Curators and maintainers

Central selection of interesting materials, even sample materials to seed local creation, does not scale. To enjoy successful collaboration, each topic, medium, and language needs curators – people devoted to tracking the proliferation of contributing projects, coordinating related efforts, improving quality, and teaching new contributors what is needed and what the target audience is like. As individual topics grow in popularity, their curators should grow in number and specialization. This curation is needed for dozens of projects; OLPC, with its attractive, universal, and near-term goals, is a beacon for volunteers.

CMQF: Completeness, Multilingualism, Quality, Freeness. Four values from 0 to 6, describing the status of known materials in a given group a) that we can point to, and b) that laptop users can use at no charge. Completeness refers to coverage of the topic, Freeness to access fees, licensing and reusability.

C M Q F      Group    | Group coordinator |  Contributing groups and their curators	  
				

Overall

2 1 1 4   Open education portals	 OER Commons [OERC] (Lisa Petrides), Curriki (Joshua Marks),
          Connexions, Wikibooks, Google Literacy (Jessica Powell) 

Topical

1 1 2 1   Literacy, language learning  | Todd Kelsey | Google Literacy Project, Karin Ploetz (Frankfurt LitCam), Carol S., Jeff Fleishman

2 3 3 3   Literature | John Guagliardo | Internet Archive, ICDL, Logos children's library, 
          Project Gutenberg.  Individual authors. 

2 1 2 2   Mathematics | Mathematica, LDVM, OERC

2 1 3 3   Science | Biology (E.O. Wilson Foundation, Frans Lanting) | 
          Earth sciences (ChemProject) | 
          Agriculture & Ecology (Michael Jensen, EO Wilson, Charles M.)					
4 3 4 4   Reference | Encyclopedias (Andy Sisson, Wikipedia), Dictionary (Wiktionary, Gerard Meijssen, OmegaWiki), Logos (children's dictionary)	

Atlas, Geography (WD, WikiAtlas; CIA Factbook, Allan Doyle (EOGEO), Adam Holt, Schuyler Erle) How-tos | Jack Herrick, Felicity Tepper (WikiHow), Phil Torrone (MAKE); OLPC guides (Asher Miller)

          National library search | WDL, OCLC, OER Commons

3 2 4 1   Culture | Museums and libraries : Justin Thorp (WDL), MFA.  
          Film	|| Godfrey Reggio (Anima Mundi, Qatsi trilogy)

Music & Art || Elizabeth Stark (Free culture, freemusic), Jon Phillips (CC)

          National culture & sport || Adam Brandi 

2 1 2 3   Health || Partners in Health, R.Wurman, WHO
          Prevention || 

2 3 2 2   Games || Ben Sawyer, David Edery, Josh Ellis		        
          Simulations || CC, SimCity

3 3 3 4   Computers, programming | Learning programming: eToys, Develop activity
          Books (WB: Intro to Python/Wikis/TCP/IP), No Starch Press (Intro to Linux) 	

1 1 1 1   Trades || Economics (Premal S, Kiva; ZB), Pratham (Business ideas, projects)

Formats

Many formats: Ourmedia, Wikimedia commons, Creative Commons Search

Wiki texts || Cormac Lawler (Wikiversity), Wikibooks, Anne Schreiber (Curriki)

       Drawing || collaborative Sketch activity

Photographs || Flickr, Charles Smith (EOW) Audio || Librivox, freesound, ccMixter, Free Music Project Video | Peter Kaufman | Intelligent Television, Wikimentaries (BBS), LOC Animations || Beth Anderson, Bang Wong (Broad);

Tools

Musical, Artistic || Barry Vercoe, Jean Piché, Manu Gupta (TuxPaint), Programming environs || Alan Kay (eToys), Rob Saovye

       Text recorders, readers & editors || OSU (abiword), Manu (Xbook), IK (Journal/eReader)

Media recorders, readers & editors || Rob Savoye (Gnash), Erik B (Video), Real (Helix) Other

Conversion/Translation

Format conversion || ffmpeg2theora, theorur (OGG audio/video), PG (crossmark),

       Text-to-speech || R Vergara (Gruppo Logos); to simplified language: Sabine

Translation || Sabine Cretella (OmegaT), GerardM, Og Maciel; WDL platform

Language and Geography

All languages should have at least one coordinator per country from country teams. By end of Feb, all should have one from outside even if countries are not cooperative. Green and red countries should have at least one coordinator (focusing on local organization coordination, not content per se).

Languages

• English || Amee Godwin (OERC)
• Spanish || AB, John Condon
• Arabic || Adil Allawi (Diwan)
• Portuguese || Og Maciel (Ubuntu), Xavi, Bruno Magrani
• French || Soufron
• Urdu || Habib Khan
• Thai || Thai team
• Smaller languages || Don Osborn, Ndesanjo Macha, Dwayne Bailey [Africa], Gerard Meijssen (many)

Geography

Geographic coordinators to help coordinate NGO and educator activity in that region; curators from specific regional projects (rather than specific subject areas).

      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