LABDOO is a humanitarian social network joined by people around the world who want to make our planet a better place by providing those in underdeveloped regions (both in the developing and the developed world) a chance at a better education. The goal of the social network is to send unused laptops, ebook readers, tablet-PCs and any device that can be loaded with educational software to needy schools around the world using collaboration and without incurring any economic nor environmental costs. To set the ground, at Labdoo we call these unused computer devices dootronics, as in labdoo electronics. A dootronic is therefore any laptop, tablet, ebook or device in general that can be loaded with educational software and sustainably transported to a needy school. The world retires every year hundreds of millions of dootronics that are still in perfect condition. Simply by sanitizing and loading them with learning software, they can become a very powerful tool to unlock education around the world. How is it possible to collect unused learning devices around the world and sustainably send them where needed without damaging the Planet? Namely, through the combination of two basic building blocks: (1) technology/information sharing and (2) massive global goodwill collaboration. To achieve sustainable organic growth and prevent damaging the planet, we use a collaborative grassroots social networking system. This allows Labdoo to globally unlock resources which are found in excess capacity (such as unused laptops, travelers, know-how, goodwill, etc.). Labdoo and its approach to help bring education around the globe has been acknowledged by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as "promoting a valuable and sustainable contribution to the development of educational learning in foreign countries" How does Labdoo work and how can I make a contribution towards helping spread education? Through five simple steps:
All the above steps are oriented towards having the learning devices making progress to schools, following the various states S0, S1, S2, S3, T1, S4, S5 and S6, as illustrated in the following diagram.
As a social network, Labdoo allows you to do a lot more beyond the above basic steps. Among other tasks, you can join teams for a given subject of interest, share your experiences helping increase the global knowledge base, ask questions in the various walls, upload pictures to your walls or projects (pictures help increase transparency in the platform as well as the level of awareness), create your own tasks and manage them via a calendar, engage in chat conversations with other labdooers, access and contribute to the Labdoo wiki knowledge-base, and you can even create your own Labdoo hub to help mobilize dootronics in your local area. Check out the "things you can do to help spread education" wiki entry to get a quick summary of all the things you can do. Here are some quick final pointers:
Welcome to the Labdoo project and happy tagging to you! The Labdoo Team. |
* Labdoo is registered as a charitable non-profit organization in the U.S., in Germany, in Switzerland and in Spain.
When a dootronic is deployed at a school and a mini-mission is accomplished, is the Labdoo effort completed? as you probably guess, the answer is no. Labdoo's goal is to deliver laptops loaded with education to schools but also to ensure that all laptops, once they no longer work, are properly recycled to make a more a sustainable world, and many things can happen between the deployment and recycling time that could still require Labdoo's aid.
One of the big things we try to accomplish after a dootronic is deployed at a school is to ensure that it continues to run as healthy as possible to maximize its lifespan until it is time to recycle it. This effort is made possible thanks to the Labdoo Global Support (LGS) Team, a program run by Labdoo volunteers from around the world who provide online help to students, teachers and staff members of edoovillages in resolving their dootronic (laptops, tablets, ebooks, etc.) related technical questions.
If we were a company selling laptops, the Labdoo Global Support Program would be what people in the business world commonly refer as "After-Sales Support". Labdoo is however not a company, but a humanitarian social project. Not only that, as you know, Labdoo does not accept monetary donations and does not use money to run its logistical system, so we can't rely on the traditional business approach to support laptops deployed in the field. Instead, we apply once again the same strategy we use to solve every challenge we encounter along our way: global collaboration and distributed technology. Labdoo's Global Support Program works by collecting drops of goodwill from everywhere in the planet united to help resolve technical questions that may arise to users located in the most disadvantaged areas of the world. In a nutshell, LGS provides a wall-like interface that allows students, teachers and staff members of the schools that receive laptops to write their technical questions. On that wall, Labdooers distributed across the planet help resolve the posted questions. Since Labdoo has physical presence in the five continents, the end result is a 24/7/365 (all days of the year) interactive online system that provides both technical support to people from the schools while at the same time it helps to continue to grow the global pool of knowledge (knowledgebase).
This wiki describes how the LGS Program works.
Here is how the LGS workflow works:
This process ensures both (1) that dootronic users' technical questions are efficiently answered and (2) that we continue to build an online global knowledgebase of questions and answers that other users can benefit from.
Please notice the following when using the LGS support team:
Figure. The LGS Workfow. |
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[Please print and attach this sheet to your dootronic shipment to ensure that the recipient knows how to use the LGS Support system. To print this sheet, click on 'Printer-friendly version' at the bottom of this page. Make sure to print it using the double page option in your printer settings to minimize the amount of paper used. Also, please print only one copy of this document for each group of laptops shipped together.]
