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= About me =
= About me =
I coordinate some of the volunteering and participation here at OLPC as well as other Open Education / Open Content projects.
Known as Isforinsects on IRC (not ls for insects), short for Specialization is for Insects. It's a Heinlein thing.



== What I am responsible for ==
There are any number of things that I am directly responsible for or like to keep minders on.


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|style="background:PaleGreen; width:15%" | '''[[Flickr/account | OLPC's Flickr]][http://flickr.com/photos/olpc]'''
|style="background:BurlyWood; width:35%" | OLPC's account at flickr is to Broadcast photos from deployments. I upload most of the photos but I try to encourage others to upload there directly. I technically own the account, but it is a community resource.
|style="background:Lavender; width:20%" | ''Relatively low work to upload, describe and tag, but I would be willing to pass it on.''
|style="background:Tomato; width:20%" | Bastian from Haiti and [[User:Memolibre|Memolibre]] have the login info to the account.

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|style="background:PaleGreen; width:15%" | '''[[Health|OLPC Health]]'''
|style="background:BurlyWood; width:35%" | The OLPC Health project's goal is to add Hardware, Software and Content to the XO for Public Health
|style="background:Lavender; width:20%" | ''With no formal structure I'm organizing and facilitating current projects and volunteers at 1cc''
|style="background:Tomato; width:20%" | CJL and Arjun are the other two organizers

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|style="background:PaleGreen; width:15%" | '''[[Wiki analytics]]'''
|style="background:BurlyWood; width:35%" | This wiki has Google Analytics installed, it is used to track visits to the wiki
|style="background:Lavender; width:20%" | ''I currently generate semi-regular reports and use the information to direct improvements to the wiki''
|style="background:Tomato; width:20%" | [[User:Hhardy|Henry]] is also Admin, ping me if you want access to them as well.


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= What I do for the OLPC =
= What I do for the OLPC =
I am currently editing and formatting the [[Simple_User_Guide]]. I appear to be the resident [[Speex]] guy. I am also helping [[Colingo]] with their encoding process. I am also very frequently working on and for grassroots tasks. Organizing grassroots groups, and responding to an awful lot of grassroots emails. I have many other projects that I am working, but none of them are happening today (12-12-07).


== What I'm doing the next couple of weeks ==


* [[Librivox]] Bundle + [[Gutenburg]] html
:I am working on mostly non-technical aspects of the project. Mostly the processing of material and volunteering for somewhat related projects. I have a very strong interest in Social Media and I would like to leverage that for the community if possible.
** En + Es
* Wiki-commons [[Images]]
** Diagrams
** Bees!
** General awesomeness
** Atlas
* Flickr Images
** OLPC Deployments
* A video
** Peach via blender?
** Anima Mundi (too short of time)




[[Workflow testcase]]
=== Stop-motion ===
== Projects ==
The on-board camera of the OLPC (xo) needs killer applications. It has great video chat and picture taking abilities. But I think that needs an external project to be captured by the xo. I am working on creating a very simple how-to walking children through basic stop motion animation, using materials they should have in their communities. An admin from the wonderful WikiHow has offered her services on this, so the project will probably be hosted there and then ported to the OLPC.

: I was just thinking of something similiar earlier today. "xoWebcam" -- Linux 'xawtv'/webcam package sugarized w/GUI. It's got frame capture capabilities built in, with total control of 'motion activated' and sequencing. Just need to find a good/lite package for putting frames into a movie format :-) --[[User:Ixo|Ixo]] 01:29, 16 January 2008 (EST)
* [[Content Workflow]]
:: FYI, futzed around a bit, xawtv looks like a very likely solution, gathered some notes: [[User:Ixo/Project/Webcam]]
** Clean up ^ page
: Perhaps expand [[Animation#Stop_Motion]]? Also, a while back I saw something about a Pippy python example which took a single picture - might be something to easily build on. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 08:54, 18 February 2008 (EST)
** Create [[Content Licensing]] (re-licensing) workflow "explicit process for asking upstream to change license"
:: Yes, a good pippy example 'picture?' about grabbing an image and rotating it. So all the code is there, just have to build on it a but, and sugarize it. --00:56, 19 February 2008 (EST)
**: Add [[ALEX]] to the queue of ^
: re: killer applications - Did you see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opencv OpenCV]? This might be exactly useful for creating killer webcam apps. It's basically a open source image recognition library developed by intel - and has all the features: Object identification, Face recognition, Motion tracking, Gesture recognition, ... [[User:Crazy-chris|Crazy-chris]] 18:00, 18 March 2008 (EDT)
** Discuss the UN's OER workflow and wiki with Philipp

