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== Add Local Projects to the [http://www.olpcMAP.net Map!] ==
[[File:OlpcMAP-cartographer1.jpg|link=OlpcMAP#Global_MAP_making_SPRINT:_Dec_27-31.2C_2010_in_Boston|300 px|Help kids everywhere map Their world!]]
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<big><b>Attend olpcMAP JAMs!</b></big><br><br>
[http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-socal Southern California] on [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-February/012568.html February 21] & [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-February/012645.html February 28] [[Presentations#Slides and other Presentations|(PDF slides)]]


<b><i>[http://eKindling.org eKindling] and the [http://olpcMAP.net?go=southeast_asia Philippines] on [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-March/012683.html March 6] incl <font color=red>Red XO</font> [[Ekindling/OlpcMAP_eKindling%27sTrivia|Trivia Contest!]]</i></b> [[Presentations#Slides and other Presentations|(PDF slides)]]
DRAFT instructions below -- <i>help us make these friendlier to All by [mailto:beautify-AT-olpcMAP.net asking for help], thanks!</i>


[http://olpc-france.org OLPC France] [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-March/012718.html March 12] [[Presentations#Slides and other Presentations|(PDF slides)]]
'''OlpcMAP''' lives at '''http://olpcMAP.net'''
=== To edit markers: ===


[http://franXOphonie.org Gabon & French/West Africa], March 18
* Click "Edit Mode" on top

* Click marker
[http://olpcMAP.net?go=ghana Ghana's OLPC Library] by [http://webscript.princeton.edu/~ewb/projects/ Princeton Engineers Without Borders,] April 2, [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-nyc/2011-March/000164.html Paramus NJ]
* Click "Suggest Edit"

[http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc_boston/2011-April/000685.html How to CREATE+MAP yr own OLPC/Sugar Volunteer Experience] April 13, Cambridge MA

[http://olpc.at OLPC Austria], [http://olpc-deutschland.de OLPC Deutschland] & [http://olpc.ch OLPC Switzerland] on [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-April/012935.html April 18] ([http://www.care-for-kids.org/olpc-ruanda_introduction.pdf PDF slides 1], [http://derndorfer.eu/files/permanent/olpc_dach_20110418.pdf PDF slide 2], [http://openetherpad.org/j8Ntx9sIJw Live call notes], [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP/OLPC_DACH_Trivia Trivia contest results])

[http://dc.sugarlabs.org SugarLabs DC] & [http://olpclearningclub.org OLPC Learning Club] on April 28 or later May

[http://olpcMAP.net?go=kenya Kenya's Grassroots Education Communities] mid/late May?

More coming! E-mail below or click EDIT above!
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== Add Local Projects to the [http://olpcMAP.net Map!] ==

<big><big><i>[http://wiki.laptop.org/images/0/0e/Tutorial_for_olpcMAP.pdf NEW PDF Tutorial] (with [http://megaswf.com/simple_serve/103098/ Screenflow Animation])</i></big></big>


==How-To==

=== To add a marker ===

* '''Use the search''' and Google Maps to find your location
* Click '''Join the Map Network''' on the top toolbar
* Click and drag the marker into place
* Type in your e-mail, then click '''Plant Marker'''
* Go through editor pages to set information, icon, and photo
* Go through editor pages to set information, icon, and photo
** You can add a link using the format link:http://example.org
* At any point, click "Save Edits"
** Need to '''upload your photo'''? Use http://imgur.com and copy the Direct Link URL (.jpg)
** You also can link using HTML: <a href='http://example.org' target='_blank'>Link Title</a>
* At any point, click '''Save Edits'''


=== To edit markers ===
=== To add a marker (Automatically enters Edit Mode, too) ===


* '''Use the search''' to find the place or marker that you'll edit
* Click "Join the Map Network"
* Drag the marker to your location
* Click marker
* On the top of the info window, click '''Edit'''
* Enter your e-mail
* Click "Plant Marker"
* Go through editor pages to set information, icon, and photo
* Go through editor pages to set information, icon, and photo
** You can add a link using the format link:http://example.org
* At any point, click "Save Edits"
** Need to '''upload your photo'''? Use http://imgur.com and copy the Direct Link URL (.jpg)
** You also can link using HTML: <a href='http://example.org' target='_blank'>Link Title</a>
* At any point, click '''Save Edits'''

=== Map Editing FAQ ===

'''Troubleshooting''' : click Contact to write to the community curators (beautify@olpcMAP.net)

'''Whose e-mail should I provide on the map?'''

