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QUESTION: How many organizations are within the lowercase "olpc" ecosystem?
- See also country and supporters + groups working with OLPC.
RELATED Question: Who are the primary contacts for the top few hundred of these groups? How do we normally engage them? How can we better communicate campaigns and other important events?
- exs: Todd Kelsey didn't know about olpcorps. M.Vota didn't know about the broadened CP.
- olpc : 1:1 computing for all children
- OLPC Association / Foundation
- Sugar Labs
- olpp : computing for everyone
- Gdium One Laptop Per Hacker ... http://www.gdium.com/group/58/home
- SkoleLinux merging with Extremadura (similar, accomplished western Spain project, tho only 2 developers)
- Educational and teacher tool chains for classrooms with computers
- Moodle
- Activism for development
- Taking IT Global and youth involvement
- UN youth caucuses and youth rights networks, http://unv.org
- Mozilla Education meets for public calls Mondays 11AM Eastern Time
- "Uppercase" groups like Microsoft's: Tech for Emerging Markets and Unlimited Potential
- Teachers with out borders
- Scratch Visual Programming (celebrating Scratch Day May 16)
- ( Aggregation of teacher's "e-learning" blogs like http://ahlness.com )
- "OER" Open Education Resources (compare "LMS" learning management systems), beyond http://CK12.org
- http://eyeos.com open-source OS/environment for schools
- Guardian's Learn.co.uk
- Intl/Japanese Pictorial/Pictogram system Bernie believes has much more (potential) than Esperanto, which has strong adult facilitation, even if Windows-based for now: http://www.pangaean.org (similar to the traditional http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss-Symbol and the more popular now: http://www.prentrom.com/ --Simon Schampijer)
Proposal/s
- <please link here anything that you think can address propagation or solution>
- [OLPC Eco-system]
- [1] Dell's new online community for educators?
More specific groups
Communities for creating class ideas and materials
- WikiEducator
- Wikiversity
- CK-12
- Curriki sponsored by Sun Microsystems
- working with Nortel's LearnIT.org
Educator networks
Book-creation communities and sites
Personal powerplants : solar and other power for individuals to run devices
Free software and hardware platforms
- Free hardware consortium
- Fedora, Debian
Classes of orgs
The /type/ of association is important. We can break this down into a few large categories:
- improving education
---> access to knowledge ---> empowerment to learn and explore ---> access to opportunity, jobs, &c
- technology for education
---> access to computing ---> 1-to-1 computing ---> online teaching and education networks
- pursuing activism and collaboration for <...>
---> education. ---> development work, poverty alleviation. ---> social improvement, conflict resolution
- free software tools
---> kernel and linux hacking ---> general free software development (of the whole toolchain)