Curators and maintainers: Difference between revisions

From OLPC
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(notes.)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{content-nav}}
{{content-nav}}
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.
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.

Coordinators can expect to spend 3-5 hours a week responding to email related to their topic, primarily connecting different curator groups and content projects with one another, and responding to or redirecting inquiries. If you are starting to coordinate a topic, you may want to set up a [[Request Tracker]] list and account for it.

Curators should target developing 2-20M [[content bundles]] for downloading to XOs, 20M-200M collections for school libraries, and child-friendly portals/lenses for their online sites and archives.

== Overall ==
== Overall ==
{| width=600px border=1 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=3 style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto; border: 1px #666666 solid; border-collapse: collapse; background: #f9f9f9;"
{| width=600px border=1 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=3 style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto; border: 1px #666666 solid; border-collapse: collapse; background: #f9f9f9;"

Revision as of 21:37, 9 August 2007

Philosophy
Creating Content
Curating Content
Educational ideas
Activity ideas
Software ideas
Hardware ideas
Help Translating
Library
Content network
Repositories
Collections
modify 

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.

Coordinators can expect to spend 3-5 hours a week responding to email related to their topic, primarily connecting different curator groups and content projects with one another, and responding to or redirecting inquiries. If you are starting to coordinate a topic, you may want to set up a Request Tracker list and account for it.

Curators should target developing 2-20M content bundles for downloading to XOs, 20M-200M collections for school libraries, and child-friendly portals/lenses for their online sites and archives.

Overall

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 Neeru Khosla 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 (Todd Kelsey)
Colingo language learning Ben Lowenstein
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
Partners in Health Richard Wurman Mike Hawley
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

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

Tools

Musical Barry Vercoe +1, Jean Piché
Programming Alan Kay, ? (Javascript), Mitch Bradley (Forth)
Text recorders OSU (abiword), Ian Bicking (ereader)
Media recorders Rob Savoye (Gnash), Erik Blankinship (Video), Josh Irwin (Helix), Gstreamer
Animation, cartoons Ignatz Heinz (Cartoonbuilder)

Conversion/Translation

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

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    ||  
 Spanish    || 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], 
 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 Map.

      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