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
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!
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: