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. <br><br>David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Jan 31, 2008 5:12 PM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 31, 2008 12:52 PM, Samuel Klein <<a href="mailto:meta.sj@gmail.com">meta.sj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> David,<br>><br>> I like this idea for redesign (and something that can propagate<br>
> through the Math/Health/Music pages...)<br><br></div>I volunteer to coordinate the process.<br><br>My experience includes<br><br>* Teaching: English in the Peace Corps; Buddhism; preschool<br>multilingual music; Chinese cram school; writing tutorials and FAQs<br>
* Software Development: I-APL, a math language for schools, including<br>textbooks from Arithmetic to Calculus<br>* Tech writing: Eleven years in Silicon Valley, documenting hardware,<br>software, APIs for novices, engineers, sales & marketing, and<br>
management<br>* Market Analysis: seventeen years writing about every kind of<br>hardware and software technology<br><br>I expect to be elected President of Silicon Valley LUG next week. (I'm<br>the only candidate with a VP running mate.)<br>
I have started and run several non-profits, of which the latest is<br>Earth Treasury.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> For country-specific pages, perhaps we could make na example of Nepal,<br>> including the server, classroom, and activity work they have been<br>
> doing -- since that is already openly available online (and being<br>> discussed here).<br><br></div>Also content in Nepalese.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> We are reorganizing the wiki tomorrow afternoon (join us at 1600 in<br>
> #olpc and #olpc-content) through the weekend.<br><br></div>I'll be a bit late joining you due to a prior commitment, but I'll<br>have IRC on almost the whole weekend.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Please add to the redesign thoughts here:<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Wiki_organization" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Wiki_organization</a><br>><br>> SJ<br>><br>> On Jan 31, 2008 3:37 PM, David Greisen <<a href="mailto:dgreisen@gmail.com">dgreisen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Content - in progress: (an area for people working on each subject to hash<br>> > everything out, post working documents, etc.)<br>> > * Links to content-specific wiki-pages (e.g.<br>> > <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health</a>) *<br>
> ><br>> > Countries: (area for people who are working on country-specific material, a<br>> > place for people from content areas to come get country-specific answers)<br>> > * links to country-specif wiki-pages *<br>
><br>> The Participate page needs a second-tier of similarly clean pages for<br>> {content, software, educators, students} with this sort of<br>> information: that would be a good model for layout and subdivision.<br>
><br>> > How to donate material<br>> > * Blurb with link to extensive how-to *<br>> > How to contribute<br>> > * Blurb with link to extensive how-to *<br>> > How to translate<br>> > * Blurb with link to extensive how-to *<br>
> > ------------------------<br>> ><br>> > I think everything currently on or linked to the content page could be<br>> > translated into this structure.<br>><br>> Agreed.<br>><br>> SJ<br>
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><br><br><br><br></div>--<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Edward Cherlin<br>End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business<br><a href="http://www.EarthTreasury.org/" target="_blank">http://www.EarthTreasury.org/</a><br>
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>