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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.
  1. olpc : 1:1 computing for all children
  2. OLPC Association / Foundation
  3. Sugar Labs
    olpp : computing for everyone
  4. Gdium One Laptop Per Hacker ... http://www.gdium.com/group/58/home
  5. SkoleLinux merging with Extremadura (similar, accomplished western Spain project, tho only 2 developers)
    Educational and teacher tool chains for classrooms with computers
  6. Moodle
    Activism for development
  7. Taking IT Global and youth involvement
  8. UN youth caucuses and youth rights networks, http://unv.org
  9. Mozilla Education meets for public calls Mondays 11AM Eastern Time
  10. "Uppercase" groups like Microsoft's: Tech for Emerging Markets and Unlimited Potential
  11. Teachers with out borders
    1. Contact page
  12. Scratch Visual Programming (celebrating Scratch Day May 16)
  13. ( Aggregation of teacher's "e-learning" blogs like http://ahlness.com )
  14. "OER" Open Education Resources (compare "LMS" learning management systems), beyond http://CK12.org
  15. http://eyeos.com open-source OS/environment for schools
  16. Guardian's Learn.co.uk
  17. 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>
  1. [OLPC Eco-system]
  2. [1] Dell's new online community for educators?


More specific groups

Communities for creating class ideas and materials

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)