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

[Edward Cherlin]

On Jan 31, 2008 12:37 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.

It does answer part of one of my questions through the link to
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Curators_and_coordinators.

> 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.)

Linked to a separate page for each project where people can put links
to their User: pages.

> * 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 *

A set of Wiki pages with an overview in English and all target
languages, and links to projects in and for each target language.

> Content - finalized (material that is ready to ship)
> * table of completed content *

Links to pages on content categories, and individual items or bundles.
Each such page should give contact information, and at least a short
blurb on what is in it, and how it implements Constructionist
educational philosophy.

> 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 *

Goody! More docs!

> ------------------------
>
> I think everything currently on or linked to the content page could be
> translated into this structure.
>
>  Comments? Criticisms? other suggestions?

Thanks.

We can take a look at some other sites such as SourceForge and Amazon
to see what would work for us in terms of organizing standard
subtopics.

I'm thinking about mapping tools for the Wiki also.
http://cmap.ihmc.us/ for example. Has anybody used such tools? Are
there any that would crawl a Wiki and then diagram all of its links
and organize topic clusters? (See the game gplanarity for a fun
demonstration of the nature of the problem. I'm currently on level
181.)

> 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:
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> >
> > 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


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