[OLPC library] Someday we have to get organized (Edward Cherli

[David Greisen]

I won't be able to join you at 4:00, but I look forward to seeing the
redesigned site. We'll get the health site retooled next week based on the
main site as a template.

David

On Jan 31, 2008 5:12 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 31, 2008 12:52 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > I like this idea for redesign (and something that can propagate
> > through the Math/Health/Music pages...)
>
> I volunteer to coordinate the process.
>
> My experience includes
>
> * Teaching: English in the Peace Corps; Buddhism; preschool
> multilingual music; Chinese cram school; writing tutorials and FAQs
> * Software Development: I-APL, a math language for schools, including
> textbooks from Arithmetic to Calculus
> * Tech writing: Eleven years in Silicon Valley, documenting hardware,
> software, APIs for novices, engineers, sales & marketing, and
> management
> * Market Analysis: seventeen years writing about every kind of
> hardware and software technology
>
> I expect to be elected President of Silicon Valley LUG next week. (I'm
> the only candidate with a VP running mate.)
> I have started and run several non-profits, of which the latest is
> Earth Treasury.
>
> > For country-specific pages, perhaps we could make na example of Nepal,
> > including the server, classroom, and activity work they have been
> > doing -- since that is already openly available online (and being
> > discussed here).
>
> Also content in Nepalese.
>
> > We are reorganizing the wiki tomorrow afternoon (join us at 1600 in
> > #olpc and #olpc-content) through the weekend.
>
> I'll be a bit late joining you due to a prior commitment, but I'll
> have IRC on almost the whole weekend.
>
> > Please add to the redesign thoughts here:
> >     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Wiki_organization
> >
> > SJ
> >
> > On Jan 31, 2008 3:37 PM, David Greisen <dgreisen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Content - in progress: (an area for people working on each subject to
> hash
> > > everything out, post working documents, etc.)
> > > * Links to content-specific wiki-pages (e.g.
> > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health) *
> > >
> > > Countries: (area for people who are working on country-specific
> material, a
> > > place for people from content areas to come get country-specific
> answers)
> > >  * links to country-specif wiki-pages *
> >
> > The Participate page needs a second-tier of similarly clean pages for
> > {content, software, educators, students} with this sort of
> > information:  that would be a good model for layout and subdivision.
> >
> > > How to donate material
> > >  * Blurb with link to extensive how-to *
> > > How to contribute
> > > * Blurb with link to extensive how-to *
> > > How to translate
> > > * Blurb with link to extensive how-to *
> > > ------------------------
> > >
> > > I think everything currently on or linked to the content page could be
> > > translated into this structure.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > SJ
> >
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>
>
> --
> Edward Cherlin
> End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business
> http://www.EarthTreasury.org/
> "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay
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