Curators and maintainers

Content

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Creating Content

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Educational ideas

Activity ideas

Software ideas

Hardware ideas

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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.

Question: where to note organizational needs? For programming, &c.

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

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 Hutchinson	-
Individual authors/publishers (various)
...	Mathematics
Mathematica	Joy W	?
LD Virtual Manipulatives	Utah State	-
Books and works |
General	OERC, Connexions	...
LOC	...	...
colspan=3 | Biology
E.O. Wilson Foundation	Neil Patterson	Charles Smith
Nature images	...	Frans Lanting
Earth Sciences
Agriculture & Ecology	-	(Martin Gleeson, Michael Jensen, Calestous Juma)
Reference:General
Encyclopedias		Martin (1.0) Andy Sisson (snap),
Dictionary	-	Gerard Meijssen (OmegaWiki), Zdenek (...), Logos (children's dictionary)
Atlas	John @ Metacarta	Schuyler Erle?, Name.org (Adam Holt)
Reference:Other
WikiHow	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
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

Many formats: Ourmedia, Wikimedia commons, Creative Commons Search

       Wiki texts || Cormac Lawler (Wikiversity), Wikibooks, Anne Schreiber (Curriki)	
       Book 'Players' and similar formats || Conall Ryan
       Drawing || Paint activity; Inkscape; Etoys
       Photographs || Flickr, Charles Smith (EOW)	
       Audio || Librivox, freesound, ccMixter, Free Music Project
       Video | Peter Kaufman | Intelligent Television, Wikimentaries (BBS), Library of Congress, Jeff Fleischman (Sesame Workshop)	
       Animations || Beth Anderson, Bang Wong (Broad); 		

Tools

       Musical, Artistic || Barry Vercoe, Jean Piché, Manu Gupta (Tux Paint), 	
       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
       Cartoon creation | Ignatz Heinz | Cartoonbuilder

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, proz.com), GerardM, Og Maciel; Todd Kelsey (Google Translate)

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.

 English    || Amee Godwin (OERC)
 Spanish    || Antonio, John Condon, Xavi
 Arabic     || Nalrawahi, Adil Allawi? (Diwan)	
 Portuguese || Og Maciel (Ubuntu), Bruno Magrani	
 French     || Soufron	
 Urdu       || cf. Habib Khan	
 Thai       || Shankar, Suyesh  
 Smaller languages || Don Osborn, Ndesanjo Macha, Dwayne Bailey [Africa], 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).

      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