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!

Talented social cartographers & implementers from the global community of One Laptop per Child (http://blog.laptop.org) and http://SugarLabs.org will fly to Boston Dec 27-31 -- to physically map our geo-social fabric of small/medium/large deployments worldwide. In completely new and different ways -- on and around CMU/Nick Doiron's rapidly evolving adoption/volunteering map:

   http://olpcMAP.net

Just like a Book Sprint (writing an entire book within a week, like http://laptop.org/manual) we'll beautify, rigorize and publish this community product within 5 business days!

We're looking for the very best talent globally to join us, to lay critical seeds Connecting-The-Dots of OLPC/Sugar/ICT4Education around learning/deployment/content knowledge, and Globally! Starting with one single student's eye-opening social visualization -- that has already powerfully captured the popular imagination, since its alpha-launch in October 2010, at the OLPC San Francisco Community Summit.

Attendees

Thank you to the organizing volunteers (email beautify@olpcMAP.net) already INvesting so much of their personal/family resources, flying in during 2010's Season of Giving. To celebrate a Cause They Believe In! That cause being to grow our community of face2face doers building 21st century educational opportunities for the world's poorest children, with new volunteer/internship opportunities that None Of Us Have Yet Imagined. We are thrilled to already have in attendance these powerhouse contributors:

• 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!

Schedule

PRELIMINARY! Please help us fine tune :

• Monday Dec 27 : like a real book sprint, we'll (re)finalize the "style guide" and "table of contents" (eg. who is coordinating each continent / ocean) so that the masses arriving Tuesday have Clear Tasks -- depending on their skillsets -- even where appropriate calling actual deployments and interviewing them on map. Cultivating photographic experiences, most important...
• Tuesday Dec 28 : dinnertime Peru film presentation thanks to filmmakers Audubon McKoewn and/or Mark Battley presenting in person
• Wednesday Dec 29 is hump day : evening social event organized by Marina Zdobnova (Russia) & Benaja Antoine (Haiti), around the power of intl volunteer exchanges in general, as the 21st century rearranges the possibilities (and the limits) of what ecotourism and voluntourism CAN really be
• Thursday Dec 30 : work til you drop, with free dinner of your choosing, for those who've beautified a major deployment or entire country/continent. Evening events around the town, including skating expected on Frog Pond, for those new to Boston!
• Friday Dec 31 our olpcMAP will be declared V1.0 at ***5PM*** and the MAP BEAUTY CONTEST WINNER ANNOUNCED. Telephone/Skype Video call to the winner, no matter what country they're in. Then we party thru the night!!!!!!!!!!!!

Venue

We anticipate using space provided by our gracious hosts, the OLPC Foundation, in Kendall Sq, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lodging

You need to secure your own housing and travel. Volunteers will do their best to match up rich volunteers with poor, just as in October in SF at http://olpcSF.org/summit, to make sure housing and a few select airfares are covered -- when truly exceptional talent is demonstrated. Please our public mailing list to make your case!

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