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groups page it seems like we should try to organize a cleanup effort as a number of pages, entries, and links seem outdated or non-existant.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 <[email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>> >>> -- >>> Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 >>> 529 4266 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Library mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Christoph Derndorfer >> >> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] >> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] >> contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] >> >> e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > -- > Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 > 529 4266 > > -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: [email protected]
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