E-mails should go to a volunteer or coordinator who can answer or forward questions about the project. If a volunteer writes and says "That's awesome; I'd like to volunteer there!" the coordinator is someone who can help them along.

'''How private is my e-mail?'''

Your e-mail address is kept in our database so we can process and forward mail from the Contact form. This hides your e-mail from users of our page and spinoff maps.

If you prefer to have a link to your organization's website or contact page, let us know through the main '''Contact''' form.


=== Helpful Volunteers ===


Contact our [[#Curatorial Team|Community Curators Team]] with suggestions for making your deployment's accomplishments more vivid!


== Open Community Architecture ==
== Open Community Architecture ==
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* <i>1 Billion children who are tired of waiting!</i>
* <i>1 Billion children who are tired of waiting!</i>




===Open Source Effort===
===Open Source Effort===
olpcMAP is written in Python and is hosted on Google App Engine
olpcMAP is written in Python and is hosted on Google App Engine


The code is gradually being open-sourced at http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net
The code is fully open-source at http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net ; it can be run on open-source platforms such as TyphoonAE and AppScale.


Add issues or tackle problems listed at http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net/issues/list
Add issues or tackle problems listed at http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net/issues/list


== Become a Map Maker! ==


Please join and help cultivate our public discussion list! Send email to:


===API: Integrate maps into other sites & community services===
olpcMAPmakers+subscribe@googlegroups.com


Evolving here: [[OlpcMAP/data-api]]
Archives are here:


http://groups.google.com/group/olpcMAPmakers/topics


=== Live Chat (IRC) ===


== Join our olpcMAPmakers mailing list! ==
Please visit http://forum.laptop.org/chat and type away!


Become a Map Maker, if you enjoy curatorial gardening of any kind! Please join and help cultivate our public discussion list -- just send email to:
That's the #olpc-help channel. Advanced users may want to type bottom:

olpcMAPmakers+subscribe@googlegroups.com

Archives are here:

http://groups.google.com/group/olpcMAPmakers/topics


/join #olpcMAP<br>
(then type a few lines, being patient if we're asleep!)


That's the #olpcMAP channel, also on irc.freenode.net


== To Do ==
== To Do ==
Some of THE most important spatial media we need to welcome, are our established geo-communities:
Some of THE most important spatial media we need to welcome, are our established geo-communities:


http://www-staging.laptop.org/map
http://laptop.org/map
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Places
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Places
http://www.openwijs.nl/referenties/olpc 12 Dutch-originated microdeployments, on 3 continents?
http://www.openwijs.nl/referenties/olpc 12 Dutch-originated microdeployments, on 3 continents?
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments (already completed? move to "Inspiration" section below if so!)
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments (already completed? move to "Inspiration" section below if so!)
http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php
Actual "landmark" stickers on paper/laminate map at the Kleiders' house, from http://olpcSF.org/summit 2010!
Actual "landmark" stickers on paper/laminate map at the Kleiders' house, from http://olpcSF.org/summit 2010!
<b>http://groups.laptop.org</b>
OLPC SF Community Summit 2010: wider list of registrants
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&vps=1&jsv=286b&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108408553645876220956.00049038844650cba3cf0 (Jennifer Martino's Latin America & Caribbean deployment map!)
http://groups.laptop.org
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
<b>http://youtube.com/results?search_query=verhovzeva</b>
http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE#Events
http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE#Events
http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Tentative_POSSEs
http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Tentative_POSSEs
http://www.widernet.org/egranary/ (eGranary Digital Libraries AKA "The Internet in a Box" w/ 14 million docs each?)
http://www.widernet.org/egranary/ (eGranary Digital Libraries AKA "The Internet in a Box" w/ 14 million docs each?)
eg. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=110300756731284107900.00046b13c0e8e5f0f820a
eg. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=110300756731284107900.00046b13c0e8e5f0f820a
http://www.franxophonie.org/Carte/carte-des-projets-francophones-dimplantation-des-xo.html
geolocating-on-map forward-looking [http://olpcnews.com OLPC News] stories, http://blog.laptop.org stories, http://planet.laptop.org blogs, and insightful [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:GJavetski Country Backgrounders] etc!
geolocating-on-map more of our global movement exceptional individual volunteers, reaching out to those who've asked for such via volunteer@laptop.org (etc) over the past 3 years
http://www.re-public.gr/en/olpc/ Greece deployment(s) (http://blog.laptop.org/2010/03/30/olpc-greece-28-participating-schools/)


