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Overview

Globe as deployment map? Criteria for selection of 'successful' projects

Readers / Contributors Perspectives: Student, Educator, Parent, Relative, Politician, Administrator (school, IT), NGO (OLPC, Private School, Church/Faith Community, etc), Geek, Hardware Manufacturer, Software Developer, Community Organizer, etc?

Classroom lead in? After school deployments vs. fitting into existing curriculm, a long slow process here and abroad given politics and beaurocracy, e.g. standards of learning, etc... Make an Online equivalent so users changes and base templates can merge in Git like... As a Living Document, not just something to print and put on a shelf like many manuals, policies and procedures documents... Somehow make it Interactive? With Dynamic content? MindMap? As a Graphic Overview and sprint and learning process tool? Semantic web? connections? Automatically generate index/ references, bibliography?


Map Representative Deployments (opening page of book?)

Vague Character Graphics for a book/ process logo?

XO Symbol O Head = world globe? X building foundations from shoulders of giants? V future (link to clock bootup, implementation plan, and process) . vertex, current state of the art, time now, location, you are here ^ base

Logo with good stuff/deployments at each continent/ + green pastures for new deployments Map to OLPCorps Africa sites? User Group Locations Map Repair Centers

Key Community Success Stories Illustrated for diverse audiences (10p?)

Electricity, XO Hardware, Import/Legal Issues, Volunteer vs. Staff Teams, Finance, Sustainability (10p?)

Best Classroom Tricks & Tips using Sugar especially! (15p?)

Getting Started Guide for Absolute Beginners

This is where Yama will be helping, mostly :-)

The Big Idea is to get to the point that someone picking up this book would be able to use the XO for something useful right away and without too much pain.

Most clear goal: teachers who have had so far no contact with computers being able to use XOs for actual, real classroom work. Red.png Yamaplos 21:00, 16 August 2009 (UTC)