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- If you are an organization and want to participate, fill out the Summer of Content organization application and email your answers to
. - Create an organization profile by editing this page manually (click the "edit" tab at the top) or clicking the "Create an organization profile" button here:
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- Find mentors for your organization and encourage them to apply on the Summer of Content mentors page.
- Check out the projects on the projects page; add your ideas, comment on existing ones, and add your names to the projects you're interested in.
Participating organizations
Organization Name
Organization website: your-organization-url.com
Country:
Main contact name:
Main contact email: address (at) domain (dot) com
Organization description: 1-2 paragraphs on what your organization does.
Interests: Describe the types of projects you are interested in.
Special notes: Describe any special notes that people interested in working with your organization should know. (For instance, if you only work with people in a certain region, or can provide office space to interns near your location.)
Commonwealth of Learning (CoL)
Wayne Mackintosh is the main SoCon contact for COL. SJ Klein or Patricia Schlicht can be contacted when Wayne is travelling or difficult to reach.
The Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. In particular, they are the group behind Wikieducator.
COL will sponsor stipends for five successful project submissions for SoCon 2007. Applicants must be Commonwealth citizens or residents. You can work remotely (actually, we'd prefer to have people outside Vancouver join us) or in the Vancouver office if you live in the area, subject to available physical space at our offices.
Centro Open Source
Organization website: http://www.cos-la.org
Country: Lima-Peru
Main contact name: Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes
Main contact email: address (at) domain (dot) com
Organization description: The COS is an international center of research and development for FLOSS solutions located in Lima-Perú. Their activities starts on April 2007 with many projects in a brief called "Caja Mágica FLOSS" (Magic Box FLOSS). The director of COS is: Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes, old peruvian hacker since 1982 who starts in the "scene" with Commodore 64 with experience and knowledge in development, communications, electronics, etc., Alfonso is also "Research and Development Manager" of ICTEC SAC (A peruvian company of Perú for FLOSS solutions).
Interests: The COS currently has started 5 projects of their BOX:
- EduKT (Easy Multimedia Content Builder) - Currently on Beta
- AmiGO (Low Cost Robots) - Currently on Alfa
- ITv (Server/Client Solution por Interactive Television) - Currently on Alfa
- ScienTO (Scientific Cartoon-like simulator) - Planning
- Kidtz (Simple Electronics Kits for children with software included) - Planning
Special notes: All the projects are social and the license must be GPL and Creative Commons. Also the programming language used is Python and C++ for some cases. The mentoring will be in Spanish and some English.
OLPC
Organization website: http://www.laptop.org
Country: primarily the United States
Main contact name: Mel Chua
Main contact email: 
Organization description: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization created to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. We also encourage and facilitate the development of multilingual open content educational materials for use with the laptop, the formation of local community groups to work on the same, and ultimately the ability of children to develop their own open content educational materials for use with their laptops.
Interests: We are interested in the development of open content for educating children ages 6-16, the curation and packaging of existing open content collections for our library collection, running training and content creation events for local communities in developing nations, projects that actively encourage young children to create open content, volunteer coordination and recruitment, translation and internationalization, and the creation of non-verbal technical and nontechnical documentation, although we are open to suggestions for projects on other topics. Check our mentors on the Summer of Content mentors page for individual mentor interests.
Special notes: The main OLPC office is located in Cambridge, MA, USA. However, we have local groups and volunteers all over the world.