Summer of Content mentors
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If you are new to wikis, check out Wikieducator's excellent tutorials for an introduction.
- 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.
What do mentors do?
- Mentors...
- Provide advice and guidance to their assigned intern throughout the course of the project
- Introduce their interns to the community they are developing for
- Serve as a liason between their intern and the supervising mentor organization
- Write two progress reports on your intern's progress (less than 1 page each) - one midway through the session, one at the end of the session
The total time commitment is approximately 30 minutes per week, and everything can be done remotely via email.
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.
Andy Pethan
Sponsor organization: currently none
Email: user page
Languages spoken: English, minimal Spanish and French
Background: Interested in sustainable development work through entrepreneurship and appropriate technology. Spent a month in Guatemala with Community Enterprise Solutions, a organization that does this type of work. I am basically a freelance helper guy that would be happy to work with any project, especially those related to development or education.
