Some advances related to SugarLabs Colombia, We have now the mail setup for each member, <a href="mailto:user@co.sugarlabs.org">user@co.sugarlabs.org</a> members are people that have work for more than two months constantly on  olpc/sugar related things. We  have  also the first mailist. <a href="mailto:sugar-colombia@co.sugarlabs.org">sugar-colombia@co.sugarlabs.org</a> We still lack a wiki solution but working on it.. also we lack an static landing portal...also working on it. cheers! Rafael Ortiz <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:36 PM, David Farning <<a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org">dfarning@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: > For the last couple of weeks we have been talking about establishing > Local Sugar Labs.  Most of the conversations have been with individual > groups that are interested in establishing Local Labs (and the > infrastructure team.) > > The overriding theme of the conversations has been autonomy.  The > Local Labs are interested in building on top of the Sugar product and > brand to provide solutions that are tailored to local cultural and > environmental needs. > > At this point we have about thirty groups that have expressed interest > in setting up local labs.  These groups vary from individuals > interesting in deploying Sugar, to Ministers of Education interested > is developing Sugar for their nations, to Universities interested in > supporting the Sugar Labs mission. > > From an organizational standpoint Local Labs are pretty straight > forward.  As long as they adopt the Sugar Labs mission or a subset of > the mission, they become part of Sugar Labs. > > At this point we can't offer local labs very much; a wiki at > <a href="http://country.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">country.sugarlabs.org</a>, a mailing list at <a href="mailto:country@lists.sugarlabs.org">country@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>, > and email addresses at <a href="mailto:user@country.sugarlabs.org">user@country.sugarlabs.org</a>, and some very > sparse guidelines for how to start and organize a Local Lab at > <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/Regional_Sugar_Labs" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/go/Regional_Sugar_Labs</a> . </div>Thanks, David, this is going to make a big difference. That's plenty to get started with. I have passed this to OneVillage Foundation Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. We will probably have some more countries to list soon. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero from Colombia is working with Bernie and > Ivan to sort out and test the Infrastructure issues. > > If you are interested in setting up a Local Lab please add your > contact information to the table at > <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/Regional_Sugar_Labs/Contacts" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/go/Regional_Sugar_Labs/Contacts</a> .  As a starting > point a Local Lab will cover a entire country (or state in a large > country). </div>I did Ghana pro forma, and I have asked our country director Kafui Prebbie to do it properly. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > thanks > david > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > </div>-- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai</a> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></div></div></blockquote></div>