Dear recipient,
We hope you enjoy this dootronic and with it, we hope that you and many others can gain access to rich education content and applications. By delivering this computer device to you, Labdoo has accomplished a great milestone. Many people have worked behind the scenes to deliver this dootronic to you, starting from the person who volunteered to donate it, the person who sanitized it or the person who carried it to you. But the work is still unfinished. At Labdoo, we also hope that you can effectively use this device to boost your education career and we understand that along the way you may have technical questions on how to use it or how to resolve certain issues. Because of this, we have a program to support any of your technical questions via the Labdoo Global Support (LGS) Team. So from here on, as you use this dootronic, if you have any technical questions, please do not hesitate to ask them to the LGS Team. The next steps will explain you how you can do it.
Enjoy your dootronic and happy learning time to you.
The Labdoo Team
To resolve any of your technical questions, please follow the next steps:
Once you complete the above steps, your question is submitted to the LGS team and in short you will receive a reply.
Estimado/a destinatario/a,
Esperamos que disfrutes de este dootronic y, con él, esperamos que tu y muchos otros podáis disfrutar de acceso a ricos contenidos educativos. Mediante la entrega de este dispositivo, Labdoo ha logrado uno de sus objetivos más importantes. Muchas personas han trabajado entre bastidores para entregarte este dootronic, incluyendo la persona que se ofreció a donarlo, la persona que lo saneo, o la persona que te lo ha traído. Pero el trabajo aún no ha concluido. En Labdoo, también esperamos que puedas utilizar este dootronic con eficacia para impulsar tu educación y entendemos que a lo largo de su uso puedas tener preguntas técnicas sobre cómo usarlo o cómo resolver ciertos problemas. Para ello, tenemos un programa de apoyo a cualquiera de tus preguntas técnicas a través del Equipo de Soporte Global Labdoo (LGS). Así que de ahora en adelante, cuando utilices este dootronic, si tienes preguntas técnicas, no dudes en enviarlas al equipo de LGS para obtener respuestas. Los siguientes pasos te explican cómo hacerlo.
Disfruta de tu dootronic y feliz aprendizaje!
El equipo Labdoo
Para resolver cualquiera de tus preguntas técnicas, por favor, sigue los siguientes pasos:
Una vez completados los pasos anteriores, tu pregunta es enviada al equipo de LGS y en un breve plazo recibirás una respuesta.
Lieber IT-Spenden-Empfänger,
Wir hoffen, dass ihr mit dieser IT-Spende (dootronic) viel Spass habt und dass dadurch viele Zugang zu Lerninhalten und -programmen bekommen. Mit der Bereitstellung dieses Computers hat Labdoo einen weiteren Meilenstein erreicht. Viele Menschen haben hinter den Kulissen gearbeitet, um diese IT-Spende an Sie zu liefern, von dem IT-Spender, der es freiwillig spendete, den Helfern, die sie ehrenamtlich aufgearbeitet haben bis hin zum Flug-/Transportpaten, die sie transportiert hat.
Auf den Computern findet ihr Videotutorials und Manuals, um die Einarbeitung zu erleichtern. Bei weiteren, technischen Fragen zumComputer könnt ihr euch an das Labdoo Global Support (LGS) Team wenden. Die nächsten Schritte werden euch erklären, wie es abläuft.
Wir wünschen viel Spass und einen guten Lernerfolg mit dem Computer.
Das Labdoo-Team
Um eure technischen Fragen zu lösen folgt bitte diesen Schritten:
Nach den o.a. Schritten wird deine Frage an das LGS Team übermittelt und beantwortet. Bitte habt etwas Geduld, da dies in unserer Freizeit geschieht.
