Summer of Content mentors

Summer of Content 2007 +/-

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• Create a mentor profile for yourself either by editing this page manually (click the "edit" button on the top) or by clicking the "Apply as a mentor" button here:

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• If your organization is listed in the Summer of Content organizations list, email the main contact listed for your organization and notify them that you have applied as a mentor.
• If your organization is not listed, put "freelance" as your organization (or better yet, convince your organization to join!)
• Check out the projects on the projects page; add your ideas, comment on existing ones, and add your names to the projects you're interested in.

Organization

List main Summer of Content contact for this organization, and how to contact them.

Also put any other information about your organization that potential interns should know when applying.

Mentor name

Write your profile here. Some ideas: contact information, background, links to appropriate pages, kinds of projects you are interested in mentoring, languages you would be comfortable mentoring in.

Centro Open Source (COS)

The COS is an international center of research and development for FLOSS solutions located in Lima-Perú. Their activities starts on April 2007 with many projects in a brief called "Caja Mágica FLOSS" (Magic Box FLOSS). The director of COS is: Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes, old peruvian hacker since 1982 who starts in the "scene" with Commodore 64 with experience and knowledge in development, communications, electronics, etc., Alfonso is also "Research and Development Manager" of ICTEC SAC (A peruvian company of Perú for FLOSS solutions).
The COS currently has started 5 projects of their BOX:
- EduKT (Easy Multimedia Content Builder) - Currently on Beta
- AmiGO (Low Cost Robots) - Currently on Alfa
- ITv (Server/Client Solution por Interactive Television) - Currently on Alfa
- ScienTO (Scientific Cartoon-like simulator) - Planning
- Kidtz (Simple Electronics Kits for children with software included) - Planning
All the projects are social and the license must be GPL and Creative Commons. also the programming language used is Python and C++ for some cases.
The mentoring will be on spanish and some english.

Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes

Loves the research and development on mostly all areas, main goal: go forward the FLOSS projects from Latin America, specially filling some miss parts in the world. Alfonso's Blog.

Developing Curriculum, Inc.

Developing Curriculum, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the development of high-quality learning materials.

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

Main Summer of Content contact: Mel Chua - contact info on userpage

More about us at http://www.laptop.org.

Mel Chua

Interested in developing a frontpage and supporting materials for volunteer coordination and community-building, running a local Curriculum Jam or overall OLPC Jams development, development of non-conventional textbooks, webcomics. Also interested in accessibility, particularly for the hearing-impaired. Bio and contact information on user page.

Lauren Klein

Contact info on user page - Developing activities, lesson plans, and curricula emphasizing OLPC design features and learning principles.

SJ Klein

Contact info here. Localization, learning games, and distributed/synchronized wiki projects.

Commonwealth of Learning (CoL)

Wayne Mackintosh is the main SoCon contact for COL. SJ Klein or Patricia Schlicht can be contacted when Wayne is travelling or difficult to reach.

The Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. In particular, they are the group behind Wikieducator.

COL will sponsor stipends for five successful project submissions for SoCon 2007. Applicants must be Commonwealth citizens or residents. You can work remotely (actually, we'd prefer to have people outside Vancouver join us) or in the Vancouver office if you live in the area, subject to available physical space at our offices.

Wayne Mackintosh

Wayne Mackintosh - eLearning and ICT Policy - A free education curriculum by 2015

Joshua Mallet

• Joshua Mallet - Learning and Livelihoods and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

Patricia Schlicht

• Patricia Schlicht - Programme Assistant for Joshua Mallet and Wayne Mackintosh

FLOSS Manuals

[1] contact : Adam Hyde <adam@flossmanuals.net>

FLOSS Manuals is an open platform (wiki) for developing quality free manuals about free software.

There are a lot of people that know a lot about software. There are also a lot of people that need to know about software. FLOSS Manuals aims to connect the two by making writing and reading about software easy.

Adam Hyde

Founder of FLOSS Manuals. Interested in mentoring for FLOSS Manuals. Language : English

Freelance mentors

Mentor name

Write your profile here. Some ideas: contact information, background, links to appropriate pages, kinds of projects you are interested in mentoring, languages you would be comfortable mentoring in.

Mel Chua

Sponsor organization: OLPC

Email: mel (at) laptop (dot) org

Languages spoken: English, American Sign Language (basic)

Background: Electrical and computer engineer with a strong interest in education. Interested in developing a frontpage and supporting materials for volunteer coordination and community-building, running a local Curriculum Jam or overall OLPC Jams development, development of non-conventional textbooks, webcomics. Also interested in accessibility, particularly for the hearing-impaired. A longer biography and contact information is available on my user page.

Sponsor organization: Tell us which of the Summer of Content organizations you are working with.

Email: address (at) domain (dot) com

Languages spoken: List the languages you can mentor projects in here.

Background: Write your profile here. Keep it short; 4-6 sentences is a good length. Some ideas: location, background and experience, kinds of projects you are interested in mentoring, what you have done for your organization before, specific projects you are interested in. Link to external pages/sites as needed.

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The Subject/headline of this post should be your name.

When you have filled in the information above, click the "Save Page" button. You will be able to link to your profile by adding the text "Your Name" (no quotes) into any of the Summer of Content projects pages. See Summer of Content mentors#Mel Chua for an example.