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* Restarting the OLPC Health initiative
** Emailing contacts from the Seattle Healthjam about participating
** Shepherding dev laptops for PATH in Seattle and getting them to join our board
** Making contact with Public Health Orgs from Norfolk Event to Participate
** setting up new phone conference for Health Org's participation


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* Creating and distributing [[Media from OLPC]]
* Videos
** Getting account(s) at [[Dailymotion]]
** Editing/encoding workflow
** Uploading [[videos]]
**: Editing and uploading a lot of photos from the past week
**: Uploading [[Presentations/May_2008_Country_Workshop]] videos to DailyMotion
** ''eventually'' creating videos (Vlog?)
* Photos
** Create new [[Flickr/account|Flickr account]] + wiki page(s)
** Create [[Photo Editing Workflow]]
** Gather existing photos and uploading (from Carla, Mike, etc)
** ''eventually'' Use for [[Posters]](?)

== Other ==
* Getting ready for the [[OLPC Hack Day]] at NYC Resistor on Sunday
** Emailing participants from the event in NYC '''Done'''
** organizing travel (with ankur, dan and Sayamindu) to and from NYC '''Mostly done, finalize Saturday'''
** packing additional materials to NYC

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* Prepare for [[User:Sethwoodworth/my trip to DC|my trip to DC]]
** Email Russ Reid (Johnathan) contacts from Norfolk trip
** Email Mike Lee about getting together
** Schedule meetup with Chris Testa of ushmm.org

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* Followup
** Send Forest Mars of [[MNN]] a coffee mug
** Send MNN's executive director an official [[Thank you letter]]

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== also need to ==
* need to document Ericsson contact


* Create [[Conference Booth Kit]]
** Putting together handouts
** Gathering demo machines
** supplying repair tools
** Getting power supplies
** prototypes (blanket solar, crank)
** swag?
** planning on packing it all for checked baggage (>50lbs) or shipping to event

''low priority''
* reminders : Tshirt for Support gang: Mongo happy now

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FYI, Just found [[MotionDetection]], via a link off of olpcnews.org/forum , maybe adapting this to an Activity is a solution ? --[[User:Ixo|ixo]] 03:10, 21 February 2008 (EST)
FYI, Just found [[MotionDetection]], via a link off of olpcnews.org/forum , maybe adapting this to an Activity is a solution ? --[[User:Ixo|ixo]] 03:10, 21 February 2008 (EST)
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=== Librivox ===
=== Librivox ===
I have volunteered for [[Librivox]] previously and really love their project. Not many people seem to be getting the Librivox recordings ready for the OLPC so I am starting to work on this. The materials need to be transcoded into Speex and trimmed as small as possible to save space. I hope to have some serious speex-fu by the time I'm done.
I have volunteered for [[Librivox]] previously and really love their project. Not many people seem to be getting the Librivox recordings ready for the OLPC so I am starting to work on this. The materials need to be transcoded into Speex and trimmed as small as possible to save space. I hope to have some serious speex-fu by the time I'm done.

=== French as a First Foreign Language FAAFFL ===
I am in contact with a French professor from Slovenia who has material to contribute to the OLPC. I am going to assist him in moving his existing work over to wikibooks, where it can be added to existing material. When the immediate material is processed, there should be about half a year of First Year French. I'm not sure, but I think it will end up being for a middleschool or highschool audience.

Once it is mostly complete at wikibooks, it can be picked up and placed on the OLPC (how I'm not sure, but people in-the-know have told me so).


=== Flickr ===
=== Flickr ===
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=== Social Media==
== Social Media==
Several avenues of social media could be leveraged for support of the OLPC. A myspace user could be created that reposts community news via bulletins and serves as a Trendy method of showing support (see CC's myspace). A simple Facebook application could be created that RSS a feed of OLPC news, or a RSS feed of new OLPC photos. And Flickr could be leveraged as a Meme or as a content source.
Several avenues of social media could be leveraged for support of the OLPC. A myspace user could be created that reposts community news via bulletins and serves as a Trendy method of showing support (see CC's myspace). A simple Facebook application could be created that RSS a feed of OLPC news, or a RSS feed of new OLPC photos. And Flickr could be leveraged as a Meme or as a content source.


Social media could be used to spread the word via Myspace bulletin memes and/or livejournal memes. Memes are self replecating ideas such as forwards or personal surveys that are passed on to one's friends. This isn't a very good description, but I will try to propose it later on when other projects are more fully formed.
Social media could be used to spread the word via Myspace bulletin memes and/or livejournal memes. Memes are self replicating ideas such as forwards or personal surveys that are passed on to one's friends. This isn't a very good description, but I will try to propose it later on when other projects are more fully formed.



