<div style="text-align: center;"><br><br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I hope to see you at the meetings, and looking forward to work together  in relation to build an AU Sugar labs.<br><br><br>cheers<br clear="all"> </div></div>          <br><br><br>Rafael Ortiz <br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Please join the weekly deployment team discussions on IRC (Wednesdays<br> at 14:00 UTC -- we can switch the times around if it is too difficult<br> for those of you in OZ). We have been discussing the various goals and<br> mechanics of local Sugar Labs and your voices should be heard.<br> <br> thanks.<br> <br> -walter<br> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Joel Stanley<br> <<a href="mailto:joel.stanley@adelaide.edu.au">joel.stanley@adelaide.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br> > 2008/12/11 David Farning <<a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org">dfarning@sugarlabs.org</a>>:<br> >> Your reputation as an organizer precedes you:)  I would invite you to consider:<br> >> Helping us figure out exactly what Local Labs are.<br> >> Establish Sugar Labs - Australia to support local deployments and feed<br> >> best practices back upstream.<br> >> Encourage and support local deployments.<br> >><br> ><br> > Hello All,<br> ><br> > I've been speaking with Bill Kerr and Bernie about establishing an AU<br> > local lab for a few weeks now[0].  More recently I've been talking to<br> > Pia, who is setting up the <a href="http://olpcfriends.org" target="_blank">http://olpcfriends.org</a> community, and<br> > Rangan, who is the Executive Director[1] of OLPC-AU, and among other<br> > things is running a "G1G1" for Australians.<br> ><br> > We've got lots of interest in Sugar, and a number of people who are<br> > setting up their own groups to work on it (weather that is Sugar<br> > directly, or under the name of various OLPC groups).  Working out<br> > where a local lab fits into all of the above is something I've been<br> > spending some time thinking about recently.<br> ><br> > My current thought is perhaps Sugar Labs is a common banner to group<br> > contributors under, as a place for meeting, sharing and discussing<br> > online.  They can then take that with them as they go out to trials,<br> > deployments, and other groups.<br> ><br> > Do you have any thoughts?<br> ><br> > Joel<br> ><br> > [0] offlist.  This thread is a good reminder (to me) of why it's good<br> > to have discussions onlist<br> > [1] I think he should be the executive officer, so we can call him the XO :)<br> > _______________________________________________<br> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> ><br> <br> <br> <br> </div></div><font color="#888888">--<br> Walter Bender<br> Sugar Labs<br> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>