親愛的筆電收件者,
我們希望你喜歡這個筆電。希望你和許多人可以借由它獲得豐富學習內容和應用軟件。通過此電腦設備,Labdoo 完成了一個偉大的里程碑。。這 個dootronic 從捐贈、測試、到把它交到你手上, 很多志工在的幕後,提供了各樣的服務,但工作仍未完成。在 Labdoo,我們也希望您可以有效地使用此設備來提高你的教育事業。我們知道你很可能會在如何使用它以及如何去解決某些技術問題發生困擾。因此,我們設計了一個程式希望能通過 Labdoo 全球支援 (LGS) 團隊來解決您筆電上發生的技術問題。當您使用此 dootronic,如果有任何技術問題,請不要猶豫,問 LGS 團隊。接下來的步驟解釋你如何向LGS 團隊發問。
預祝dootronic 能帶給你快樂的學習時間,
Labdoo 團隊 敬上
一旦你完成提交 , 你將會在短時間内收到LGS團隊的回复。
Figure. Submit your questions by clicking on 'Start conversation' and filling in these fields. |
Cher/Chère destinataire,
On espère que vous profitiez de ce dootronic et on espère aussi que, grâce à lui, vous et beaucoup plus de personnes puissiez accéder à des contenus et à des applications pédagogiques riches. À travers la livraison de ce dispositif, Labdoo a rejoint un de ses objectifs plus importants. Tellement de gens ont travaillé derrière les coulisses pour vous livrer ce dootronic, parmi lesquelles : la personne qui s’est offert à le donner, la personne qui l’a assaini ou la personne qui vous l’a apporté. Mais le travail n’est pas encore fini. L’équipe de Labdoo espère que vous puissiez utiliser ce dootronic avec de l’efficacité pour promouvoir votre éducation et on comprend que peut-être, au cours de son usage, vous aurez des questions techniques sur comment l’utiliser ou comment résoudre quelques problèmes. C’est pour ça qu’on a un programme de soutien : l’Équipe de Soutien Global (LGS, selon son sigle anglais) vous aidera avec vos doutes. Donc, désormais, quand vous utilisez ce dootronic, si vous avez des questions techniques, n’hésitez pas à les soumettre à l’équipe de LGS. Les instructions suivantes vous montreront comment le faire.
Jouissez votre dootronic et bon apprentissage !
L’équipe de Labdoo
Pour résoudre quelconque question technique, suivez ces instructions, s’il vous plaît :
Une fois que vous ayez complété ce processus, votre question sera envoyée à l’équipe de LGS et vous recevrez une réponse à bref délai.
If you want to be part of the global pool of helpers in the LGS Team, please do as follows:
That's it, you are now part of the LGS Team. By registering to this team, any questions posted into its wall will be send to you in the form of an email, and if you know the answer to that question, you are most welcome to reply directly on the wall to help resolve it.
If you have a technical question, you can ask it to the LGS Team by following the next steps:
Anyone with a technical question is allowed to submit it via the steps described above, whether you are from an edoovillage or not. If you are from an edoovillage, do make sure you select the option "I am a student, a teacher or a staff member from an edoovillage" and fill in the name of your edoovillage so that the LGS team knows from which school you are messaging us. You can submit as many technical questions as you want.
Once you complete the above steps, your question is submitted to the LGS team and in short you will receive a reply.
Figure. Submit your questions by clicking on 'Start conversation' and filling in these fields. |
What it is:
Labdoo Km0 is a workflow inside the Labdoo platform dedicated to helping those neighboring schools right next to you that are affected by the digital divide.
Why it exists:
Labdoo Km0 is one of the workflows implemented by the Labdoo platform designed to operate locally at a global scale. The objective of this program is to eradicate the digital divide found in our neighbour communities by delivering educational laptops using Labdoo’s circular economy.
The Outcome:
Labdoo Km0 provides a very simple process that anyone can do. In just 4 hours of your time, you can change the life of a child and help significantly reduce the effects of climate change. Every time you recycle a laptop and give it to a needy child, you are:
How it works:
Step 1. Collect an unused laptop (estimated time 1 hours). Everyone knows somebody who has an unused laptop, possibly even you have one! Start by collecting the unused laptops from your friends and family and tag it: https://platform.labdoo.org/content/step-1-collecting-unused-laptops
Step 2. Sanitize the laptop (estimated time: 2 hours). Follow the Labdoo sanitation process to re-install a new operating system into the laptop and then load it with a very powerful educational package that includes the Wikipedia, Khan Academy and between 30GB and 300GB of high-quality educational content: https://platform.labdoo.org/content/step-2-sanitizing-laptop
Step 3. Deliver the laptop (estimated time: 1 hour). The happiest moment, identify a school or NGO in your local neighbourhood or village/town that needs laptops to fight the digital divide and deliver it: https://platform.labdoo.org/content/step-3-delivering-laptops-project
Enjoy the most unique and amazing human feeling of giving happiness to another human being!
Labdoo for Cities is a program that allows cities from around the world to implement the Labdoo collaborative workflow in a simple and sustainable manner. In a nutshell, Labdoo for cities works as follows:
In this step 2, volunteers from the sanitizing hubs pick up tagged laptops from the dropping point hubs.
While the above workflow has been demonstrated to be simple and efficient, cities can develop their own modified workflows based on their capabilities and needs. If you are interested in implementing Labdoo for Cities in your own village, town or city, please reach out to the Labdoo Team at contact@labdoo.org and we will help you get started.
