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Revision as of 11:03, 25 July 2007
About · FAQ · Calendar · Contact Projects · Organizations · Mentors · Interns · Volunteers
If you are new to wikis, check out Wikieducator's excellent tutorials for an introduction.
- 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.
Mentor applicants
Mentor name
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.
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.
Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes
Sponsor organization: Centro Open Source
Email: needs email
Languages spoken: Needs languages spoken
Background: 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.
Mel Chua
Sponsor organization: One Laptop Per Child
Languages spoken: English, American Sign Language (basic)
Background: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.