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The community of open content and open source developers maintain and curate collections by topic and source. If you are maintaining one of these collections, or would like to maintain one that is currently dormant or not yet maintained, please add your name below and on the individual page for that project.

To submit new materials, please post a description and link to your work, or send email with details to content@laptop.org.

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Local networks of laptops and school servers provide a platform for sharing existing knowledge and new ideas and cache materials from archives larger than individual school servers can hold.

Curators and maintainers are responsible for a single project or collection. They should be prepared to select from that collection two classes of activities or content bundles : those with a smaller footprint, for downloading to XOs (under 20MB, with moderate memory and cpu demands, are ideal); and those with a larger footprint, designed to be a resource to XOs, for school servers where available. Curators with websites should also consider creating or designing a child-friendly and language-neutral lens into their site.

Each topic, medium, and language also needs coordinators — people devoted to tracking the proliferation of projects, collections, and related efforts, and reviewing new submissions for quality and audience. Coordinators determine what content is needed, and convey these needs to individual curators, and can seek out new collections as well; they spend less time curating or maintaining projects directly.

Contribute

A list of current curators and maintainers follows. Maintainers for an entire topic or verb tend to coordinate the efforts of each individual curator and maintainer within that space more than they work on an individual project.

Coordinators are responsible for connecting individual maintainers to each other within their group, and responding to related inquiries. This takes slightly more regular work than curation, and varies by the interest of new contributors. Note to coordinators: you may want to set up a Request Tracker account or list for your group, and you may want a separate trac component for it (in addition to separate components for individual active projects).

To become a curator/maintainer or coordinator, leave a message on the talk page.

Maintainers

see also the Activity grid. If you maintain one of the activities or topics below, please sign below.'

Activity	Maintainer, related groups and people	Comments
Browse	Marco (see also: OLPC, others wanted)	custom, from Firefox
Chat	Morgs (see also: Collabora)	unrelated to video chat
Video Chat	Gdesmott (see also: Collabora)	on hold, much requested
Cartoon Builder	?? (see also: Shannon @ WorldWideWorkshop)	from a set of 12. see related Comic Maker
...

Curators

see also Collections

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	Joshua Gay	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 (Ben Lowenstein)
Colingo language learning	Ben Lowenstein, Arthur Richards
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 (Ed Yuen, HSO)
Partners in Health
Richard Wurman	Mike Hawley	Dave Johnson
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

Collection	Curator
Wiki texts (Cormac Lawler, Erik Moeller, Joshua Marks)
Book players (Conall Ryan, Mcm)
Drawing
Inkscape
Etoys
Paint
Photographs
Gmaxwell
Flickr
Audio (Jamendo)
Librivox
ccMixter
	Adir Abraham (ogg vorbis)
Free Music Project
Video (Peter Kaufman)
Open Video Project
Animations (Bang Wong, Beth Anderson)

Tools

Tool	Curator
Musical (Barry Vercoe +1, Jean Piché)
Programming (for texts and such; see also maintainers, above)
Squeak	Alan Kay
Javascript	John Resig?
Forth	Mitch Bradley
Java	Adam Bouhenguel
Text recorders
abiword	OSU?
ereader	Ian Bicking (Adir Abraham)
Media recorders
Gnash	Rob Savoye
Video	Erik Blankinship
Helix	Josh Irwin (Michael Burns for more contact)
Gstreamer
Animation, cartoons
Cartoonbuilder	Ignatz Heinz

Conversion/Translation

Topic	Curator
Format converstion
ffmpeg2theora	Adir Abraham
theorur
crossmark	PG
Text-to-speech
(to simplified language)	Sabine?
Logos, localizations	Vergara
Translation tools
OmegaT, OmegaWiki	Sabine Cretella
Ubuntu community	Og Maciel
Fedora translation toolkit	Marco?
Idiom	Chase Tingley, Todd Kelsey
Automatic translation
Google	Todd Kelsey
Meadan, IBM	Ed Bice

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.

Language	Coordinator
English
Spanish	Xavi?
Arabic	Nalrawahi, Adil Allawi? (Diwan)
Portuguese	Og Maciel (Ubuntu), Bruno Magrani
French	Soufron
Nepali	Shankar, Suyesh
Urdu	cf. Habib Khan
Thai
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 OLPC_world_map.

Region	Curator
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	OLPC PH
East Asia
Australia & the Pacific
Global & Other