Non-software peer production projects

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 * Open Educational Resources
 * Open Textbook Projects
 * California Open Source Textbook Project
 * FHSST: Free High School Science Texts
 * Global Text Project
 * Open Textbook
 * Wikiversity
 * Adding,as well as organizing the content
 * Wikibooks
 * Connexions
 * Curriki (online open source curricula)
 * CK12
 * Free, customizable books for K-12 students/teachers
 * Flat World Knowledge
 * MERLOT
 * WikiEducator
 * Things to do list has many things they need help with
 * Peer 2 Peer University
 * ODEPO(Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations)
 * Contribute to the database
 * Find and share Open Educational Resources
 * ACAwiki
 * Computer Science:
 * Contribute to AcaWiki site development. For example: automate import from a journal (like PLoS) using existing import/export
 * Work with their partner, Semantic Mediawiki, to make improvements
 * Law:
 * Analyze copyright and licensing opportunities and challenges for AcaWiki
 * Technical Writing:
 * Improve AcaWiki documentation. For example, improvements could be made to one of the following pages:
 * http://acawiki.org/Posting_Guidelines
 * http://acawiki.org/Special:BibTeXImport
 * http://acawiki.org/AcaWiki:How_to_edit
 * Contribute summaries to AcaWiki.
 * Write news for the front page and mailing list
 * Social Science:
 * Usability study of AcaWiki: get 3-5 users to test site features such as 'Post a Summary'. Tell us what's difficult so we can make improvements.
 * Compare AcaWiki to another wiki community (such as wikiHow or a MediaWiki site). How can we make it easier for people to get involved?
 * Community Development
 * Social Networking for the site: be AcaWiki's voice on facebook, twitter, and identi.ca 
 * Meet with a group on the Berkeley campus--demo the site, show people how to read and post summaries at AcaWiki, and get their     feedback. (Usability: Ischoolers will be interested)
 * Management
 * Suggest community development approaches for AcaWiki. Could be based on observation and/or existing research about sites such as Wikipedia
 * Design
 * Test 2 or 3 alternatives for AcaWiki's visual design.
 * Librarianship
 * Contact publishers who aren't using CC-BY to ask about dual licensing and bulk import of abstracts
 * Use the open access list at SHERPA/RoMEO to suggest open access journals for automatic import of abstracts


 * The Open Knowledge Foundation


 * Strategic development projects
 * Wikipedia Strategic Plan
 * Wikipedia is asking for input in the development of a five year strategic plan by July 2010


 * Translation projects
 * Creative Commons translation
 * Dotsub video translation


 * Media projects
 * MusicBrainz


 * Science-related projects
 * Science Commons
 * NeuroCommons
 * Biological Materials Transfer Project
 * Registry of Standard Biological Parts
 * OpenWetware
 * DIYbio

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 * Unreviewed / Uncategorized links
 * Nothing here right now.