Talk:Curators and maintainers

Overall & Catalogs

• Library of Congress - Justin Thorp, Kevin Novak : language, topical, format curators.
• OER Commons [OERC] - Lisa Petrides, Amee Godwin. Collection & stamping. No paper, one update. ++ Music connections - Sippy Cups, Moog synth games

  Open Knowledge Foundation - cf ckan.net, repository/index of free content projects... similar to OERC but from a coder's / revision control perspective. not communicating yet w/the above.

• Curriki - Bobbi Kurshan, Josh Marks. Paper pending, one update.
• Connexions (8-college), CK12 (K-12), [Wikibooks]
• Communities: G-Literacy, Jessica Powell
• Community of Independent thinkers: [Minciu Sodas], [Andrius Kulikauskas]

Topical

Literacy, language learning

Todd Kelsey, coordinator.

• Literacy Projects : no papers, collection; network sharing. G, Karin Ploetz (Frankfurt LitCam)
• Basic works : Conall Ryan, MGH. collection; needs effort, bureau
• Basic tools : Ignatz Heinz (Avallain)

  language tools: Jeff Fleishman

Literature

• Internet Archive - no paper, need collection. Brewster K. children's collection. scanning? archiving. local expertise building. Alexandria, Million Book Project (China/India)

  Related support: Don Hopkins, bookreader & keys, SimCity

• ICDL - need paper, c issues, active disc,
• Logos children's library - need paper, collection.
• PDF collections

  Project Gutenberg (John Guagliardo). c issues... how to resolve?

  [zPDF collections]

• Google Books: Luke H, summer post

Mathematics

• Mathematica - c issues, hackability?
• LD Virtual Manipulatives - c interest; Utah State
• specific works from catalogs

Science

• Biology : E.O. Wilson Foundation (no paper, 1 update)
• Earth sciences (ChemProject WP)
• Agriculture & Ecology (formerly: Martin G, Michael J)

  EO Wilson, Calestous Juma, D. Rowe - temp support

Reference

coordinator: ...

• LOC's World Digital Library: paper pend, need curators, need update, lang support, national crossover. Justin Thorp / Kevin Novak.
• Encyclopedias (Andy Sisson upate?), Dictionary (Gerard Meijssen, Sabine, Erik update), Logos children's dictionary (no p / collection)
• Atlas (wikiatlas on Commons: community update?)
• Maps: Metacarta (help, code), Allan Doyle (EOGEO, advice), Adam Holt / Schuyler Erle (visualization via Meadan)
• How-tos : Felicity Tepper, wikiHow (2 updates)

  MAKE, Phil Torrone (need collection, guidelines)

  OLPC guides (Asher Miller, K Xu, et al. need collections)

Culture

coordinator: ...

• Museums and libraries : World Digital Library, Justin Thorp.

  Museum of Fine Arts : online collection

• Film : Godfrey Reggio (Anima Mundi, Qatsi trilogy), need coll, c confirmation
• Music : Jamendo, Antenna Alliance (1 update), Freemusic, Jon Phillips (CC) - need coll, timeline

Health

coordinator: ... (see Noah, Kathy, &c)

• Partners in Health - need collection clarification
• R. Wurman - need texts; via Mike
• WHO, AfricaBio - need texts, p
• UNICEF - need update (water/sanitation library; Chris Fabian)

Games

coordinator: Kent Quirk

• Josh Ellis - need flash contacts
• Chuck Norman - need c discussion (EA, SimC)
• Simulations : Concord Consortium (need activity), Don Hopkins

Computers, programming

coordinator: ?

• Development

  Yoshiki??, eToys - need squeakland collection

  Develop - activity, Andrew Clunis/orospakr

• Books - Wikijunior, need coll (wiki proj)

  No Starch, Intro to Python/Wikis/TCP/IP, Intro to Linux:

Trades and skills

• Pratham - need projs, curricula
• Avallain basic skills - Ignatz

Formats

• Wikimedia commons: Erik Moller
• Creative Commons style searches: jon @ cc
• Book players: Conall Ryan, MGH
• Books: Cormac Lawler (Wikiversity), Anne Schreiber (Curriki)
• Drawing: rgbpaint/officiana (Manu), Inkscape (jon phillips), etoys - Bert Freudenberg
• Audio: Jamendo - global collection of free music, license & quality checking. sink for Free Music Project / Antenna Alliance. balanced cc-by selection for OLPC children. Sylvain Zimmer
• Video: Peter Kaufman @ Intelligent TV, Jeff Fleischman @ Sesame Workshop

Tools

• Music: Barry Vercoe, Dr. B (Csound)
• Programming environs || Alan Kay (eToys), Rob Saovye
• Texts | abiword (osu + abi), Manu/dan/don (Xbook),
• Media | OSU, real (Helix), ?gstreamer-team (Gstreamer), Rob Savoye (Gnash), Erik B (Capture)
• Cartoons | Ignatz Heinz, Cartoonbuilder

Conversion/Translation

Todd Kelsey

• Format conversion | ffmpeg2theora, theorur (OGG audio/video), PG (crossmark),
• Text-to-speech - R Vergara, Gruppo Logos (human);
• Translation - Gruppo Logos, OmegaT (Sabine Cretella), communities (proz, GerardM, Og Maciel); Google (Franz Och); Meadan (Ed Bice, Schuyler Erle)

Other notes

Languages: Xavi, Antonio, Nalrawahi, Og Maciel, Bruno Magrani, Soufron, Suyesh, Don Osborn, Dwayne Bailey, Gerard M

by Geography: by coordinators

Recent notes

• Second Life - Cory Ondrejka working on a low-overhead port
• Stefan M - Moo cards...
• cc - Eric Steuer - licensing for kids (with Ryan Trinkle)

  cf also Jon

• Isshu Rakusai, nota. shirts and free shirt design.
• Hiroshi Tachioka, -?, testing in ed environment
• InfoQ - agile software dev: connection with volunteer coders
• Polish Free Textbook Project -- Wladyslaw Majewski. Free texts, localized.
• Global Lives -- David Harris. Stories (vid, aud, transcript) from around the world