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:
--------------------------- 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 * ------------------------ On Jan 31, 2008 3:37 PM, David Greisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [OLPC library] Someday we have to get organized > > To: "OLPC Library list" <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Library mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
