Nice post over on Beth’s blog about a library in a box idea (and not the closed black boxes some libraries buy):

Library-in-a-box is coming at these problems from several directions. One goal, for example, is to make an easily distributable CD (it could be distributed, for example, in a box!) that can install Evergreen or Koha and all their prerequisites, possibly as part of a customized linux distribution. We want to follow the example set by the Tactical Technology Collective (TTC) with their NGO-in-a-Box product.

She also discusses holding “source camps” that people could attend and learn the skills they need to support their local open-source tools. Definitely some worthwhile ideas in any region of the world.