Summer of Content mentors
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- Create a mentor profile for yourself either by editing this page manually (click the "edit" button on the top) or by clicking the "Apply as a mentor" button here:
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- If your organization is listed in the Summer of Content organizations list, email the main contact listed for your organization and notify them that you have applied as a mentor.
- If your organization is not listed, put "freelance" as your organization (or better yet, convince your organization to join!)
- 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.
Mentor applicants
Mentor name
Sponsor organization: Tell us which of the Summer of Content organizations you are working with.
Email: address (at) domain (dot) com
Languages spoken: List the languages you can mentor projects in here.
Background: Write your profile here. Keep it short; 4-6 sentences is a good length. Some ideas: location, background and experience, kinds of projects you are interested in mentoring, what you have done for your organization before, specific projects you are interested in. Link to external pages/sites as needed.
Lauren Klein
Sponsor organization: One Laptop Per Child
Email: Contact info on user page.
Languages spoken: English
Background: Interested in developing activities, lesson plans, and curricula emphasizing OLPC design features and learning principles.
SJ Klein
Sponsor organization: One Laptop Per Child
Email: Contact info on user page.
Languages spoken: English, German
Background: Director of Content for OLPC. Interested in localization, learning games, and distributed/synchronized wiki projects.
Wayne Mackintosh
Sponsor organization: Commonwealth of Learning
Email: Contact info on website.
Languages spoken: English
Background: Interested in eLearning and ICT Policy and developing free education curriculum by 2015. Works on http://wikieducator.org.
Joshua Mallet
Sponsor organization: Commonwealth of Learning
Email: Contact info on website.
Languages spoken: English
Background: Interested in Learning and Livelihoods and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
Patricia Schlicht
Sponsor organization: Commonwealth of Learning
Email: Contact info on website.
Languages spoken: English
Background: Programme Assistant for Joshua Mallet and Wayne Mackintosh
Adam Hyde
Sponsor organization: FLOSS manuals
Email: <adam@flossmanuals.net>
Languages spoken: English
Background: Founder of FLOSS Manuals. Interested in mentoring for FLOSS Manuals.
Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes
Sponsor organization: Centro Open Source
Email: needs email
Languages spoken: Needs languages spoken
Background: Loves the research and development on mostly all areas, main goal: go forward the FLOSS projects from Latin America, specially filling some miss parts in the world. Alfonso's Blog.
Mel Chua
Sponsor organization: One Laptop Per Child
Email: 
Languages spoken: English, American Sign Language (basic)
Background:Electrical and computer engineer with a strong interest in education. Interested in developing a frontpage and supporting materials for volunteer coordination and community-building, running a local Curriculum Jam or overall OLPC Jams development, development of non-conventional textbooks, webcomics. Also interested in accessibility, particularly for the hearing-impaired. A longer biography and contact information is available on my user page.