[ALUG] Working group 2 (Collaboration Workspace)

[Richard]

Hi Guys,

So far the ideas seem to be on one hand an internet cafe / workspace which 
over time can have facilities added to it (like the hosting platform that 
Brian suggested) and on the other hand a sort of outreach center.

I would like to ask a few questions in the hope of soliciting more 
discussion:
1. Are the two ideas compatible? I guess if we start with an internet cafe 
sort of setting with people bringing their own laptops the outreach will 
have to wait until we have at least a couple of work stations or in-house 
laptops.

2. Given that we do not want this to be like a traditional computer school, 
what exactly will it be like? A secondary school student can probably 
enroll in a general computer school, then maybe afterwards university or a 
professional qualification (Cisco etc) training school. Given those options 
that exists out there, what would we hope the students to learn? Going down 
this road will require at some point things like needs assessment, 
curriculum development etc.

3. Of course there is the option of just lending the space to students say 
on particular days and letting them enjoy decent internet and hope they 
just learn something informally from being around other more experienced 
people. This leads to me next question, what would be the goal here? In 
other words, if we were to do this for say 2 years, we would say this is 
successful if what happens? Having a goal would help us refine our thinking 
here.


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