EG. What attractive iconography best represents your own local community's best efforts??
EG. What attractive iconography best represents your own local community's best efforts??
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A Million Thanks go to these groups whose community feeds we're already tapping:
A Million Thanks go to these groups whose community feeds we're already tapping:


http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/ (500+ kids/XOs)
http://laptop.org/map/ (500+ kids/XOs)
http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/australia/olpc_australia_xo_laptop_deplo.html
http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/australia/olpc_australia_xo_laptop_deplo.html
http://bit.ly/c20CRz (OLPCorps Africa, 2009)
http://bit.ly/c20CRz (OLPCorps Africa, 2009)
http://www.olpccanada.com/content.php?id=17 / http://www.olpccanada.com/doc/OLPC_Canada_Schools_Map.pdf
http://www.olpccanada.com/content.php?id=17 / http://www.olpccanada.com/doc/OLPC_Canada_Schools_Map.pdf
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/OfflineMap


Please [mailto:beautify-AT-olpcMAP.net write us] if you have/want ideas for more dynamically illustrating the Human Vibrancy of your community, its teachers and its children!
Please [mailto:beautify-AT-olpcMAP.net write us] if you have/want ideas for more dynamically illustrating the Human Vibrancy of your community, its teachers and its children!


== How Maps Inspire REAL (Outdoor) Learning ==
== Global MAP making SPRINT: Dec 27-31, 2010 in Boston ==


=== Global MAP making SPRINT: Dec 27-31, 2010 in Boston ===
So where are those almost 2 million One Child per Laptops? After 3 years, in dozens of countries, we challenge the world to put the story of OLPC accomplishment on the map. Photographically, telephonically, viscerally -- the passionate doers of our community movement now have the chance to connect more intimately than ever before. No matter their deployment size, their age, their creed.


Archived at [[OlpcMAP/2010Sprint]]
Implementer gurus and connected social cartographers & implementers across our global community of One Laptop per Child (http://blog.laptop.org) and http://SugarLabs.org will fly to Boston Dec 27-31 -- to physically map our geo-social fabric of small/medium/large deployments worldwide. In completely new and different ways -- on and around CMU/Nick Doiron's rapidly evolving deployment/adoption/volunteering map:


=== OLPC/Sugar Weekly Map Jams! ===
http://olpcMAP.net


Just like a Book Sprint (writing an entire book within a week, like http://laptop.org/manual) we'll beautify, rigorize and publish this community product within 5 business days!
See above, as we explore the deep lessons arising from a new [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP country or community deployment every week!]


=== Sample Curriculum Ideas ===
We're looking for the very best talent globally to join us, to lay critical seeds Connecting-The-Dots of OLPC/Sugar/ICT4Education around learning, support and content knowledge. Globally uncovering accomplishments unspoken. Starting with one single student's eye-opening social visualization -- that's already powerfully captured our popular imagination, since its alpha-launch in October 2010 at the [http://olpcSF.org/summit OLPC San Francisco Community Summit].


[http://nytimes.com/2010/12/10/technology/10geocache.html Modern Treasure Hunts for the Whole Family] (NY Times, 10 Dec 2010)
Boston schedule, attendee-list, venue & volunteer-based housing [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-October/011900.html detail] [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc_boston/2010-November/000627.html already] [http://groups.google.com/group/olpcMAPmakers fast-emerging] below in early December now, check back below -- and often!


