Curators and maintainers

Content

Philosophy

Creating Content

Curating Content

Educational ideas

Activity ideas

Software ideas

Hardware ideas

Help Translating

Library

Content network

Repositories

Collections

modify

Central selection of interesting materials, even sample materials to seed local creation, does not scale. To enjoy successful collaboration, each topic, medium, and language needs curators – people devoted to tracking the proliferation of contributing projects, coordinating related efforts, improving quality, and teaching new contributors what is needed and what the target audience is like. As individual topics grow in popularity, their curators should grow in number and specialization. This curation is needed for dozens of projects; OLPC, with its attractive, universal, and near-term goals, is a beacon for volunteers.

Coordinators can expect to spend 3-5 hours a week responding to email related to their topic, primarily connecting different curator groups and content projects with one another, and responding to or redirecting inquiries. If you are starting to coordinate a topic, you may want to set up a Request Tracker list and account for it.

Curators should target developing 2-20M content bundles for downloading to XOs, 20M-200M collections for school libraries, and child-friendly portals/lenses for their online sites and archives.

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
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

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	Bang Wong (Broad), 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