow and jump back in.

Yes, This is a huge issue.  It is one of the primary reasons in favor
of establishing local labs.  The idea of participating in a global
open source project could be overwhelming to many people. Taking part
in a local community working on concrete tasks may provide a more
effective on-ramp for some contributors.

Currently Sugar Labs is working closely with three different types of
local labs; University/Campus focused - RIT, Community/Volunteer
focused - DC, and regional/payed support - Colombia.

My guess is that no two local labs will be exactly the same....  Over
the next year I hope that we can develop a collection of best
practices to help local labs answer these questions for themselves and
their specific goals.

david

david

>>
>>>> I want to list volunteer opportunities to help at the Gardner elementary
>>>> and
>>>> Lilla Fredrick Middle School.  Both these schools will be working with
>>>> Sugar
>>>> this summer and there are opportunities to work directly with the kids
>>>> and
>>>> Sugar as well as providing technical, writing, marketing and fundraising
>>>> support.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know when you figure out how I should do this and how we should
>>>> tie
>>>> all the various local projects into the overall Sugar Labs umbrella.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Caroline
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm on it. It just so happens I am working directly with this Google
>>>>> team here in D.C. as part of my day job. Also, one of our Learning
>>>>> Club members is an engineer on the project. It was a major deal that
>>>>> AllforGood.org powers the administartion's Serve.gov site. More
>>>>> announcements coming next week. Small world...
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=Education&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=11567&timeperiod=everything&cache=1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A good place for Local Labs in the USA to list?
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Caroline Meeks
>>>> Solution Grove
>>>> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>>>>
>>>> 617-500-3488 - Office
>>>> 505-213-3268 - Fax
>>>>
>>
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