[Chapter-delegates] Community Grants Project Showcase

[Connie Kendig]

Hi everyone.  I've contributed the below showcase of two of our  
Chapters' projects for the ISOC member newsletter.  I thought it a  
good idea to share this information with you all as well - I'll  
continue to share Chapter Community Grants project updates in the  
future.

Community Grants Programme Project Showcase

Project Title: Experiencing IPv6
Edition of a handbook about how to deploy and set up the new version  
of Internet Protocol (IPv6) in different scenarios.

Contributed by Monica Abalo Laforgia, ISOC Argentina (November 2008  
grantee)

Even though international organizations like Internet Society, LACNIC  
or 6Deploy have been working on the implementation of IPv6 protocol,  
ISOC-AR indentified that –within the region- there wasn´t a book  
containing the necessary information to guide people in the  
configuration and implementation of IPv6 in accordance with their needs.
The Experiencing IPv6 project aimed to create a handbook that helps  
people with the adoption of new IPv6 protocol. “IPv6 para Todos” (IPv6  
for Everyone) is a book edited like a user guide which shows how to  
understand, deploy and set up IPv6 in different scenarios offering a  
simple, clear and non-technical language. Written by national and  
international experts in IPv6’s development and implementation, the  
book was divided in chapters for each environment -Final User, SOHO  
(Home Office), Services, Enterprises, Research and Academia and ISPs-.  
It also has an Introduction which explains the global scenario about  
the eventual depletion of IPv4 and the necessity to adopt IPv6.
The handbook will be available in Spanish and English in the next  
coming weeks on the ISOC-AR and ISOC.org websites.
The biggest challenge with this Project was to coordinate the delivery  
of the material from collaborators in order to comply with the  
schedule committed and have the book designed and printed by October  
15th.  One always thinks that you will have “all the time” to finish  
the project; but when you see that the time has run out and the  
committed date is closer, you realize how important is the  
contribution of each individual involved in the project and how the  
team must work as coordinated pieces of a machine. That’s why as  
Project Leader the lesson learned from this project was the importance  
of the team-work and the commitment of the people who join. Without  
them, it could not be possible to accomplish this goal. Thanks!



Project Title: Vocational Training on Open Source Software - Needs  
Analysis

Contributed by Julia Velkova, ISOC Bulgaria (May 2009 grantee)

The project “Vocational Training on Open Source Software – Needs  
Analysis” was executed by Internet Society Bulgaria in the period  
between June 2009 and September 2009. The main goal of the project was  
to perform a small research on the needs and problems related to  
vocational training on Open Source Software in Bulgaria. It was  
foreseen that there will be used additional resources and contacts  
from already accomplished projects (e.g. TRAIN_OS, SELF) in order to  
get information about other European countries too.The ultimate  
objective of the project was to understand what are the current key  
demands and problems related
to offering vocational training on open source software and suggest  
measurements to overcome these.

In the course of the project, it was collected qualitative and  
quantitative data, through surveys and personal interviews with  
experts, representing institutions involved in Open Source Software  
training in Bulgaria. The problems related to a wider provision of  
Open Source Software trainings which were discovered during the  
project execution, could be summarized in the following three major  
groups: availability and variety of courses on OSS, cooperation with  
the businesses as well
as various issues concerning the training content itself. Among the  
conclusions is that there is a need for better collaboration with the  
private sector, in order to supply training materials and  
infrastructure for practical exercise, as well as for raising  
awareness about the general copyright principles and specific  
licensing issues regarding educational materials and sharing of  
knowledge.

The project team, consisting of Julia Velkova and Dragoslava Greve  
from Internet Society Bulgaria, considers that the project results  
might be useful and relevant to other countries, where Open Source  
Software is popular but where the training possibilities related to it  
are rather limited.

For the full report from the survey and the project performance, and  
to review ISOC-AR's report, please visit the ISOC Community Grants  
website: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/projects/


Connie J Kendig
Sponsored Programs & Grants Manager
Internet Society
www.isoc.org

<Kendig at isoc.org>
Tel: (703) 439-2136