User:Sethwoodworth/DFBV

Discovery

Eloi

• Discover media; photo, video, stories; of classes, activities, materials, projects, children and families; from deployments, of our sucesses, and document the prevailing need for OLPC.

Discovery is a process of communicating with deployments, both gathering existing information (like photos from the field) and encouraging new media to be produced/recorded (like the Nikon Sponsorship).

Key Words

• Beauty
• heuristics
  • subth//wm???
  • review
  • critique

Factoring

Eloi/Morlock

• Describing projects as a series of tasks with measureable results and that are actionable.

There is little-to-no participation structure for OLPC projects. Software collaboration has established and well defined tools that are social and software that enable collaboration. Open Educational Content and other massivly distributed projects have such tools.

First: Massively distributed projects must be discovered and facilitated Second: Working on these projects must be encouraged and rewarded

Currently OLPC and olpc's community has a habit of collisions. If it appears that someone is working on a task, no one else jumps right in. But there is no established way of creating a project and then handing it off, or accepting volunteers.

Process of Factoring

The process of factoring might look something like this: 1. Someone thinks of a great project: Implementing Coloring books on the XO 2. Said someone creates a page on the wiki saying that this should be done and provides a short list of existing coloring book content

• • Under the current system step 3. would involve the page sitting on the wiki with no responsibility
  • Under the new system the page is either Orphaned or Owned (depending on recentness of updates). The Maintainer of the page will be notified if/when certain goals aren't met, or that certain important fields aren't filled in on the page.
  • The goal is to break the Project down into individual Tasks, what I call Factoring.
  • Some task may include things like: contact copyright owner to get copyright status. This is a task that an indivudual can do

Broadcast

Eloi

• Broadcasting is choosing and feeding media streams of Discovered and Factored information.

The technical venue of this information is trivial. There are certain categories that content falls into and examples of easy to manage streams of content:

• Micro-bloging: Services like Twitter and tools like identi.ca provide 160 character descriptions that can be subscribed via email, blog, cellphone and many other venues. This could provide quick updates about OLPC projects, links to larger articles, and pushing recruiting.

• Publish a quarterly update and publish online and also do a short print media run. Use it for community building and to have something on-hand to pass out at events.

Mid-Term Timeframe

Get control of Media channels CAA Projects

• twitter
• fbook
• myspace
• youtube
• websites (laptogiving)

Key Words

• Leverage
• Focus
• Inspire creation
• Amplification

Visualize

Morlock Analysis and presentation of consice vies of data, heuristics, process, stastics, rosters and top_100s. Think process of tracking and Barnstars.

Perhaps, most importantly, visualizations help to create focus and draw attention to critical areas in poignant and clear ways. Furthermore, it helps to quickly guide people through a massive amount of information. Whether it's someone looking for "the best" material, or it is for volunteers to get a sense of what's most in need of being worked on, or for a country to grasp just how many educational resources available to them (and perhaps, how many need to be translated), in any case, visualizations are useful and important.

Add quote from Edward Tufte (<http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/>).

Key Words

• Awards
• Barnstars

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wiggio? groupware

• ask how they would like to be rewarded
• sucess stories come from community and deployments
• fresh streams of new success for fb, blog, etc
• sharing the value of impact of a community

• Blog-o-sphere contribute newsletters for X area

Firehose Stopgap

Acknowledging and place-holdering emails for volunteers that we can't take care of at the moment. Show them progress, ask them to be patient by explaining.