OLPC Sugar ecosystem

from the teamwiki

QUESTION: How many organizations are within the lowercase "olpc" ecosystem?

See also country and supporters + groups working with OLPC.

RELATED Question: Who are the primary contacts for the top few hundred of these groups? How do we normally engage them? How can we better communicate campaigns and other important events?

exs: Todd Kelsey didn't know about olpcorps. M.Vota didn't know about the broadened CP.

1. olpc : 1:1 computing for all children

2. OLPC Association / Foundation
3. Sugar Labs

   olpp : computing for everyone

4. Gdium One Laptop Per Hacker ... http://www.gdium.com/group/58/home
5. SkoleLinux merging with Extremadura (similar, accomplished western Spain project, tho only 2 developers)

   Educational and teacher tool chains for classrooms with computers

6. Moodle

   Activism for development

7. Taking IT Global and youth involvement
8. UN youth caucuses and youth rights networks, http://unv.org
9. Mozilla Education meets for public calls Mondays 11AM Eastern Time
10. "Uppercase" groups like Microsoft's: Tech for Emerging Markets and Unlimited Potential
11. Teachers with out borders
    1. Contact page
12. Scratch Visual Programming (celebrating Scratch Day May 16)
13. ( Aggregation of teacher's "e-learning" blogs like http://ahlness.com )
14. "OER" Open Education Resources (compare "LMS" learning management systems), beyond http://CK12.org
15. http://eyeos.com open-source OS/environment for schools
16. Guardian's Learn.co.uk
17. Intl/Japanese Pictorial/Pictogram system Bernie believes has much more (potential) than Esperanto, which has strong adult facilitation, even if Windows-based for now: http://www.pangaean.org (similar to the traditional http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss-Symbol and the more popular now: http://www.prentrom.com/ --Simon Schampijer)

Proposal/s

• <please link here anything that you think can address propagation or solution>

1. [OLPC Eco-system]
2. [1] Dell's new online community for educators?

More specific groups

Communities for creating class ideas and materials

• WikiEducator
• Wikiversity
• CK-12
• Curriki sponsored by Sun Microsystems

  working with Nortel's LearnIT.org

Educator networks

Book-creation communities and sites

Personal powerplants : solar and other power for individuals to run devices

Free software and hardware platforms

• Free hardware consortium
• Fedora, Debian

Classes of orgs

The /type/ of association is important. We can break this down into a few large categories:

• improving education

 ---> access to knowledge
 ---> empowerment to learn and explore
 ---> access to opportunity, jobs, &c

• technology for education

 ---> access to computing
 ---> 1-to-1 computing
 ---> online teaching and education networks

• pursuing activism and collaboration for <...>

 ---> education.
 ---> development work, poverty alleviation.
 ---> social improvement, conflict resolution

• free software tools

 ---> kernel and linux hacking
 ---> general free software development (of the whole toolchain)