User talk:Lauren

Welcome to the wiki!

Welcome to the One Laptop per Child wiki. Please make yourself at home; read through the Table of Contents and FAQ, and take a look around. If you need a general wiki-tutorial, Wikieducator has some excellent ones.

Some possible pages of interest:

• Pictures
• Ask OLPC a Question
• OS images for emulation
• Rollout and community building ideas

Feel free to leave me a note on my talk page if you have further questions or need help finding your way around.

Cheers, Sj

Contact lists

I'm making you a teamwiki account; see also curators and coordinators for topical divisions.

Code currently gets packaged up as Activity Bundles (design guidelines); content contributors can fill out a content information form.

substing and templates

Try {{subst:templatename}} to insert a template's content into a wikipage. Template:Content_submission will take you to the template itself (square brackets is a direct link, curly braces a template/transclude link)Sj talk 16:28, 23 May 2007 (EDT)

Internships and Infoboxen

Infoboxen: examples

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussolini
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC

Internships: how to syndicate?

• User:Bnardone/Internship
• http://olpcnepal.org/

teacher mailing lists and contacts

I'm pulling addresses together to make a mailing list for t2t discussions, which you should join; let's draft a first email to it tomorrow and mention what you'd like to hear about first. We can start the draft on-wiki... Here's the Thai trial notes from earlier in the month. Sj talk 19:59, 23 May 2007 (EDT)

Tutorials

Wikieducator has some good ones...

also, see your talk page for another welcome note. something to include in the canonical welcome template? Sj talk

Pingback from Mel

Got your message, Lauren - would love to talk. I'll be back in Cambridge starting June 6 so we should have plenty of time to meet each other. I'm catching up on a work backlog (just graduated from college) so I might be alternately quiet and spasming out content for the next few days, but drop me a line at mel at mel chua dot com (no spaces) and we can get to know each other - I'll be updating my project list soon but I'm very interested in hearing about yours, especially the howto guides, content submission, education volunteer ops, and volunteer organizing. --Mel

cool users:MNC

MNCharity has some interesting ideas, and is organizing parts of the wiki related to how to get started. 18.85.18.111 17:55, 29 May 2007 (EDT)

some templates

I worked out two templates, on for tagging some {{Pending|notes}} (which I took the liberty to splash in the page Educational activity guidelines). Feel free to remove it or comment on it. The reminder color is a bit harsh ;)

The other template (currently in the Sandbox—possibly to be named {{Task | blah | blah}}) is to allow for a more structured way to organize Tasks as mentioned in Participate. More whacky stuff can be done on the template, like automatic categories combining the category of a task and its time unit—ie: a specific category for Programming tasks that take days—but that may be pushing the envelope too far and may actually complicate things.

Either way, please let me know if you think it's usable (or has potential) so I 'graduate' it from the Sandbox. Cheers, --Xavi 19:37, 31 May 2007 (EDT)

follow-up in User talk:Xavi#Task Template

Glad you liked them!

I was thinking maybe to use a 'task' qualification for the 'automatic' categorization. Instead of categorizing under plain Programming or Other (last one could be messy) use something like Programming Task or Other Task (all sub-categories of Tasks).

Adding status and team members? Could be. It makes sense to know who's working on what and avoid nobody working on something... I'll add them. BTW, I've 'graduated' the template to Template:Task. --Xavi 13:01, 1 June 2007 (EDT)

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If you need any help with templates or ideas, please don't hesitate to ask! :) I think I can pull a template that would structure things in the form of subpages and links... We can discuss it in #olpc-content or other IRC channel :) --Xavi 11:43, 11 June 2007 (EDT)

categorization

The educators talk page has thoughts on organizing desires and audience needs.

Projects could also use some input from a few of the new tasks you're developing -- not activity-specific, but any focused project around the laptop. [[User:Sj|Sj [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]]]]

tasks

Open tasks and todos:

• Edit Patrol: recent changes, new pages
  
• General Cleanup: Category:cleanup
  
• Expand Articles: Category:stub
  
• Translation: Localization
  

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educator template comments

(on educator template and educational organization template) - good idea to make it a copyable wikipage instead of a wiki template, but should still be in template category. should have an educators category and an educational institutions category too. needs instructions for how to use, esp. for non-wiki-using teachers. this can be used as a base for the general "volunteer/user" template and "community group" template, should we generalize now? Mchua 17:19, 14 June 2007 (EDT)

Improving wiki experience for educators

Hi, is there a big picture for improving wiki experience for educators? User:Xavi and I were brainstorming on #olpc-content. Noting things like Educators isn't linked from the home page. And that the sidebar's "Learning parables" could be replaced by a link to it. And topical (and age?) categorization of resources for teachers. Thoughts? Anything folks can do to help? MitchellNCharity 13:00, 15 June 2007 (EDT)

Re "Don't want to link to Educators off the main page until it has more of a shape, but that should be soon.". I look forward to it. Though I was mistaken: Educators is already linked from the main page (in "What you'll find inside", labeled "content"). Leaving the question of replacing the sidebar's Learning parables link with a For educators link (or somesuch). Do we prefer showing each morning's visitors Learning Learning or Educators? I think Educators is already very much better. I also note the current standard for hanging off the sidebar is not high, witness Learning Learning, and the mess in Software. So I'm not sure waiting is the right model. The radio show is live, whatever its faults, but some listeners are being misdirected to the echos of an earlier, weaker act. :) MitchellNCharity 14:58, 20 June 2007 (EDT) (Feel free to delete this note once you've seen it.)