[OLPC library] Organizing by topic : Health case study

[Samuel Klein]

Health materials have had a surge in recent interest.  Using that as a
case study, we could use good templates for starting new navigation
pages for a given topic, leading people to all of the work and
projects related to that topic.  It would be nice to see a really
great health portal underway tomorrow as part of the wiki cleanup.
Some revisions on David G's suggestions:

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Content :  (specific wiki pages / collections / activities)
 - new projects (Special highlight for those just getting off the ground)
 - featured projects (Those that have gone through review; a rotating
look at the best in that category)

In use : (reports from the field, ongoing use cases, related research
/ collaboration)
 - notes and facets from specific countries
 - links to country portals or other material specific to that country
or distribution

How to get involved
 - links back to [[participate]] sections, places to list materials for upload
 -

* 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 *

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On Jan 31, 2008 3:37 PM, David Greisen <dgreisen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I, too, am having this trouble. I think we could significantly reduce the
> problem by changing the main content page,
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Content. The content page gives no indication as
> to the current status of content on olpc. I suggest that the page be
> reformatted to something like:
>
> ------------------------
>
> 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 *
>
> Content - finalized (material that is ready to ship)
> * table of completed content *
>
> 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.
>
>  Comments? Criticisms? other suggestions?
>
> David Greisen
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 2:09 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > Ed,
> >
> > I really struggle w/ this myself. I have a lot of trouble communicating
> > what we are doing in Nepal and finding out what others are up to. We
> > need to facilitate better communication b/w the pilot countries, OLPC,
> > and volunteers. I suspect that the solution is only partly technical.
> > OLPC really needs a full-time community manager. SJ currently is the
> > community manager and director of Content. He just has way too much on
> > his plate.
> >
> > OLPC should really consider hiring a full-time Community Manager. That
> > person would need to understand both the open-source hacker community
> > and field educators who don't use IRC, wikis, etc. but really care about
> > kids.
> >
> > --
> > Bryan W. Berry
> > External Relations Manager
> > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
> >
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:27:38 -0800
> > From: "Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [OLPC library] Someday we have to get organized
> > To: "OLPC Library list" <library at lists.laptop.org>
> > Message-ID:
> >        <e574f6eb0801301527s42f1115ek5e3182d1e3d7927f at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> >
> > I'm having trouble between this list and the Wiki just finding out
> > who's involved and what's going on. We also need some way to get
> > information from children with laptops about the "user experience".
> > Better still, we need to bring children into this conversation and
> > into the writing projects.
> >
> > Could we talk about how to provide better information for each other?
> >
> > --
> > 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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