User:Sethwoodworth
User:Sethwoodworth/DFBV OLPC:News/August_12,_2008
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About me
I coordinate some of the volunteering and participation here at OLPC as well as other Open Education / Open Content projects.
What I am responsible for
There are any number of things that I am directly responsible for or like to keep minders on.
| WikiPage | Responsibility | Level of commitment | There is another...
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| OLPC's Flickr | OLPC's account at flickr is to Broadcast photos from deployments. I upload most of the photos but I try to encourage others to upload there directly. I technically own the account, but it is a community resource. | Relatively low work to upload, describe and tag, but I would be willing to pass it on. | Bastian from Haiti and Memolibre have the login info to the account. |
| OLPC Health | The OLPC Health project's goal is to add Hardware, Software and Content to the XO for Public Health | With no formal structure I'm organizing and facilitating current projects and volunteers at 1cc | CJL and Arjun are the other two organizers
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What I do for the OLPC
Projects
- Content Workflow
- Clean up ^ page
- Create Content Licensing (re-licensing) workflow "explicit process for asking upstream to change license"
- Add ALEX to the queue of ^
- Discuss the UN's OER workflow and wiki with Philipp
- Restarting the OLPC Health initiative
- Emailing contacts from the Seattle Healthjam about participating
- Shepherding dev laptops for PATH in Seattle and getting them to join our board
- Making contact with Public Health Orgs from Norfolk Event to Participate
- setting up new phone conference for Health Org's participation
- Creating and distributing Media from OLPC
- Videos
- Getting account(s) at Dailymotion
- Editing/encoding workflow
- Uploading videos
- Editing and uploading a lot of photos from the past week
- Uploading Presentations/May_2008_Country_Workshop videos to DailyMotion
- eventually creating videos (Vlog?)
- Photos
- Create new Flickr account + wiki page(s)
- Create Photo Editing Workflow
- Gather existing photos and uploading (from Carla, Mike, etc)
- eventually Use for Posters(?)
Other
- Getting ready for the OLPC Hack Day at NYC Resistor on Sunday
- Emailing participants from the event in NYC Done
- organizing travel (with ankur, dan and Saymandu) to and from NYC Mostly done, finalize Saturday
- packing additional materials to NYC
- Prepare for my trip to DC
- Email Russ Reid (Johnathan) contacts from Norfolk trip
- Email Mike Lee about getting together
- Schedule meetup with Chris Testa of ushmm.org
- Followup
- Send Forest Mars of MNN a coffee mug
- Send MNN's executive director an official Thank you letter
also need to
- need to document Ericsson contact
- Create Conference Booth Kit
- Putting together handouts
- Gathering demo machines
- supplying repair tools
- Getting power supplies
- prototypes (blanket solar, crank)
- swag?
- planning on packing it all for checked baggage (>50lbs) or shipping to event
low priority
- reminders : Tshirt for Support gang: Mongo happy now
FYI, Just found MotionDetection, via a link off of olpcnews.org/forum , maybe adapting this to an Activity is a solution ? --ixo 03:10, 21 February 2008 (EST)
Librivox
I have volunteered for Librivox previously and really love their project. Not many people seem to be getting the Librivox recordings ready for the OLPC so I am starting to work on this. The materials need to be transcoded into Speex and trimmed as small as possible to save space. I hope to have some serious speex-fu by the time I'm done.
Flickr
Flickr is a social media site for the display and sharing of digital pictures. There is a need to see what from that vast repository of photos (many with a Creative Commons -by license) could make it to the OLPC. I've started a group [1] that will eventually be the home of this project, although what form it may take I'm not sure.
Social Media
Several avenues of social media could be leveraged for support of the OLPC. A myspace user could be created that reposts community news via bulletins and serves as a Trendy method of showing support (see CC's myspace). A simple Facebook application could be created that RSS a feed of OLPC news, or a RSS feed of new OLPC photos. And Flickr could be leveraged as a Meme or as a content source.
Social media could be used to spread the word via Myspace bulletin memes and/or livejournal memes. Memes are self replicating ideas such as forwards or personal surveys that are passed on to one's friends. This isn't a very good description, but I will try to propose it later on when other projects are more fully formed.