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'''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. [http://url-goes-here.com Link] to external pages/sites as needed.
'''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. [http://url-goes-here.com Link] to external pages/sites as needed.


== Lauren Klein ==


'''Sponsor organization:''' [[Summer of Content organizations#One Laptop Per Child|One Laptop Per Child]]
=== Developing Curriculum, Inc. ===


'''Email:''' Contact info on [[User:Lauren|user page]].
Developing Curriculum, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the development of high-quality learning materials.


'''Languages spoken:''' English
== One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) ==


'''Background:''' Interested in developing activities, lesson plans, and curricula emphasizing OLPC design features and learning principles.
Main Summer of Content contact: [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] - contact info on userpage


== SJ Klein ==
More about us at http://www.laptop.org.


'''Sponsor organization:''' [[Summer of Content organizations#One Laptop Per Child|One Laptop Per Child]]
=== Mel Chua ===


'''Email:''' Contact info on [[User:Sj|user page]].
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:Mchua|user page]].


'''Languages spoken:''' English, German
=== Lauren Klein ===


'''Background:''' Director of Content for OLPC. Interested in localization, learning games, and distributed/synchronized wiki projects.
Contact info on [[User:Lauren|user page]] - Developing activities, lesson plans, and curricula emphasizing OLPC design features and learning principles.


=== SJ Klein ===
== Wayne Mackintosh ==


'''Sponsor organization:''' [[Summer of Content organizations#Commonwealth of Learning|Commonwealth of Learning]]
[[User:Sj|Contact info here.]] Localization, learning games, and distributed/synchronized wiki projects.


'''Email:''' Contact info on [http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/3004 website].


'''Languages spoken:''' English


'''Background:''' Interested in eLearning and ICT Policy and developing free education curriculum by 2015. Works on http://wikieducator.org.
== Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) ==


== Joshua Mallet ==
[http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/3004 Wayne Mackintosh] is the main SoCon contact for COL. [[User:sj|SJ Klein]] or [http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/2855 Patricia Schlicht] can be contacted when Wayne is travelling or difficult to reach.


'''Sponsor organization:''' [[Summer of Content organizations#Commonwealth of Learning|Commonwealth of Learning]]
The [http://www.col.org/colweb/site 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 [http://wikieducator.org/ Wikieducator].


'''Email:''' Contact info on [http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/2846 website].
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.


'''Languages spoken:''' English
=== Wayne Mackintosh ===


'''Background:''' Interested in Learning and Livelihoods and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
[http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/3004 Wayne Mackintosh] - eLearning and ICT Policy - A free education curriculum by 2015


=== Joshua Mallet ===
== Patricia Schlicht ==


'''Sponsor organization:''' [[Summer of Content organizations#Commonwealth of Learning|Commonwealth of Learning]]
* [http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/2846 Joshua Mallet] - Learning and Livelihoods and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)


'''Email:''' Contact info on [http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/2855 website].
=== Patricia Schlicht ===


'''Languages spoken:''' English
* [http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/2855 Patricia Schlicht] - Programme Assistant for Joshua Mallet and Wayne Mackintosh


'''Background:''' Programme Assistant for Joshua Mallet and Wayne Mackintosh
== FLOSS Manuals ==


== Adam Hyde ==
[http://www.flossmanuals.net] contact : Adam Hyde <adam@flossmanuals.net>


'''Sponsor organization:''' [[Summer of Content organizations#FLOSS manuals|FLOSS manuals]]
FLOSS Manuals is an open platform (wiki) for developing quality free manuals about free software.


'''Email:''' <adam@flossmanuals.net>
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.


'''Languages spoken:''' English


'''Background:''' Founder of [http://flossmanuals.net FLOSS Manuals]. Interested in mentoring for FLOSS Manuals.


== Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes ==
== Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes ==

Revision as of 11:11, 25 July 2007

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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:

<inputbox> type=comment default=Summer of Content mentors buttonlabel=Apply as a mentor bgcolor=#fffcf9 preload=Summer of Content mentor application break=no </inputbox>

  • 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.

Lauren Klein

Sponsor organization: One Laptop Per Child

Email: Contact info on user page.

Languages spoken: English

Background: Interested in developing activities, lesson plans, and curricula emphasizing OLPC design features and learning principles.

SJ Klein

Sponsor organization: One Laptop Per Child

Email: Contact info on user page.

Languages spoken: English, German

Background: Director of Content for OLPC. Interested in localization, learning games, and distributed/synchronized wiki projects.

Wayne Mackintosh

Sponsor organization: Commonwealth of Learning

Email: Contact info on website.

Languages spoken: English

Background: Interested in eLearning and ICT Policy and developing free education curriculum by 2015. Works on http://wikieducator.org.

Joshua Mallet

Sponsor organization: Commonwealth of Learning

Email: Contact info on website.

Languages spoken: English

Background: Interested in Learning and Livelihoods and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

Patricia Schlicht

Sponsor organization: Commonwealth of Learning

Email: Contact info on website.

Languages spoken: English

Background: Programme Assistant for Joshua Mallet and Wayne Mackintosh

Adam Hyde

Sponsor organization: FLOSS manuals

Email: <adam@flossmanuals.net>

Languages spoken: English

Background: Founder of FLOSS Manuals. Interested in mentoring for FLOSS Manuals.

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

Email: Mel-email.JPG

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.