<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hi</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 April 2016 at 21:44, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">The strategic need is to establish direct communication with
            folks at these deployments to get first-hand information.
            This direct communication can put the community in direct
            contact with the user community and help us provide more
            relevant capabilities.<br>
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            I think this is going to be a deployment-by-deployment
            process.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">[deployment ideas]<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I added them to the Local Labs Contact page</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
            The webpage is a good start (<a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs/Contacts" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs/Contacts</a>).
            However, it is connected to the local labs program. You may
            want to find out from Walter about its current status. </span>The
            idea died aborning because under our agreement with the
            Conservancy, Sugar Labs was not permitted to establish
            subsidiary groups. So I think the wiki effort should be independent of that initiative.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Conservancy position sort of makes sense, but I understood that a "Local Lab" is just what Sugar Labs calls a user community, the same thing that OLPC called a "deployment" (which I think is a poor marketing term, since it has US-imperial/military overtones.)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">We also need a format where we can gather significant
            information - perhaps a link from this page to a page per
            deployment. </span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right; the <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs</a> page has a directory like that.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">The key in each case is to have a local contact
            (e.g. email address) where we can get direct answers to
            questions as they come up and propose capabilities which may
            be of help. </span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right; that's what I want to tabulate on the Contact page. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">The questions we need answered go far beyond
            whether XOs are used inside a classroom or elsewhere. For
            example, if users are allowed to take laptops away from the
            institution, what has been the impact on wear and tare. If
            users 'own' the laptop; how does the institution replace
            them for incoming students.<br>
            How has the Uruguay Plan Ceibal impacted learning in later
            grades - e.g. in readiness to use computers effectively in
            secondary school learning. The list could go on.</span></blockquote></div><br>All good ideas, I put them into <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Local_Labs_Survey_2016">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Local_Labs_Survey_2016</a> :) <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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