Curators and maintainers
| Philosophy |
| Creating Content |
| Curating Content |
| Educational ideas |
| Activity ideas |
| Software ideas |
| Hardware ideas |
| Help Translating |
| Library |
| Content network |
| Repositories |
| Collections |
| modify |
Central selection of interesting materials, even sample materials to seed local creation, does not scale. To enjoy successful collaboration, each topic, medium, and language needs curators – people devoted to tracking the proliferation of contributing projects, coordinating related efforts, improving quality, and teaching new contributors what is needed and what the target audience is like. As individual topics grow in popularity, their curators should grow in number and specialization. This curation is needed for dozens of projects; OLPC, with its attractive, universal, and near-term goals, is a beacon for volunteers.
Coordinators can expect to spend 3-5 hours a week responding to email related to their topic, primarily connecting different curator groups and content projects with one another, and responding to or redirecting inquiries. If you are starting to coordinate a topic, you may want to set up a Request Tracker list and account for it.
Curators should target developing 2-20M content bundles for downloading to XOs, 20M-200M collections for school libraries, and child-friendly portals/lenses for their online sites and archives.
Contents
Overall
| Group/org | Liaison | Curator |
|---|---|---|
| Open education portals | ||
| OER Commons [OERC]/ISKME | Lisa Petrides | Amee Godwin |
| Creative platforms | ||
| Curriki | Bobbi Kurshan | Joshua Marks(t) |
| Connexions | Rich Baraniuk, Joel Thierstein | Raymond Wagner |
| CK12 | Neeru Khosla | Murugan Pal(t) |
| Wikiversity | Cormac Lawler | |
| Wikibooks | ||
| Campaigns and outreach | ||
| Frankfurt LitCampaign | Karin Ploetz | Barbara Roelle |
| Google Literacy | Jessica Powell | |
| UN Millennium Campaign | (game, texts) | |
| Archiving | ||
| Internet Archive | Brewster Kahle | - |
Topical
| Literacy, language learning (Todd Kelsey) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Colingo language learning | Ben Lowenstein | |
| Avallain basic skills | Ignatz Heinz | |
| Children's publishing | Conall Ryan (McGH), Carol Sakoian (Sch), Mcm | |
| Literature | ||
| Internet Archive | Aaron Swartz | Allison Druin, Kristine Hanna |
| ICDL | ||
| Logos children's library | Cinzia Bazzani | Zdenek |
| Project Gutenberg | John Guagliardo | |
| Google Books pdfs | Luke Hutchison | |
| Individual authors/publishers (various) | ||
| Mathematics | ||
| Mathematica | Joy W | |
| LD Virtual Manipulatives | Utah State | |
| Books and works | ||
| General | OERC, Connexions | |
| LOC | ||
| Biology | ||
| E.O. Wilson Foundation | Neil Patterson | Charles Smith |
| Glossopedia - children's encyclopedia of life | Gerry Ellis | |
| Nature images | Frans Lanting | |
| Earth Sciences | ||
| Agriculture & Ecology | (Martin Gleeson, Michael Jensen, Calestous Juma) | |
| Reference:General | ||
| Encyclopedias | Martin (1.0) Andy Sisson (snap), Gerry Ellis (Glossopedia - children's encyclopedia of life) | |
| Dictionary | Gerard Meijssen (OmegaWiki), Zdenek (...), Logos (children's dictionary) | |
| Atlas | John @ Metacarta | Schuyler Erle?, Name.org (Adam Holt) |
| Reference:Other | ||
| WikiHow | Jack Herrick | Felicity Tepper, Dvortygirl |
| MAKE | Phil Torrone | ? Josh Ellis |
| OLPC guides | Asher Miller? | Todd Kelsey |
| National library search | OCLC | (see also LOC, G!Books, Justin Thorp) |
| Culture:Museums and libraries | ||
| World Digital Library | Justin Thorp (WDL) | Museum of Fine Arts |
| Qatsi & Anima Mundi | Godfrey Reggio | |
| Culture:Free Music | ||
| Jamendo | Sylvain Zimmer | Tim Hwang / Antenna Alliance? |
| CC-music | Jon Phillips | |
| Culture:National/sport | ||
| Health | ||
| Partners in Health | Richard Wurman | Mike Hawley |
| WHO, UNICEF | ||
| Water & Sanitation | Chris Fabian | Terra Weikel |
| Prevention | ||
| AfricaBio | ||
| Games | ||
| PyGame | Lincoln Quirk | Ben Sawyer, Kent Quirk, .. |
| Second Life | Kent Quirk | |
| SimThings | Chuck Norman | Don Hopkins, ... |
| Flash works | Josh Ellis, Gnash-dev | |
| Computers, programming | ||
| Etoys | Alan Kay, Kim Rose | Bert Freudenberg |
| Develop activity | orospakr? | |
| Books | ||
| Wikijunior | zanim | |
| No Starch Press | Intro to Linux | |
| Trades | ||
| Pratham (Business ideas, projects) | India | |
| Kiva | Zvi Boshernitzan | ? Basic economics |
Formats
| Wiki texts | Cormac Lawler, Erik Moeller, Joshua Marks |
| Book players | Conall Ryan, Mcm |
| Drawing | Inkscape, Etoys, Paint |
| Photographs | Gmaxwell, Flickr |
| Audio | Librivox, ccMixter, Adir Abraham (ogg vorbis), Free Music Project |
| Video | Peter Kaufman, Open Video Project |
| Animations | Bang Wong (Broad), Beth Anderson |
Tools
| Musical | Barry Vercoe +1, Jean Piché |
| Programming | Alan Kay, ? (Javascript), Mitch Bradley (Forth) |
| Text recorders | OSU (abiword), Ian Bicking (ereader) |
| Media recorders | Rob Savoye (Gnash), Erik Blankinship (Video), Josh Irwin (Helix), Gstreamer |
| Animation, cartoons | Ignatz Heinz (Cartoonbuilder) |
Conversion/Translation
| Format converstion | Adir Abraham (ffmpeg2theora); ? (theorur), PG (crossmark) |
| Text-to-speech | Sabine? (to simplified language), Vergara (Logos, localizations) |
| Translation tools | Sabine Cretella (OmegaT, OmegaWiki), Og Maciel (Ubuntu community), Marco? (Fedora translation toolkit); Chase Tingley (Idiom) |
| Automatic translation | Todd Kelsey (Google); Ed Bice (Meadan, IBM) |
Language and Geography
Languages should have at least one coordinator per country from country teams. Green and red countries should have at least one coordinator (focusing on local organization coordination, not content per se).
Languages
Languages should have a coordinator from outside even where countries are not cooperative.
English || Spanish || Xavi? Arabic || Nalrawahi, Adil Allawi? (Diwan) Portuguese || Og Maciel (Ubuntu), Bruno Magrani French || Soufron Urdu || cf. Habib Khan Thai || Shankar, Suyesh Smaller languages || Don Osborn, Ndesanjo Macha, Dwayne Bailey [Africa], General || Gerard Meijssen [many]
Geography
Geographic coordinators will soon be needed to help coordinate NGO and educator activity in that region; curators from specific regional projects (rather than specific subject areas). See Map.
US & Canada
Mexico, Central & South America
Central America & the Caribbean
South America
Africa
North & West Africa
Central, East & South Africa
Middle East
Europe
Asia
North Asia
South & Southeast Asia
East Asia
Australia & the Pacific
Global & Other
