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

Tue Jan 10 22:48:34 EST 2012

Good idea. If anyone wants to take a stab at this and the set of final
choices....

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Hi Christoph and SJ, and all...
>
> What about a modified dichotomous key that a new visitor could go through
> to find what they were looking for?  I say "modified" because it would
> probably want to begin with more than 2 choices. So give them 4 or 5 (e.g.
> volunteering, getting sugar, Activities, etc) and let them choose one, then
> go from there.
>
> Caryl
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:23:43 +0100
> From: e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at
> To: meta.sj at gmail.com
> CC: library at lists.laptop.org; giulia at laptop.org;
> support-gang at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [support-gang] [OLPC library] olpc-open and new ideas for
> olpc projects
>
>
> Excellent, the flow already feels a bit smoother... :-)
>
> Brielfy looking at the regional groups page it seems like we should try to
> organize a cleanup effort as a number of pages, entries, and links seem
> outdated or non-existant. e.g. the OLPC Bulgaria URL doesn't work anymore
> and the corresponding page (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bulgaria)
> still lists Aaron and Tano as contacts for "OLPC Europe" (those were the
> days!). However I'm not sure whether deleting the entry from the list is
> really the best way forward here as I feel that ideally any cleanup should
> be accompanied by an outreach effort to engage and re-engage community
> members.
>
> Good night,
> Christoph
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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