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Overview

OLPC is designed around the idea of the free sharing of knowledge. Our goal is to empower children to share and build on what they learn in every way imaginable. Local networks of laptops and school servers provide a platform for sharing both existing knowledge and new ideas. Each network, in turn, acts as a window into a repository of content larger than an individual school server can hold. Soon, children will be able to exchange materials with other children, schools, and collections around the world.

To determine what materials to include on our laptops and school servers, we rely on a global community of curators-- educators and other experts in their fields-- to identify and, well, "curate" collections of resources in each subject. We also enlist the help of coordinators to connect knowledge communities with each other, and with communities of XO users.

Each topic, medium, and language needs coordinators-- people devoted to tracking the proliferation of projects, collections, and related efforts. Coordinators determine what content is needed, and convey these needs to individual curators. As each topic grows in size and popularity, its coordinator should seek out additional collections, and curators for them.

Contribute

We are actively seeking to expand our network of curators and coordinators.

Curators are responsible for a single group, archive, or collection. They should be prepared to select content from that collection for two content bundles, a 2-20MB content bundle for downloading to XOs and a 20-200MB collection for each school server. They should also be prepared to create (or advise on the creation of) a child-friendly portal/lens for their online site and archive.

Coordinators are responsible for connecting individual curators to each other within their designated group, and responding to inquiries related to that group. Each coordinator should be prepared to devote 3-5 hours per week to this task. Note: If you are a new coordinator, you may want to set up a Request Tracker account (or list) for your group.

If you would like to become a curator or coordinator, leave a message on the talk page.

A list of current curators and coordinators is as follows:

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 (Ed Yuen, HSO)
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

Collection	Curator
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
Broad	Bang Wong
	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