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including non-free additions to the XSL (3), existing digital libraries, and
including non-free additions to the XSL (3), existing digital libraries, and
any other materials.
any other materials.

== II. Community ==

Local group creation: A process for identifying and announcing an [[OLPC
user group]], including definition on a project page, identifying members,
applying for an email account and sending mail to the grassroots list.
: includes guidelines for interacting with local government, media, event organizers, NGOs, LUGs, and the like.

Official community groups: Guidelines for becoming an officially-recognized
[[OLPC community]], with public details about projects and members, eligible
for local receipt and distribution of [[community XOs]].

Laptop distribution: Guidelines for submitting a project, use case, or other
request for short or long-term use of [[community XOs]] to develop, test,
promote, research, educate or inspire on or with the laptops; guided by a
list of [[XO request guidelines]] that encourages community debate,
prioritization, and sharing of new projects. A process for regular
selection of projects and groups to receive laptops.

New language requests : Guidelines for making a [[new language request]] --
wiki, pootle, core library, mailing list, keyboard, IRC channel.


More to come, SJ


= Visual specifications =
= Visual specifications =

Revision as of 00:15, 22 December 2007

One-sentence specification list

0. Key

wiki pages and their style guidelines are all community-driven.   
{notes in curlies} indicate importnat items whose definitions may change.
* in progress.


I. Libraries and Activities

Library interface : A dynamic and searchable view of the collections and activities on one's XO, including data from one's Journal and from accessible online collections; including a way to add new collections to what is locally accessible, and a way to explicitly see and update one's local cache.

Contribution process : Guidelines and explicit forms for contributing files, bundles, or collections to be automatically-bundled to the [[global library]] and to one's local network; the former through interfaces on the Internet, the latter through the local library interface.

one global process; national addenda*

Educational categories : A set of top-level categories for early education, from the source at core library topics, according to guidelines for category priority, with a section for new category suggestions.

one globally. localized*.

XO core content : A set of bundles about the XO and other, filtered up via the featured content page, selected by the {OLPC team}.

one per language*.

XO bundle archive : A set of activity and library bundles stored on-disk, not quite as good or central as the core library but shipped on every laptop. Includes other featured content, bundles chosen for their compliance with the featured content guidelines

one globally. localized*.

Exemplary content bundles : Bundles covering a specific topic in broad, simple strokes, with links to originals and further information online, and clear attribution of authors and curators.

one for select topics (biology, picturbooks, &c). localized*.

XO core activities : A set of core activities that ships on every build (no distinction between 'olpc-maintained', 'etoys-maintained', &c), selected from the list at core activities by the {OLPC team}.

XO bundled activities : A set of activities included in the XO bundle archive, from the list of featured activities, selected for their compliance with featured activity guidelines.

XS school content : A set of free/NC bundles and large datasets for a school library, including all featured bundles; drawn from the [[featured collections]] list and guided by the relevant guidelines, in three versions:

(1) for a 1GB USB stick ( one per language )
(2) for a DVD ( one globally, many langs )
(3) for 150GB of disk ( one globally, " ", with
                                       regional non-free variants)

Global library : guidelines for contributing content and code to, organizing, and browsing the global library of collections of material produced by the XO network.

one globally, localized.

Local libraries: Guidelines for defining and linking to [[local repositories]] of libraries and collections designed for use with the XO; including non-free additions to the XSL (3), existing digital libraries, and any other materials.

II. Community

Local group creation: A process for identifying and announcing an [[OLPC user group]], including definition on a project page, identifying members, applying for an email account and sending mail to the grassroots list.

includes guidelines for interacting with local government, media, event organizers, NGOs, LUGs, and the like.

Official community groups: Guidelines for becoming an officially-recognized OLPC community, with public details about projects and members, eligible for local receipt and distribution of community XOs.

Laptop distribution: Guidelines for submitting a project, use case, or other request for short or long-term use of community XOs to develop, test, promote, research, educate or inspire on or with the laptops; guided by a list of XO request guidelines that encourages community debate, prioritization, and sharing of new projects. A process for regular selection of projects and groups to receive laptops.

New language requests : Guidelines for making a new language request -- wiki, pootle, core library, mailing list, keyboard, IRC channel.


More to come, SJ

Visual specifications

Bundles

Graphics

Controls

Services

Security

Activities