[http://alicechristie.org/pubs/E6/ Using GPS and Geocaching Engages, Empowers, and Enlightens Middle School Teachers and Students]
=== Schedule ===


[http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/are-we-there-yet/ Are We There Yet?]
PRELIMINARY! [http://groups.google.com/group/olpcMAPmakers Help us fine tune!]


[[OlpcMAP/Trivia Contest|olpcMAP Jam Global Trivia Contest]]<br>
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
[[Ekindling/OlpcMAP_eKindling%27sTrivia|Philippines Trivia Contest]]<br>
|valign="top" rowspan="2"|Mon Dec 27
[[OlpcMAP/OLPC_DACH_Trivia|German-speaking Countries' Trivia Contest: Germany, Austria, Switzerland]]
|valign="top"|11AM - 7PM
|valign="top"|Work session at OLPC: like a real book sprint, we'll (re)finalize the "style guide" and "table of contents" (eg. who is cultivating each continent / ocean) enunciating Clear Tasks for all eager volunteers arriving Tuesday -- depending on their skillsets -- even where appropriate telephoning actual deployments and interviewing them on map. Cultivating photographic experiences, most important...
|-
|valign="top"|7PM - 9PM
|valign="top"|Boston exploration, led by volunteers like yourself (bring your toboggan & pray for snow!)
|-
|valign="top" rowspan="2"|Tue Dec 28
|valign="top"|11AM - 7PM
|valign="top"|Work session at OLPC - Share 3 Cups of Tea with [http://laptop.org/en/utility/people/ OLPC Staff]
|-
|valign="top"|7PM - 9PM
|valign="top"|TENTATIVE HEADLINERS: Peru film presentation thanks to filmmakers [http://vimeo.com/12642469 Audubon McKoewn] and/or [http://ntugiSchool.com Mark Battley], presenting in person!
|-
|valign="top" rowspan="2"|Wed Dec 29
|valign="top"|11AM - 7PM
|valign="top"|Work session at OLPC - Cartography Focus, inviting Boston's exceptional [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/boston Open Source Geospatial Community] to expand on [http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/11/16/bookmarklets-for-ushahidi-and-crowdmap/ new mapping ideas]
|-
|valign="top"|7PM - 9PM
|valign="top"|Not Your Daddy's Volunteer Network -- Evening social event organized by Marina Zdobnova (Russia) & Benaja Antoine (Haiti), around the power of intl volunteer exchanges in general, as the 21st century rearranges the possibilities (and the limits) around what meaningful ecotourism/voluntourism CAN really be.
|-
|valign="top" rowspan="2"|Thu Dec 30
|valign="top"|11AM - 7PM
|valign="top"|Work til you drop, with free dinner of your choosing, for those who've mapped & beautified a major deployment or entire country/continent!
|-
|valign="top"|7PM - 9PM
|valign="top"|Skating on [http://www.cityofboston.gov/parks/ttd/frogpond_winter.asp Frog Pond], for those new to Boston, especially if you miss our [http://kendallsquare.ehclients.com/play/details/community-ice-skating lunchtime skating earlier in the week!]
|-
|valign="top" rowspan="2"|Fri Dec 31 <br />(National Years Eve!)
|valign="top"|11AM - 7PM
|valign="top"|olpcMAP will be declared V1.0 at ***5PM*** and the MAP BEAUTY CONTEST WINNER ANNOUNCED. Skype Video call to the winner, no matter what country they're in.
|-
|valign="top"|7PM - MIDNIGHT?
|valign="top"|Party thru the night!!!
|}

SUBJECT TO CHANGE -- CHECK BACK LATER!

