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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.

CMQF: Completeness, Multilingualism, Quality, Freeness. Four values from 0 to 6, describing the status of known materials in a given group a) that we can point to, and b) that laptop users can use at no charge. Completeness refers to coverage of the topic, Freeness to access fees, licensing and reusability.

C M Q F      Group    | Group coordinator |  Contributing groups and their curators	  
				

Overall

2 1 1 4   Open education portals	 OER Commons [OERC] (Lisa Petrides), Curriki (Joshua Marks),
          Book module creation tools    Connexions (8-college), CK12 (K-12), Wikibooks
          Literacy portals              Google Literacy (Jessica Powell) 

Topical

1 1 2 1   Literacy, language learning  | Todd Kelsey | Google Literacy Project, Karin Ploetz (Frankfurt LitCam)
          Basic works | Conall Ryan
          Basic tools | Ignatz Heinz (Avallain) | Jeff Fleishman

2 3 3 3   Literature  | Internet Archive, ICDL, Logos children's library, 
          Project Gutenberg (John Guagliardo).  Individual authors. 

2 1 2 2   Mathematics | Mathematica, LD Virtual Manipulatives
          Books and works | OERCommons, Avallain

2 1 3 3   Science | Biology (E.O. Wilson Foundation, Frans Lanting) | 
          Earth sciences (ChemProject) | 
          Agriculture & Ecology | Martin Gleeson | (Michael Jensen, EO Wilson, cf. Calestous Juma)				
4 3 4 4   Reference | Encyclopedias (Martin, Andy Sission, Wikipedia), Dictionary (Gerard Meijssen, OmegaWiki), Logos (children's dictionary)	
          Atlas, Geography (WD, WikiAtlas; CIA Factbook,  Allan Doyle (EOGEO), Adam Holt, Schuyler Erle)  	
          How-tos | Jack Herrick, Felicity Tepper (WikiHow), Phil Torrone (MAKE); OLPC guides (Asher Miller)	
          National library search | Justin Thorp (World Digital Library), OCLC, OER Commons

3 2 4 1   Culture | Museums and libraries : Justin Thorp (WDL), Museum of Fine Arts  
          Film	|| Godfrey Reggio (Anima Mundi, Qatsi trilogy)
          Music & Art || Tim Hwang (Antenna Alliance, Freemusic Project), Jon Phillips (CC)	
          National culture & sport || Adam Brandi 

2 1 2 3   Health || Partners in Health, R. Wurman, WHO, UNICEF
          Water & Sanitation | Chris Fabian | UNICEF, AfricaBio
          Prevention || Erica K., Martin G. 

2 3 2 2   Games | Kent Quirk | Ben Sawyer, David Edery, Josh Ellis, Chuck Norman (Electronic Arts)		        
          Simulations || CC, SimCity (Don Hopkins)

3 3 3 4   Computers, programming | Ian Bicking | Learning programming: eToys (Alan Kay), Develop activity
          Books || (Wikibooks: Intro to Python/Wikis/TCP/IP), No Starch Press (Intro to Linux) 	

1 1 1 1   Trades ||  Pratham (Business ideas, projects)
          Basic economics || Economics (Premal S, Kiva; ZB)

Formats

Many formats: Ourmedia, Wikimedia commons, Creative Commons Search

       Wiki texts || Cormac Lawler (Wikiversity), Wikibooks, Anne Schreiber (Curriki)	
       Book 'Players' and similar formats || Conall Ryan
       Drawing || Paint activity; Inkscape; Etoys
       Photographs || Flickr, Charles Smith (EOW)	
       Audio || Librivox, freesound, ccMixter, Free Music Project
       Video | Peter Kaufman | Intelligent Television, Wikimentaries (BBS), Library of Congress, Jeff Fleischman (Sesame Workshop)	
       Animations || Beth Anderson, Bang Wong (Broad); 		

Tools

       Musical, Artistic || Barry Vercoe, Jean Piché, Manu Gupta (Tux Paint), 	
       Programming environs || Alan Kay (eToys), Rob Saovye 	
       Text recorders, readers & editors || OSU (abiword), Manu (Xbook), IK (Journal/eReader)
       Media recorders, readers & editors  || Rob Savoye (Gnash), Erik B (Video), Real (Helix), Other
       Cartoon creation | Ignatz Heinz | Cartoonbuilder

Conversion/Translation

       Format conversion || ffmpeg2theora, theorur (OGG audio/video), PG (crossmark), 
       Text-to-speech || R Vergara (Gruppo Logos); to simplified language: Sabine
       Translation || Sabine Cretella (OmegaT, proz.com), GerardM, Og Maciel; Todd Kelsey (Google Translate)

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 || Amee Godwin (OERC)
 Spanish || Antonio, John Condon, 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], 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).

      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