OlpcMAP

Add Local Projects to the Map!

DRAFT instructions below -- help us make these friendlier to All by asking for help, thanks!

To edit markers:

• Click "Edit Mode" on top
• Click marker
• Click "Suggest Edit"
• Go through editor pages to set information, icon, and photo
• At any point, click "Save Edits"

To add a marker (Automatically enters Edit Mode, too)

• Click "Join the Map Network"
• Drag the marker to your location
• Enter your e-mail
• Click "Plant Marker"
• Go through editor pages to set information, icon, and photo
• At any point, click "Save Edits"

Helpful Volunteers

Contact our Community Curators Team with suggestions for making your deployment's accomplishments more vivid!

To Do

Some of THE most important spatial media we need to welcome, are our established geo-communities:

  http://www-staging.laptop.org/map
  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Places
  http://www.openwijs.nl/referenties/olpc 12 Dutch-originated microdeployments, on 3 continents?
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments (already completed? move to "Inspiration" section below if so!)
  http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php
  Actual "landmark" stickers on paper/laminate map at the Kleiders' house, from http://olpcSF.org/summit 2010!
  OLPC SF Community Summit 2010: wider list of registrants
  http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&vps=1&jsv=286b&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108408553645876220956.00049038844650cba3cf0 (Jennifer Martino's Latin America & Caribbean deployment map!)
  http://groups.laptop.org
  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
  http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE#Events
  http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Tentative_POSSEs
  http://www.widernet.org/egranary/ (eGranary Digital Libraries AKA "The Internet in a Box" w/ 14 million docs each?)
  eg. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=110300756731284107900.00046b13c0e8e5f0f820a

EG. What attractive iconography best represents your own local community's best efforts??

  http://EscueLab.org  (Lima, Peru)
  http://olpcLearningClub.org  (Washington DC, , larger 427 × 306 pixel JPEG)
  http://olpcSF.org
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Southern_California_OLPC_Projects  (incl Google Map of local prjcts!)
  http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc_boston
  http://olpc.at  (OLPC Austria)
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC
  http://olpc-france.org
  http://olpcOceania.blogspot.com
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_New_Zealand
  (Uruguay's many strong groups have brilliant logos already; showcase these on our main page to spark others??)
  Etc!!

Inspiration maps & feeds

A Million Thanks go to these groups whose community feeds we've already tapped:

   http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/ (500+ kids/XOs)
   http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/australia/olpc_australia_xo_laptop_deplo.html
   http://bit.ly/c20CRz (OLPCorps Africa, 2009)
   http://www.olpccanada.com/content.php?id=17 / http://www.olpccanada.com/doc/OLPC_Canada_Schools_Map.pdf

Please write us if you have/want ideas for more dynamically illustrating the Human Vibrancy of your community, its teachers and its children!

Open Community Architecture

In a democracy, we are each others' infrastructure. Our geo-social fabric takes inspiration from:

• Dialogue between public and private community spaces
  

     http://theopensourceway.org/wiki/Communities_of_practice

• Good Faith Collaboration = people who share a passion to learn, by interacting regularly, and conscientiously

     http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Reagle/Berkman_Reading_Group

• Creativity = allowing yourself to make mistakes

• Art = knowing which ones to keep

• 1 Billion children who are tired of waiting!

MAP SPRINT: Boston Dec 27-31, 2010

Venue & volunteer-based housing details to follow late November!

RSVP if you're ready to confirm your (a) contribution and (b) spot!

Outreach

http://twitter.com/olpcMAP (beginning slowly!)

Please write if you want to help -- or just want fun announcements emailed!

Live Chat (IRC)

Please visit http://forum.laptop.org/chat and then type at bottom:

/join #olpcMAP
(then type a few lines, being patient if we're asleep!)

(That's the #olpcMAP channel on irc.freenode.net)

Curatorial Team

Don't hesitate to contact our great team of volunteer community curators:

Kurt Maier
Marina Zdobnova

Design Team

Nick Doiron
Shirish Goyal
Ben Sheldon
Mike Lee
Adam Holt