Curators and maintainers
| Philosophy |
| Creating Content |
| Curating Content |
| Educational ideas |
| Activity ideas |
| Software ideas |
| Hardware ideas |
| Help Translating |
| Library |
| Content network |
| Repositories |
| Collections |
| modify |
Overview
OLPC is designed around the idea of the free sharing of knowledge. Our goal is to empower children to share and build on what they learn in every way imaginable. Local networks of laptops and school servers provide a platform for sharing both existing knowledge and new ideas. Each network, in turn, acts as a window into a repository of content larger than an individual school server can hold. Soon, children will be able to exchange materials with other children, schools, and collections around the world.
To determine what materials to include on our laptops and school servers, we rely on a global community of curators-- educators and other experts in their fields-- to identify and, well, "curate" collections of resources in each subject. We also enlist the help of coordinators to connect knowledge communities with each other, and with communities of XO users.
Each topic, medium, and language needs coordinators-- people devoted to tracking the proliferation of projects, collections, and related efforts. Coordinators determine what content is needed, and convey these needs to individual curators. As each topic grows in size and popularity, its coordinator should seek out additional collections, and curators for them.
Contribute
We are actively seeking to expand our network of curators and coordinators.
Curators are responsible for a single group, archive, or collection. They should be prepared to select content from that collection for two content bundles, a 2-20MB content bundle for downloading to XOs and a 20-200MB collection for each school server. They should also be prepared to create (or advise on the creation of) a child-friendly portal/lens for their online site and archive.
Coordinators are responsible for connecting individual curators to each other within their designated group, and responding to inquiries related to that group. Each coordinator should be prepared to devote 3-5 hours per week to this task. Note: If you are a new coordinator, you may want to set up a Request Tracker account (or list) for your group.
If you would like to become a curator or coordinator, leave a message on the talk page.
A list of current curators and coordinators (in parentheses) is as follows:
Overall
| Group/org | Liaison | Curator |
|---|---|---|
| Open education portals | ||
| OER Commons [OERC]/ISKME | Lisa Petrides | Amee Godwin |
| Creative platforms | ||
| Curriki | Bobbi Kurshan | Joshua Marks(t) |
| Connexions | Rich Baraniuk, Joel Thierstein | Raymond Wagner |
| CK12 | Neeru Khosla | Murugan Pal(t) |
| Wikiversity | Cormac Lawler | |
| Wikibooks | ||
| Campaigns and outreach | ||
| Frankfurt LitCampaign | Karin Ploetz | Barbara Roelle |
| Google Literacy | Jessica Powell | |
| UN Millennium Campaign | (game, texts) | |
| Archiving | ||
| Internet Archive | Brewster Kahle | - |
Topical
| Literacy, language learning (Todd Kelsey) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Colingo language learning | Ben Lowenstein | |
| Avallain basic skills | Ignatz Heinz | |
| Children's publishing | Conall Ryan (McGH), Carol Sakoian (Sch), Mcm | |
| Literature | ||
| Internet Archive | Aaron Swartz | Allison Druin, Kristine Hanna |
| ICDL | ||
| Logos children's library | Cinzia Bazzani | Zdenek |
| Project Gutenberg | John Guagliardo | |
| Google Books pdfs | Luke Hutchison | |
| Individual authors/publishers (various) | ||
| Mathematics | ||
| Mathematica | Joy W | |
| LD Virtual Manipulatives | Utah State | |
| Books and works | ||
| General | OERC, Connexions | |
| LOC | ||
| Biology | ||
| E.O. Wilson Foundation | Neil Patterson | Charles Smith |
| Glossopedia - children's encyclopedia of life | Gerry Ellis | |
| Nature images | Frans Lanting | |
| Earth Sciences | ||
| Agriculture & Ecology | (Martin Gleeson, Michael Jensen, Calestous Juma) | |
| Reference:General | ||
