design sketch for content stamping; questions about browser plug-ins and UI

[Samuel Klein]

Primary needs are to give people who want to help curate or review 
materials for the XO an easy way to organize their ideas and projects, and 
to offer others a way to construct new views of material that has been 
curated.

An initial implementation can be as a wiki project, where people define 
groups, discuss how they would work and what standards they would use, 
start linking to how they use existing review, and rank educational sites 
and materials.

Secondary implementations:
  - as a web service that anyone can connect to
  - as a browser plugin
  - as a site extension for sites that already support ratings hosted on 
crank (crowdtrust, ratepoint, &c)

A database of the reviews (which should be simple, but can point to more 
elaborate individual reviews on other sites) and groups and users 
should be set up [on crank would be fine].

SJ


> I think any of the following (in no particular order) would help at this
> point:
> * Clarification of needs (SJ?)
> * Clarification of  timetable (SJ?)
> * Feedback on the proposal
> * Feedback on UI design and technologies
> * A prototype interface, or skeleton code for same
> * A prototype database (e.g. mysql on crank w/ the schema suggested in the
> wiki notes)
> I'm happy to try coordinating, and I hope to talk to Chris Bailey this
> afternoon
> about UI stuff.
> --Jeff
>
> On 3/18/07, MBurns < maburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 3/14/07, Jeff Keller < jeff.keller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I've written up some notes on the scheme SJ and I have been hashing out
>> > for certifying Wikipedia and other content:
>> >     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Content_Stamping
>> 
>> Looks good. This is something I would like to learn more about and get
>> involved with!
>> 
>> > Can anyone help with that?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> I know the Open Source Lab (note: I do not speak for them as a hole,
>> obviously) has been interested in ways of getting involved in more
>> projects for the OLPC, our web guys esspecially. Helping with the
>> framework is right up our alley, at a minimum.
>> 
>> >  (General feedback also welcome, of course.)
>> 
>> As mentioned in another email, I know many people have asked how to
>> become involved with the OLPC while lacking a coder background. I'm
>> sure many people would spend their volunteer time under this system,
>> in place of coding.
>> 
>> --
>> Michael Burns * Security Student
>> NET * Oregon State University
>> 
>