Talk:Contributing content

Could the OLPC management please make this page an officially-maintained OLPC page so that if an educator or publisher arrives at this page after entering the url on a printed card the page carries only content of high-quality provenance so that the educator or publisher can quickly gain information of whom to contact and of how to make contact.

We are trying to make as many pages as possible publicly maintained; for instance, much of the content-sharing, aggregation, and distribution will take place through third party educational and editorial groups -- this should be a well-maintained page, but anyone involved with the content-creation process is welcome to add information to it. Sj 13:36, 6 July 2006 (EDT)

Availability via Download

Will the contributed material be available for public download? Or will you accept only material that are already available for download, and will make available an additional OLPC repository site for it? What license/s will be accepted? Thanks. - User:Raffy

The licencing is further discussed here: OLPC on open source software however it could be better organized to explicitly cover both software and content licencing.

Language vs Language

We need a way of distringuishing between the language of the material and the content of the material. For example, the Logo Challenges page, which happens to be in Spanish, should be categorized as Mathematics. Walter 16:11, 7 July 2006 (EDT)

There is something wrong with this page

Frankly, this page does not make any sense. Why does it exist?

First glaring problem is that it contains a mostly empty categorization scheme but there is no discussion of why the categories are this way.

Second glaring problem is that it has a Hindi dictionary mentioned on a page in English that seems to be targetted to all readers. I think that the dictionary more properly belongs on a page of Hindi content or on a page of content to be used in India.

Third big problem is that this page is missing stuff like Squeak. Given that Alan Kay is part of OLPC, one wonders what is going on.

And the final big problem is that this page will never work. How could we possibly fit all software donated to the OLPC on a single page.

Possible Fixes

1. delete all content in the categories
2. make a simple prose page that explains how and why to contribute content to the OLPC
3. shorten the page title
4. salvage a couple of the category items by putting them on a page of testimonials from people who support the OLPC. Or maybe just keep the testimonial bits on the prose page
5. create a page for non open-source content licensed for use on OLPC
6. suggest that the various country groups maintain pages with a list of software that has been localised in one of their languages
7. create a category for general purpose open source software that has been adapted to the OLPC. This covers stuff like AbiWord and Evince.