OlpcMAP

Add Local Projects to the Map!

DRAFT instructions below -- help us make these friendlier to All by asking for help, thanks!

OlpcMAP lives at http://olpcMAP.net

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!

Open Source Effort

olpcMAP is written in Python and is hosted on Google App Engine

The code is gradually being open-sourced at http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net

Add issues or tackle problems listed at http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net/issues/list

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're already tapping:

 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
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/OfflineMap

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!

Attendees

RSVP if you'd like to confirm your (a) contribution and (b) spot!

• Walter Bender (Sugar Labs Executive Director, partial attendance)
• David Farning (http://ActivityCentral.org Executive Director, Wisconsin)
• Caroline Meeks (http://SolutionGrove.com Executive Director, partial attendance)
• Nick Doiron (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Marina Zdobnova (Russia, ChebVolunteer)
• Kurt Maier (OLPC Support Gang founding member, Indiana)
• Ben Sheldon (AmeriCorps, http://CTCvista.org, http://TransmissionProject.org, to be confirmed)
• Shirish Goyal (Bangalore, India, Accenture, remote attendance)
• Mark Battley (Toronto, Canada digital media/film educator & organizer, to be confirmed)
• Claudia Urrea (OLPC learning coordinator for Latin America, partial attendance)
• SJ Klein (OLPC Director of Outreach, partial attendance)
• Reuben Caron (OLPC global deployment support, partial attendance)
• Adam Holt (OLPC Community Support Manager)
• (Special Chicago guest/s from http://IITempoweringHaiti.org ?)

RSVP if you'd like 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