OLPC Sugar ecosystem

from the teamwiki

QUESTION: How many organizations are within our ecosystem?

See also country and supporters + groups working with OLPC.

RELATED Question: Who are the primary contacts for the top few hundred of these groups? How do we normally engage them? How can we better communicate campaigns and other important events?

exs: Todd Kelsey didn't know about olpcorps. M.Vota didn't know about the broadened CP.

1. olpc : 1:1 computing for all children

2. OLPC Association / Foundation
3. Sugar Labs

   olpp : computing for everyone

4. Gdium One Laptop Per Hacker ... http://www.gdium.com/group/58/home
5. SkoleLinux merging with Extremadura (similar, accomplished western Spain project, tho only 2 developers)
6. Edubuntu official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system designed for use in classrooms and schools
7. Qimo for kids desktop OS, based on Ubuntu

   Educational and teacher tool chains for classrooms with computers

8. Moodle

   Activism for development

9. Taking IT Global and youth involvement
10. UN youth caucuses and youth rights networks, http://unv.org
11. Mozilla Education meets for public calls Mondays 11AM Eastern Time
12. "Uppercase" groups like Microsoft's: Tech for Emerging Markets and Unlimited Potential
13. Teachers with out borders
    1. Contact page
14. Scratch Visual Programming (celebrating Scratch Day May 16)
15. ( Aggregation of teacher's "e-learning" blogs like http://ahlness.com )
16. "OER" Open Education Resources (compare "LMS" learning management systems), beyond http://CK12.org
17. http://eyeos.com open-source OS/environment for schools
18. Guardian's Learn.co.uk
19. Intl/Japanese Pictorial/Pictogram system Bernie believes has much more (potential) than Esperanto, which has strong adult facilitation, even if Windows-based for now: http://www.pangaean.org (similar to the traditional http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss-Symbol and the more popular now: http://www.prentrom.com/ --Simon Schampijer)
20. Open Learning Exchange (OLE) ole.org
    1. OLE Nepal
    2. OLE Bolivia contact: Yama Ploskonka, yamaplos at bolinux dot org
       1. Ayni Oruro prepares educational materials in Flash for use in several telecentres in Bolivia
    3. OLE Guide to Learning Innovations

Proposal/s

• <please link here anything that you think can address propagation or solution>

1. [OLPC Eco-system]
2. [1] Dell's new online community for educators?

More specific groups

Communities for creating class ideas and materials

• WikiEducator
• Wikiversity
• CK-12
• Curriki sponsored by Sun Microsystems

  working with Nortel's LearnIT.org

Educator networks

Book-creation communities and sites

Personal powerplants : solar and other power for individuals to run devices

Free software and hardware platforms

• Free hardware consortium
• Fedora, Debian

Classes of orgs

The /type/ of association is important. We can break this down into a few large categories:

• improving education

 ---> access to knowledge
 ---> empowerment to learn and explore
 ---> access to opportunity, jobs, &c

• technology for education

 ---> access to computing
 ---> 1-to-1 computing
 ---> online teaching and education networks

• pursuing activism and collaboration for <...>

 ---> education.
 ---> development work, poverty alleviation.
 ---> social improvement, conflict resolution

• free software tools

 ---> kernel and linux hacking
 ---> general free software development (of the whole toolchain)