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!

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!

Become a Map Maker!

Please join and help cultivate our public discussion list! Send email to:

  olpcMAPmakers+subscribe@googlegroups.com 

Archives are here:

  http://groups.google.com/group/olpcMAPmakers/topics

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

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!

Global MAP SPRINT: Dec 27-31, 2010 in Boston

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)

http://blog.olpcMAP.net (contact Marina if you enjoy communications & can help!)

Or help in any other way, even if just asking us for fun/regional updates emailed occasionally :)

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