== Material from commons ==
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Juggling


== Things I learned from Dan ==
* Dan is made of magic
* Dan can memorized Pi
* Dan has a magic hat

== Public Key ==

[[/public key]]

[[category:OLPC interns]]

Latest revision as of 21:39, 23 February 2012

User:Sethwoodworth/DFBV
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IRC Nick: isforinsects(isforseth, is4)
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SethIsDynamic.jpg


About me

I coordinate some of the volunteering and participation here at OLPC as well as other Open Education / Open Content projects.


What I am responsible for

There are any number of things that I am directly responsible for or like to keep minders on.


WikiPage Responsibility Level of commitment There is another...


OLPC's Flickr[1] OLPC's account at flickr is to Broadcast photos from deployments. I upload most of the photos but I try to encourage others to upload there directly. I technically own the account, but it is a community resource. Relatively low work to upload, describe and tag, but I would be willing to pass it on. Bastian from Haiti and Memolibre have the login info to the account.
OLPC Health The OLPC Health project's goal is to add Hardware, Software and Content to the XO for Public Health With no formal structure I'm organizing and facilitating current projects and volunteers at 1cc CJL and Arjun are the other two organizers
Wiki analytics This wiki has Google Analytics installed, it is used to track visits to the wiki I currently generate semi-regular reports and use the information to direct improvements to the wiki Henry is also Admin, ping me if you want access to them as well.


What I do for the OLPC

What I'm doing the next couple of weeks

  • Librivox Bundle + Gutenburg html
    • En + Es
  • Wiki-commons Images
    • Diagrams
    • Bees!
    • General awesomeness
    • Atlas
  • Flickr Images
    • OLPC Deployments
  • A video
    • Peach via blender?
    • Anima Mundi (too short of time)


Workflow testcase

Projects

  • Content Workflow
    • Clean up ^ page
    • Create Content Licensing (re-licensing) workflow "explicit process for asking upstream to change license"
      Add ALEX to the queue of ^
    • Discuss the UN's OER workflow and wiki with Philipp


  • Restarting the OLPC Health initiative
    • Emailing contacts from the Seattle Healthjam about participating
    • Shepherding dev laptops for PATH in Seattle and getting them to join our board
    • Making contact with Public Health Orgs from Norfolk Event to Participate
    • setting up new phone conference for Health Org's participation


Other

  • Getting ready for the OLPC Hack Day at NYC Resistor on Sunday
    • Emailing participants from the event in NYC Done
    • organizing travel (with ankur, dan and Sayamindu) to and from NYC Mostly done, finalize Saturday
    • packing additional materials to NYC
  • Prepare for my trip to DC
    • Email Russ Reid (Johnathan) contacts from Norfolk trip
    • Email Mike Lee about getting together
    • Schedule meetup with Chris Testa of ushmm.org
  • Followup
    • Send Forest Mars of MNN a coffee mug
    • Send MNN's executive director an official Thank you letter

also need to

  • need to document Ericsson contact


  • Create Conference Booth Kit
    • Putting together handouts
    • Gathering demo machines
    • supplying repair tools
    • Getting power supplies
    • prototypes (blanket solar, crank)
    • swag?
    • planning on packing it all for checked baggage (>50lbs) or shipping to event

low priority

  • reminders : Tshirt for Support gang: Mongo happy now

FYI, Just found MotionDetection, via a link off of olpcnews.org/forum , maybe adapting this to an Activity is a solution ? --ixo 03:10, 21 February 2008 (EST)

Librivox

I have volunteered for Librivox previously and really love their project. Not many people seem to be getting the Librivox recordings ready for the OLPC so I am starting to work on this. The materials need to be transcoded into Speex and trimmed as small as possible to save space. I hope to have some serious speex-fu by the time I'm done.

Flickr

Flickr is a social media site for the display and sharing of digital pictures. There is a need to see what from that vast repository of photos (many with a Creative Commons -by license) could make it to the OLPC. I've started a group [2] that will eventually be the home of this project, although what form it may take I'm not sure.


Social Media

Several avenues of social media could be leveraged for support of the OLPC. A myspace user could be created that reposts community news via bulletins and serves as a Trendy method of showing support (see CC's myspace). A simple Facebook application could be created that RSS a feed of OLPC news, or a RSS feed of new OLPC photos. And Flickr could be leveraged as a Meme or as a content source.

Social media could be used to spread the word via Myspace bulletin memes and/or livejournal memes. Memes are self replicating ideas such as forwards or personal surveys that are passed on to one's friends. This isn't a very good description, but I will try to propose it later on when other projects are more fully formed.


Material from commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Juggling


Things I learned from Dan

  • Dan is made of magic
  • Dan can memorized Pi
  • Dan has a magic hat

Public Key

/public key

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