Uniting the community's infrastructure

2008-01-01 Thread Chris Hager 
Hi all!

 From now on, the channel #olpc-groups is open with the ambition to 
connect local communities from everywhere! I can imagine a lot of 
potential for collaborations, projects, problem solving and 
not-reinventing-the-wheel :) !

SJ and I have talked about the current status of the irc-infrastructure 
for the communities, and had some ideas for the future. Basically,

1. many of the local channels are inactive
2. we have had no channel to cross-connect communities
3. the channel #olpc-europe developed from the ccc
4. the whole olpc project is gaining momentum

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5. the logical next step would be a united communities-channel to focus 
our common effort!

We could basically connect via #olpc-groups on a global basis, and use 
#olpc-europe/asia/africa/... for regional discussions.

The same idea could apply to some of the mailing-lists. We can basically 
use the grassroots list (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots)! 
Please post feedback to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I wish you all an interesting and successful year 2008!

- chris
(olpc austria)

   ...
   _sj| crazy: there are no active country channels
   _sj| but very active community members :)   we just need a place to
   discuss self-organization, regional meetups, a few infrastructure
   things (which are the same around the world)
   kikka a virtual place?
   _sj| well, here I'm talking about a single irc chan...
   kikka Ah, okay.
   crazy-chris _sj| you're right, the country channels are not used
   _sj| crazy: start with one #olpc-groups, merge existing country
   chans until there's a lot of focused traffic for one
   _sj| and keep separate channels for open discussion by language
   _sj| #olpc can split into #olpc-lang when it gets too busy;
   #olpc-groups can split into #olpc-region when it gets too busy.
   crazy-chris _sj|: okay, that sounds very good.
   _sj| but, none of the olpc chans are too busy yet :)
   crazy-chris heh, yeah
   crazy-chris will change thought :)
   _sj| even #olpc and -help are pretty quiet
   _sj| yeah
   crazy-chris the contributors program ...
   crazy-chris i think to merge the channels is the way to go. i'll
   get working on that.
   _sj| chris: thank you
   ...




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Re: Uniting the community's infrastructure

2008-01-01 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 
Chris Hager wrote:
 Hi all!
 
  From now on, the channel #olpc-groups is open with the ambition to 
 connect local communities from everywhere! I can imagine a lot of 
 potential for collaborations, projects, problem solving and 
 not-reinventing-the-wheel :) !
 
 SJ and I have talked about the current status of the irc-infrastructure 
 for the communities, and had some ideas for the future. Basically,
 
 1. many of the local channels are inactive
 2. we have had no channel to cross-connect communities
 3. the channel #olpc-europe developed from the ccc
 4. the whole olpc project is gaining momentum
 
 =
 
 5. the logical next step would be a united communities-channel to focus 
 our common effort!
 
 We could basically connect via #olpc-groups on a global basis, and use 
 #olpc-europe/asia/africa/... for regional discussions.
 
 The same idea could apply to some of the mailing-lists. We can basically 
 use the grassroots list (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots)! 
 Please post feedback to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 I wish you all an interesting and successful year 2008!
 
 - chris
 (olpc austria)

Well, like a lot of the Internet and life in general, things tend to
self-organize. I've started a Google group for Portland Oregon XO
owners, and I'm personally on quite a few of the other mailing lists.
In any event, I'm not sure it's time yet for any consolidation, either
on mailing lists/Google Groups or in IRC. I think the best we should
hope for at this point is to ask everyone on IRC to use the characters
olpc in naming channels. That way, the IRC client channel listers can
find them.

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