=== Attendees ===

Thank you to the organizing volunteers (email beautify@olpcMAP.net) already INvesting so much of their personal/family resources, flying in during 2010's Season of Giving. To celebrate a Cause They Believe In! That cause being to grow our community of face2face doers building 21st century educational opportunities for the world's poorest children, with new volunteer/internship opportunities that None Of Us Have Yet Imagined. We are thrilled to already have in attendance these powerhouse contributors:

''' In person '''

# [https://launchpad.net/~dfarning ''David Farning''] (http://ActivityCentral.org Executive Director, Wisconsin, Dec 27-31)
# [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron ''Nick Doiron''] (Carnegie Mellon University, [http://olpcMAP.net olpcMAP.net] founder, Dec 27-31)
# [http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php ''Kurt Maier''] (OLPC [[Support Gang]] founding member, Indiana, Dec 27-31)
# [http://www.haitipartners.org/who-we-are/sub-page-2/ ''Benaja Antoine''] ([http://www.haitipartners.org/the-blog/ Haiti Partners] Program Coordinator, Port-au-Prince, Dec 27-31)
# [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Holt ''Adam Holt''] (OLPC [[Support Gang|Community Support]] Manager, [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board Sugar Labs Oversight Board], Dec 27-31)
# ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bender Walter] [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter Bender]'' ([http://sugarlabs.org Sugar Labs] Executive Director, partial attendance)
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinemeeks ''Caroline Meeks''] (http://SolutionGrove.com Executive Director, partial attendance)
# [http://SaigonOLPC.wordpress.com ''Marina Zdobnova''] (management consultant, [http://ChebVolunteer.wordpress.com ChebVolunteer] community organizer, Russia, evenings only)
# [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:GeorgeHunt ''George Hunt'']'' ([[OLPC NYC]], programmer of [http://georgejhunt.com/olpc/xophoto/xophoto.html XoPhoto] ([http://xophoto.wordpress.com blog], Dec 27-30)
# ''Jessica Curtis'' - [http://twitter.com/olpcnyc Twitterer] ([[OLPC NYC]], Dec 27-30)
# ''[http://web.media.mit.edu/~calla/ Claudia] [http://twitter.com/callaurrea Urrea]'' (OLPC learning coordinator for Latin America, partial attendance)
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sj ''SJ Klein''] (OLPC Director of Outreach, Dec 27-28 especially)
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/reuben-caron/0/890/876 ''Reuben Caron''] (OLPC global deployment support, partial attendance)
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-tarditi/10/A74/748 ''Matthew Tarditi''] (Univ of Pennsylvania, Grad School of Education, Dec 27-29?)

''' Remotely '''
# ''[http://www.google.com/profiles/shirish.goyal Shirish] [http://shirishgoyal.com Goyal]'' (Accenture, Bangalore, India)
# ''[http://derndorfer.eu Christoph Derndorfer]'' ([http://olpcnews.com OLPC News] co-editor, [[Support Gang]] founding member, Vienna, Austria)

''' Maybe '''
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/bensheldon ''Ben Sheldon''] (AmeriCorps, http://CTCvista.org, http://TransmissionProject.org)
# [http://ntugiSchool.com ''Mark Battley''] (Toronto, Canada digital media/film educator & organizer)
# [http://www.bethsantos.com ''Beth Santos''] ([http://waveplace.org Waveplace Foundation] Community Coordinator)
# [http://ephas.org ''G. Ryan Ansin''] (Childrens' photography facilitator and publisher in Cambodia, Haiti & beyond)
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/pazonada ''Audubon McKeown''] (Peru ICT4D [http://vimeo.com/12642469 filmmaker])
# [http://www.iit.edu/csl/socs/faculty/hosman_laura.shtml ''Laura Hosman''] (Illinois Institute of Technology, http://IITempoweringHaiti.org)
# [http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/ravitch ''Sharon Ravitch''] (Univ of Pennsylvania, Grad School of Education, partial attendance?)
# [http://luke.faraone.cc ''Luke Faraone''] (OLPC [[Support Gang]] founding member, [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:LFaraone Sugar Labs] volunteer, DC [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations Community Repair Center] manager, OLPC web infrastructure intern, Virginia)

<big><b>[mailto:beautify-AT-olpcMAP.net RSVP] if you'd like to confirm your (a) contribution and (b) spot!</b></big>

=== Venue ===

We anticipate using space provided by our gracious hosts, the OLPC Foundation, in Kendall Sq, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

=== Lodging ===

You need to secure your own housing and travel. Volunteers will do their best to match up rich volunteers with poor, just as in October in SF at http://olpcSF.org/summit, to all do our best making sure housing and a few select airfares are covered -- when truly exceptional talent is demonstrated. Please write our [http://groups.google.com/group/olpcMAPmakers public mailing list] explaining how you personally can deepen our efforts!


