On 10/23/06, MBurns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to again ask about the process for getting articles/ebooks onto the Laptop. There is a professor who would be willing to donate an Introduction to Python Programming manuscript he has written, so I would like to help him along that path as much as possible.
That's good news; this is is just the kind of material we could use.
*What is the application process for people willing to donate works to the project? What categories of content wish to be filled? This seems to be loosely equivalent to writing documentation for other Open Source projects, and I am sure many people would be willing to contributed.
We are looking specifically for introductory material in literacy, mathematics, and logic; language learning; introductions to computers and to programming in general; thinking games; images and music.
We will have a public form up soon for people to directly upload materials; for the time being, see the request for content for submitting such a manuscripts.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Request_for_content
The Laptop will have a custom doc format for saving files and reading ebooks, from what I've heard. A slew of question pop to my head:
*Can the OLPC provide a wiki that hosts this content and let the public work on it? Presumably being able to export and use the custom markup style.
We are considering a wiki that reads and writes that format for this purpose. At the moment, anyone who wants to start collaborating on such materials can use the general OLPC wiki; much of the basic wiki markup will be the same.
A script to convert from the existing Gutenberg format will be helfpul. I don't know that anyone has started working on that, but the format spec should be in a sufficiently stable form to make a start at it.
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