[IAEP] Fwd: Local Labs in Germany - sugarlabs Deutschland

[Walter Bender]

I only just noted that this email didn't go to all of its intended
recipients. Note that we had an initial discussion of this proposal at
today's Sugar Oversight Board meeting (see
http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2011-01-13T20:03:31).

regards.

-walter


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Raffael Reichelt <raffael.reichelt at googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:46 AM
Subject: Local Labs in Germany - sugarlabs Deutschland
To: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
Cc: sugarlabs at sugarlabs.org


Dear Walter!
Hopefully I got the above adress "slabs at sl.o"  right ... if not:
may I ask you to forward this?

I wanted to ask if I may sign the sugarlabs Memorandum Of
Understanding for starting some activities here in germany.

The general Idea is to provide sugar to children, parents, teachers
and institutions (e.g. schools) by some kind of place to go. Every
local lab will be a place, children can come to after school or for
scheduled tutorials  to use a "sugarized"  environment. If possible
i.e. if teachers or schools are ready to cooperate, homeworks or
additional courses are provided by a School Server. In order to
facilitate this, roadshows for parents and/or teachers are organized.
A "Mobile Lab" will provide a moveable lab environment including pc's,
schoolserver and (mobile) networking facilities.
My first concrete project is a lab for one of the childrens hospitals
of Ludwig-Maximilians-University here in Munich: Dr. von Haunersches
Kinderspital. Some pc's/notebooks  running sugar and a weekly tutorial
for the children staying at the hospital. WLAN is already available in
all rooms. So even tied to the bed children will be able to
communicate to children in other rooms of the hospital. If the
children are leaving they may take their USB-stick or SD-card home.
On the sugar activities side I am about to program an activity to
enable children to understand the principles of their therapy e.g.
insuline-therapie for Type 1 Diabetes.

As far as I understood to embed this to sugarlabs organization the
concept of a local lab as described  in the wiki would be a perfect
fit. To give it the correct legal frame here in germany a non-profit
association (Verein) would be the choice. The proposed name for this
association is "sugarlabs Deutschland". This is where the MOU comes in
place...
I hope this gives you a first understanding. Do not hesitate to ask if
there are open questions.
Regards,
Raffael




-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org