On Feb 4, 2008 7:57 PM, Arjun Sarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've been working on restructuring the [[Health]] pages on the wiki and I'm > > working my way into restructuring the participate and volunteering pages in > > general. If we really want people to get involved, we need to better > > document what you're doing, what the work flow would be, what skills are > > required, and get the word out there.
> Thats some great areas of effort and is definitely really needed. I > was talking with Mika the other day and we do also concluded that > there has to be a clear mechanism for new volunteers to get > integrated. A good starting point would be a nice How to Participate > section on the wiki. The Netherlands page, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC-NL_people, is a good starting point for the other end: who is here, and what can they do, or what are they doing? > Also, Mika plans to make a few presentations at the Harvard School of > Public Health sometime in these coming weeks. The curriculum and the > projects that students are expected to take there are very similar to > some of the projects here. When volunteers and participants start > wanting to participate there should be some clear ways in which they > can start participating. Also, the current status of projects and > project plans if put up on the wiki, would really help. Have you talked to Paul Farmer and the others at Partners in Health, which is based at Harvard? > Last of all, if any Boston/Cambridge area volunteers would like to > help Mika in the presentations at Harvard, please contact Mika > directly (cced here) I'm not in Cambridge, but I can make suggestions on content. Have you looked at the Rx for Survival pages at PBS? When I do, dozens of ideas for laptop content and other programs come to mind. There is a link there for teachers. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/ Please ask the audience to volunteer to help with the Health projects in education, telemedicine, computerized medical records, and more. > best, > Arjun > > > > > > Seth > > > > > - Pascal. -- 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
