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 <[email protected]>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: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > 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 outdated or non-existant.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 <[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] > > > _______________________________________________ support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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