[OLPC library] olpc-open and new ideas for olpc projects

[Samuel Klein]

Good ideas.  I updated a number of those pages; I could use help updating
the regional groups page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Regional_groups

Further suggestions or cleanup ideas for the Community page welcome.

S


On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <
e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Hi SJ,
>
> this sounds like a good idea though for it to work well the mailing
> list(s) would have to be easily accessible via laptop.org.
>
> At the moment you need to go through laptop.org -> about -> contact us to
> reach http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Contact_us which points to the *@
> laptop.org addresses going into RT and only below mentions the mailing
> lists. That's a lot of links to click for the uninitiated IMHO.
>
> Similarly the take action page on laptop.org (
> http://one.laptop.org/action/donate) emphasizes donations by this being
> the first tab one lands on. Even once you get to the "get involved" tab
> you're first landing on the Intern page which (a) probably isn't all that
> interesting to the majority of potential contributors and (b) leads to what
> looks like a very old page with 2009 / 2010 information (
> http://laptop.org/en/interns/).
>
> I tend to believe that the "connect with local volunteers" page should be
> featured much more prominently on the "take action" site, preferably as the
> number one landing page. Plus from there people should be guided towards
> http://one.laptop.org/community rather than the continent-based wiki
> entry (btw, I just noticed that
> http://one.laptop.org/action/volunteer#/connect-local-volunteers is
> missing Europe;-). Then in turn we should make sure that
> http://one.laptop.org/community is up-to-date and doesn't contain broken
> links (like the OLPC Poland one!). Plus I think linking to olpcmap.netfrom there would also be a good idea.
>
> I guess what I'm trying to say is that there currently are way too many
> steps that people have to jump through. Encouraging people to move to
> mailing lists such as olpc-open is really only one small step of what
> should be a much larger effort to make OLPC more accessible to new
> contributors.
>
> Just my 2 eurocents;-)
>
> Christoph
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A number of organizations and people are asking how they can work with
>> OLPC, driven by the recent publicity about the xo-3 and xo-1.75 . I'm
>> directing some of them to the olpc-open list.  Please help respond to
>> newbies joining the list and sharing their ideas; many have partnership
>> ideas or educational materials to share.  (We used to send more such people
>> to the private 'volunteer' and 'content' RT queues, but as there is rarely
>> anything inherently private about the requests, so let's try something more
>> open this time around.  It's been working quite well for Khan Academy,
>> which uses only public google grops/lists for such things.
>>
>> Giulia is the right person to triage serious business development ideas;
>> many of them just need to be introduced to the right wiki / list / existing
>> project or local project online.
>>
>> SJ
>>
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>> 529 4266
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>
>
> --
> Christoph Derndorfer
>
> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
> contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net]
>
> e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu
>
>


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