== Outreach ==
== Outreach ==


http://twitter.com/olpcMAP (beginning slowly)
http://twitter.com/olpcMAP (beginning slowly, Tweeters needed :)

http://blog.olpcMAP.net (contact [mailto:beautify-AT-olpcMAP.net Marina] if you enjoy communications & can help!)

Or [mailto:beautify-AT-olpcMAP.net help in any other way], even if just asking us for fun/regional updates emailed occasionally :)

== Curatorial Team ==

Don't hesitate to [mailto:beautify-AT-olpcMAP.net contact our great team] of volunteer community curators:


Best blogs so far:<br>
[http://olpcSF.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php Kurt Maier]<br>
[http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com Marina Zdobnova]
http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com<br>
http://travelpod.com/travel-blog/nsevers/4/tpod.html


Dynamic newsletter/blog anticipated...contact [mailto:beautify-AT-olpcMAP.net Marina] if you enjoy communications & can help!
== Design Team ==


Or [mailto:beautify-AT-olpcMAP.net help in any other way], even if just asking us for newsletter or fun/regional [http://groups.google.com/group/olpcMAPmakers updates] emailed occasionally :)
[[user:Ndoiron|Nick Doiron]]<br>
[http://www.google.com/profiles/shirish.goyal Shirish Goyal]<br>
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/bensheldon Ben Sheldon]<br>
[[User:mikelee|Mike Lee]]<br>
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Holt Adam Holt]

Latest revision as of 23:57, 20 April 2011


Help kids everywhere map Their world!

Attend olpcMAP JAMs!

Southern California on February 21 & February 28 (PDF slides)

eKindling and the Philippines on March 6 incl Red XO Trivia Contest! (PDF slides)

OLPC France March 12 (PDF slides)

Gabon & French/West Africa, March 18

Ghana's OLPC Library by Princeton Engineers Without Borders, April 2, Paramus NJ

How to CREATE+MAP yr own OLPC/Sugar Volunteer Experience April 13, Cambridge MA

OLPC Austria, OLPC Deutschland & OLPC Switzerland on April 18 (PDF slides 1, PDF slide 2, Live call notes, Trivia contest results)

SugarLabs DC & OLPC Learning Club on April 28 or later May

Kenya's Grassroots Education Communities mid/late May?

More coming! E-mail below or click EDIT above!



Add Local Projects to the Map!

NEW PDF Tutorial (with Screenflow Animation)


How-To

To add a marker

  • Use the search and Google Maps to find your location
  • Click Join the Map Network on the top toolbar
  • Click and drag the marker into place
  • Type in your e-mail, then click Plant Marker
  • Go through editor pages to set information, icon, and photo
  • At any point, click Save Edits

To edit markers

  • Use the search to find the place or marker that you'll edit
  • Click marker
  • On the top of the info window, click Edit
  • Go through editor pages to set information, icon, and photo
  • At any point, click Save Edits

Map Editing FAQ

Troubleshooting : click Contact to write to the community curators (beautify@olpcMAP.net)

Whose e-mail should I provide on the map?

E-mails should go to a volunteer or coordinator who can answer or forward questions about the project. If a volunteer writes and says "That's awesome; I'd like to volunteer there!" the coordinator is someone who can help them along.

How private is my e-mail?

Your e-mail address is kept in our database so we can process and forward mail from the Contact form. This hides your e-mail from users of our page and spinoff maps.

If you prefer to have a link to your organization's website or contact page, let us know through the main Contact form.


Open Community Architecture

In a democracy, we are each others' infrastructure. Our geo-social fabric takes inspiration from:

  • Dialogue between public and private community spaces

     http://theopensourceway.org/wiki/Communities_of_practice

  • Good Faith Collaboration = people who share a passion to learn, by interacting regularly, and conscientiously

     http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Reagle/Berkman_Reading_Group

  • Creativity = allowing yourself to make mistakes
  • ART = knowing which ones to keep
  • 1 Billion children who are tired of waiting!