| Encyclopedias | Martin (1.0) Andy Sisson (snap), Gerry Ellis (Glossopedia - children's encyclopedia of life) | |
| Dictionary | Gerard Meijssen (OmegaWiki), Zdenek (...), Logos (children's dictionary) | |
| Atlas | John @ Metacarta | Schuyler Erle?, Name.org (Adam Holt) |
| Reference:Other | ||
| WikiHow | Jack Herrick | Felicity Tepper, Dvortygirl |
| MAKE | Phil Torrone | ? Josh Ellis |
| OLPC guides | Asher Miller? | Todd Kelsey |
| National library search | OCLC | (see also LOC, G!Books, Justin Thorp) |
| Culture:Museums and libraries | ||
| World Digital Library | Justin Thorp (WDL) | Museum of Fine Arts |
| Qatsi & Anima Mundi | Godfrey Reggio | |
| Culture:Free Music | ||
| Jamendo | Sylvain Zimmer | Tim Hwang / Antenna Alliance? |
| CC-music | Jon Phillips | |
| Culture:National/sport | ||
| Health (Ed Yuen, HSO) | ||
| Partners in Health | ||
| Richard Wurman | Mike Hawley | ? |
| WHO, UNICEF | ||
| Water & Sanitation | Chris Fabian | Terra Weikel |
| Prevention | ||
| AfricaBio | ? | ? |
| Games | ||
| PyGame | Lincoln Quirk | Ben Sawyer, Kent Quirk, .. |
| Second Life | Kent Quirk | |
| SimThings | Chuck Norman | Don Hopkins, ... |
| Flash works | Josh Ellis, Gnash-dev | |
| Computers, programming | ||
| Etoys | Alan Kay, Kim Rose | Bert Freudenberg |
| Develop activity | orospakr? | |
| Books | ||
| Wikijunior | zanim | |
| No Starch Press | Intro to Linux | |
| Trades | ||
| Pratham (Business ideas, projects) | India | |
| Kiva | Zvi Boshernitzan | ? Basic economics |
Formats
| Collection | Curator |
|---|---|
| Wiki texts (Cormac Lawler, Erik Moeller, Joshua Marks) | |
| Book players (Conall Ryan, Mcm) | |
| Drawing | |
| Inkscape | |
| Etoys | |
| Paint | |
| Photographs | |
| Gmaxwell | |
| Flickr | |
| Audio | |
| Librivox | |
| ccMixter | |
| Adir Abraham (ogg vorbis) | |
| Free Music Project | |
| Video (Peter Kaufman) | |
| Open Video Project | |
| Animations (Bang Wong, Beth Anderson) | |
Tools
| Tool | Curator |
|---|---|
| Musical (Barry Vercoe +1, Jean Piché) | |
| Programming | |
| Alan Kay | |
| Javascript | |
| Forth | Mitch Bradley |
| Text recorders | |
| abiword | OSU? |
| ereader | Ian Bicking (Adir Abraham) |
| Media recorders | |
| Gnash | Rob Savoye |
| Video | Erik Blankinship |
| Helix | Josh Irwin (Michael Burns for more contact) |
| Gstreamer | |
| Animation, cartoons | |
| Cartoonbuilder | Ignatz Heinz |
Conversion/Translation
| Topic | Curator |
|---|---|
| Format converstion | |
| ffmpeg2theora | Adir Abraham |
| theorur | |
| crossmark | PG |
| Text-to-speech | |
| (to simplified language) | Sabine? |
| Logos, localizations | Vergara |
| Translation tools | |
| OmegaT, OmegaWiki | Sabine Cretella |
| Ubuntu community | Og Maciel |
| Fedora translation toolkit | Marco? |
| Idiom | Chase Tingley, Todd Kelsey |
| Automatic translation | |
| Todd Kelsey | |
| Meadan, IBM | Ed Bice |
Language and Geography
Languages should have at least one coordinator per country from country teams. Green and red countries should have at least one coordinator (focusing on local organization coordination, not content per se).
Languages
Languages should have a coordinator from outside even where countries are not cooperative.
| Language | Curator |
|---|---|
| English | |
| Spanish | Xavi? |
| Arabic | Nalrawahi, Adil Allawi? (Diwan) |
| Portuguese | Og Maciel (Ubuntu), Bruno Magrani |
| French | Soufron |
| Nepali | Shankar, Suyesh |
| Urdu | cf. Habib Khan |
| Thai | |
| Smaller languages | Don Osborn, Ndesanjo Macha, Dwayne Bailey [Africa], |
| General | Gerard Meijssen [many] |
Geography
Geographic coordinators will soon be needed to help coordinate NGO and educator activity in that region; curators from specific regional projects (rather than specific subject areas). See Map.
| Region | Curator |
|---|---|
| US & Canada | |
| Mexico, Central & South America | |
| Central America & the Caribbean | |
| South America | |
| Africa | |
| North & West Africa | |
| Central, East & South Africa | |
| Middle East | |
| Europe | |
| Asia | |
| North Asia | |
| South & Southeast Asia | |
| East Asia | |
| Australia & the Pacific | |
| Global & Other | |