OLPC Lending Library and Drupal: Collaborative Commons
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This document provides an overview of Sameer Verma's presentation on the OLPC Lending Library and Drupal content management system at San Francisco State University. It discusses the OLPC mission to provide educational opportunities through low-cost laptops, as well as deployments worldwide. It also describes SF State's implementation of Drupal for various websites and communities of practice.
OLPC Lending Library and Drupal: Collaborative Commons
- 1. OLPC Lending Library & Drupal Content Management System Presentation: Education Technology Advisory Committee San Francisco State University December 2009 Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor Information Systems Department San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
- 2. hint hint : underlying message Collaborative Commons: A Big Picture View
- 4. Somebody is finally thinking of the children! To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. — OLPC Mission Statement, It's an education project, not a laptop project. — Nicholas Negroponte
- 5. far and wide
- 7. July 2007 The first time I actually saw the OLPC XO laptop.
- 8. 1.4 million + See Google Maps Deployments worldwide Also see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Number_of_manufactured_laptops
- 9. Sabbatical leave Research agenda Teaching perspective travels
- 10. Jamaica
- 12. Resident artist in Khairat , India
- 13. Khairat school is India's first pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
- 14. Khairat school is India's pilot site. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India
- 15. Bhagmalpur project Location: Village: Bhagmalpur
- 16. District: Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
- 18. Bus Stop: Banuwadeeh School: Classes: 1 to 8 class
- 19. Children: 1087
- 20. Teachers: 11
- 21. Internet: none
- 23. What's a laptop?
- 24. Under a tree...
- 25. OLPC Headquarters (1CC) 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 27. Cost Electricity Networks Content Languages Pedagogy Age Security Theft Appropriateness ... The challenges
- 28. Cost US $140 at the factory My Lenovo Thinkpad cost me > US $2500
- 30. Yo Yo Charger http://www.potenco.com/products
- 31. Hand Crank Charger http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank
- 32. Pedal power OLPC Afghanistan http://www.olpc.af/images/HPM/dscf1324.jpg
- 33. Solar Panel http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Product_News#Solar_Panels 5 Watt/14Volt panel
- 35. Networks Offline technology Rise of the Sneakernets High Capacity Solid-State Storage
- 36. Content Open content standards (SCORM, IMS-CP) Creative Commons English Wikipedia < 4GB 1.6 million books from the Internet Archive Moodle in tight spaces (yes, that Moodle)
- 37. Language Diversity Example: India has 28 states and 7 union territories The Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages 1. Assamese 2. Bengali 3. Bodo 4. Dogri 5. Gujarati 6. Hindi 7. Kannada 8. Kashmiri 9. Konkani 10. Maithili 11. Malayalam 12. Manipuri 13. Marathi 14. Nepali 15. Oriya 16. Punjabi 17. Sanskrit 18. Santhali 19. Sindhi 20. Tamil 21. Telugu 22. Urdu
- 38. Languages Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Aymara, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India), Bislama, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English (South African), English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Friulian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyol, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Marovo, Mongolian, Nauruan, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Papiamento, Papua New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Walloon, Wolof, Yoruba, pseudo L10n Approx. 90+ languages Tutorial: http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/452 Translate: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
- 39. Pedagogy http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Constructivism, Constructionism, Social Media, ...
- 40. school...to go
- 42. Educational device or trojan horse? Surprise! Its a REAL computer. It can do REAL computer things!
- 43. OLPC San Francisco Bay Area http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
- 44. OLPC-SF Deployments Exchange of ideas, plans, content, enthusiasm...
- 45. Deployments Afghanistan (Carol Ruth Silver)
- 46. Jamaica (Sameer Verma/Univ. of the West Indies)
- 48. India (Humaira Mahi & Sameer Verma/SFSU)
- 49. Senegal (Drew and Lick-Wilmerding Schools)
- 51. San Francisco (Starr King Elementary)
- 53. OLPC-SF and SF State University
- 54. In the quad...
- 55. On the student union...
- 56. OLPC-SF at SFSU Downtown Center
- 57. OLPC-SF and SF State University Meets once a month at SFSU Down Town Center. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea IMSA (student association) helps with organizing meetings, donation drives, translation jams http://imsa.sfsu.edu/ Engineering student started OLPC SF XO Repair Center See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair Internships?
- 58. Volunteers?
- 59. Course projects?
- 60. More...
- 61. hidden agenda
- 62. OLPC Lending Library New! http://opensource.sfsu.edu/olpc
- 63. Library Media Services has 10 XO laptops Loan to students, staff and faculty
- 64. HSS 127
- 65. You get: XO Laptop
- 66. Charger
- 67. Instructions Join the community!
- 68. the Drupal story... it began with a meeting with Jonathan Rood in 2000...
- 69. Home-grown portals - circa 2000 CE Homegrown Linux + Apache+ MySQL + PHP portal
- 70. the push for Drupal Drupal-based sites http://opensource.sfsu.edu (all things FOSS)
- 71. http://is.sfsu.edu (Departmental needs)
- 72. http://imsa.sfsu.edu (Student organization)
- 73. http://bie.sfsu.edu (Federal Grant)
- 74. http://southasia.sfsu.edu (Campus institute)
- 76. Analysis of CMS/Portals Varut Aphaisuwan's study and graduate thesis
- 78. Three contenders (Drupal had the highest score)
- 79. Drupal's growth OSCON 2005 - Presentation by Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal
- 80. Parallel efforts? Creative Arts
- 81. BSS Computing Recent events Kevin O'Brien
- 82. Bay Area Drupal Camp hosted at SFSU by IMSA ( http://imsa.sfsu.edu )
- 83. Community of Practice Drupal Community of Practice http://drupal.sfsu.edu
- 84. Meets once a month
- 85. A platform to share initiatives, techniques, code
- 86. Solve similar problems Different solutions Centrally hosted
- 87. Multi-site
- 88. Locally hosted, but centrally supported?
- 89. putting 2 and 2 together Purpose of these projects Supply-based or Demand-driven? Solving SFSU problems/opportunities Demand driven Tinkering with code Discovery-based Introductions Supply, meet Demand. Demand, meet Supply.
- 90. Map of projects Note the common underlying technologies
- 91. Commons Software: Free and Open Source
- 93. Infrastructure is commodity Hardware, Networks
- 94. Virtualization
- 95. Cloud
- 96. Collaborative A commons has limited scope without collaboration
- 97. Collaboration keeps the commons alive. Sharing ideas
- 98. Massive feedback loops Unless it flows freely, collaborative frameworks don't scale.
- 99. Brown bag it! Fostering a collaborative commons on campus Food and ideas go well together Host a Brown Bag session today!