Open Source Effort

olpcMAP is written in Python and is hosted on Google App Engine

The code is fully open-source at http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net ; it can be run on open-source platforms such as TyphoonAE and AppScale.

Add issues or tackle problems listed at http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net/issues/list


API: Integrate maps into other sites & community services

Evolving here: OlpcMAP/data-api


Join our olpcMAPmakers mailing list!

Become a Map Maker, if you enjoy curatorial gardening of any kind! Please join and help cultivate our public discussion list -- just send email to: 

 olpcMAPmakers+subscribe@googlegroups.com

Archives are here: 

 http://groups.google.com/group/olpcMAPmakers/topics


To Do

Some of THE most important spatial media we need to welcome, are our established geo-communities: 

 http://laptop.org/map
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Places
 http://www.openwijs.nl/referenties/olpc 12 Dutch-originated microdeployments, on 3 continents?
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments (already completed? move to "Inspiration" section below if so!)
 Actual "landmark" stickers on paper/laminate map at the Kleiders' house, from http://olpcSF.org/summit 2010!
 http://groups.laptop.org
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
 http://youtube.com/results?search_query=verhovzeva
 http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE#Events
 http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Tentative_POSSEs
 http://www.widernet.org/egranary/ (eGranary Digital Libraries AKA "The Internet in a Box" w/ 14 million docs each?)
 eg. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=110300756731284107900.00046b13c0e8e5f0f820a
 http://www.franxophonie.org/Carte/carte-des-projets-francophones-dimplantation-des-xo.html
 geolocating-on-map forward-looking OLPC News stories, http://blog.laptop.org stories, http://planet.laptop.org blogs, and insightful Country Backgrounders etc!
 geolocating-on-map more of our global movement exceptional individual volunteers, reaching out to those who've asked for such via volunteer@laptop.org (etc) over the past 3 years
 http://www.re-public.gr/en/olpc/ Greece deployment(s) (http://blog.laptop.org/2010/03/30/olpc-greece-28-participating-schools/)

EG. What attractive iconography best represents your own local community's best efforts?? 

 http://EscueLab.org  (Lima, Peru)
 http://olpcLearningClub.org  (Washington DC, possible icon 1, larger 427 × 306 pixel JPEG)
 http://olpcSF.org
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Southern_California_OLPC_Projects  (incl Google Map of local prjcts!)
 http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc_boston
 http://olpc.at  (OLPC Austria)
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC
 http://olpc-france.org
 http://olpcOceania.blogspot.com
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_New_Zealand
 (Uruguay's many strong groups have brilliant logos already; showcase these on our main page to spark others??)
 Etc!!

Inspiration maps & feeds

A Million Thanks go to these groups whose community feeds we're already tapping: 

 http://laptop.org/map/ (500+ kids/XOs)
 http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/australia/olpc_australia_xo_laptop_deplo.html
 http://bit.ly/c20CRz (OLPCorps Africa, 2009)
 http://www.olpccanada.com/content.php?id=17 / http://www.olpccanada.com/doc/OLPC_Canada_Schools_Map.pdf

Please write us if you have/want ideas for more dynamically illustrating the Human Vibrancy of your community, its teachers and its children!

How Maps Inspire REAL (Outdoor) Learning

Global MAP making SPRINT: Dec 27-31, 2010 in Boston

Archived at OlpcMAP/2010Sprint

OLPC/Sugar Weekly Map Jams!

See above, as we explore the deep lessons arising from a new country or community deployment every week!

Sample Curriculum Ideas

Modern Treasure Hunts for the Whole Family (NY Times, 10 Dec 2010)

Using GPS and Geocaching Engages, Empowers, and Enlightens Middle School Teachers and Students

Are We There Yet?

olpcMAP Jam Global Trivia Contest
Philippines Trivia Contest
German-speaking Countries' Trivia Contest: Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Outreach

http://twitter.com/olpcMAP (beginning slowly, Tweeters needed :)

Best blogs so far:
http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com
http://travelpod.com/travel-blog/nsevers/4/tpod.html

Dynamic newsletter/blog anticipated...contact Marina if you enjoy communications & can help!

Or help in any other way, even if just asking us for newsletter or fun/regional updates emailed occasionally :)

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