[OLPC India] A mashup for community collaboration

[Arjun Sarwal]

Ajay,

This seems like a very interesting approach. I believe that the community
thus created would not only help to put together a big order as you have
mentioned there, but also enable many groups to collaborate on many areas
thereon - content creation, localization etc.

I'd suggest each entry on the map to also encourage putting down a link to a
page on the wiki  of the interested school/organization/individual page
where they could write up about what they are doing, their plans for
implementing etc.

thanks,
Arjun


On 10/27/07, Ajay Kumar <ajay at classapart.org > wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> In various forums, OLPC or not, a need has been felt and expressed for
> the OLPC community to be able to come together on wikis, forums etc. As
> one possible solution, some friends and I are creating a mashup [link:-
> http://www.classgrid.com/laptop ], using google's maps and feeds for
> those interested in just getting the laptops, and knowing others in
> their neighborhood.
>
> With this, one should be able to place a marker on the map displaying
> their physical location, contact information etc. for others near them
> to be able to contact them.
>
> I am looking for two things from the list.
>
>    1. feedback on the feature set.
>          1. Would you like something else to exist on the website.
>          2. Please do let me know what more could you need.
>    2. The XO child icons, the images at various zoom levels (home,
>       friends, neighbourhood), and the laptop images in orange and green.
>          1. We would like to place the XO images as markers on the map
>             for those who have expressed interest.
>          2. Unfortunately, my current virtualbox setup is messed up
>             since upgrade to ubuntu 7.10. So, can not boot up and take
>             screenshots to get the images.
>          3. So, if you have any of these handy, it would be great if you
>             could pass them to me.
>
>
>
> The system in a sandbox form is currently deployed on
> http://www.classgrid.com/laptop . Since it is a sandbox, feel free to
> add as many fictional entries to the database as you like. And you can
> use your google / gmail account to sign into the system to add and edit
> the entries.
>
>
> Would really appreciate your feedback and inputs.
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Ajay
>
>
>
>
>
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Arjun Sarwal < arjun at laptop.org>
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