Keep on reading in order to learn the specific (dropping point) hub protocol implemented by the Town Hall.
The following protocol describes the actions that need to be taken by the dropping point hub (Town Hall) when receiving laptops from the citizens and when handing laptops to the sanitation hubs.
Laptop management protocol for Labdoo Dropping Point Hubs
When your hub receives a laptop from a donor:
When your hub gives a laptop to a sanitation hub.
If you are implementing Labdoo for Cities in your village or town, it will be handy for you to distribute a flyer to the local villagers to spread awareness and to let them know that they can bring their unused laptops and tablets to their closest dropping point hub. Below you can download a sample flyer to serve this purpose.
There are different ways to distribute the flyer. In some cases, the Town Hall offers to print the flyer and distribute it using its own channels. This approach is very effective because the Town Hall has very well established ways to reach out to the local villagers (through the local newspapers, radio, TV, etc.). For instance, often the Town Hall can distribute the flyer via its local newsletter sent periodically to inform villagers about new initiatives. Other approaches include printing flyers and putting them in the local bakeries, bookstores, libraries or any place where they can be freely and easily distributed to passing by villagers. Be creative when carrying out your own outreaching campaigns!
To customize the following flyers with your own village/city information or to translate it to another language, please reach us out at contact@labdoo.org.
1. About the Labdoo CSR Package
When it comes to spreading education around the world, we can all be part of the solution, whether its by tagging or cleaning up a laptop, by contributing a trip to bring education to a school, or simply by spreading the word out to mobilize your community. There is a large variety of things (small, medium, or larger tasks) you can do to help out with our global mission.
Among all the people and organizations that are part of the global community, companies play a key role when it comes to helping those that are most in need. This package is specially designed to let companies contribute to the Labdoo cause and at the same time benefit from it as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy.
Two main reasons led us to the creation of the Labdoo CSR package:
These two reasons provide a win-win opportunity addressed by this CSR package. By participating, companies are both doing a great contribution to the community while helping increase their goodwill reputation providing an example for others to follow.
If you are interested in participating in the Labdoo CSR program, please contact us at contact@labdoo.org.
2. How Does it Work
Deep into Labdoo's DNA there is the notion of finding the right task for every person and organization who participates. This is very important for one key reason: long term sustainability. A task should fit your capabilities, not too small, not too large, just the right fit. That's why we designed Project Labdoo.org following a bottom-up approach. What does that mean? in short, it means that you get to decide what action you want to help with. There is a very simple principle behind this approach: you know your capabilities, your preferences, skills and passions better than anyone else, so you and your organization are most appropriate to make this decision.
As a result, the Labdoo CSR package is designed to be simple to understand. The package includes a list of actions you can do to help with the mission of spreading education around the world and you get to choose which ones you want to carry out. Tasks are organized into modules and depending on which module you implement, you get one of the various recognition levels: World Ambassador, World Activist or World Changer.
Our recommendation is also simple: start small, choose a simple initial task, implement it, learn from it, and if you feel you can, grow your level of contribution one step at a time.
3. CSR Modules
Companies can choose to implement one of the following three contribution modules.
3.1. World Ambassador Module. The main objective of this module is to spread the word out that Project Labdoo.org exists and to help mobilize local communities towards the goal of moving laptops and tablets to needy schools. This is for the most part an outreaching/networking package. As a company, you are very well connected to communities such as your own employees or other companies and simply spreading the word can lead to other great contributions. There are several great things you can do to help spread the word out as part of the World Ambassador module. You will be recognized with this contribution level if you do at least one of the following tasks:
The task of implementing the World Ambassador CSR module is in fact simplified because the Labdoo tools already provide most of the material you need to help spread the word out. For instance, you can freely print the Labdoo poster to help explain the movement, you can attach the Labdoo videos to your outreaching messages, you can print out the Labdoo CSR Flyer to distribute to your collaborators, or you can even create your own roll up by using the Labdoo roll up design. You can readily find all of these outreaching materials and designs in the Labdoo toolkit.
3.2. World Activist Module. The World Activist module includes the World Ambassador package plus additional contributions made directly by the company. In particular, your company will be recognized with this contribution level if one or more of the following tasks are carried out:
3.3. World Changer Module. The World Changer module includes the World Ambassador package plus additional contributions made directly by the company. In particular, your company will be recognized with this contribution level if one or more of the following tasks are carried out:
4. Other Special Contributions
Some organizations may be able to participate in Labdoo's CSR Program by contributing other resources not specified in the above packages too. This allows these organizations to better leverage their own specific capabilities, resources and know-how. Examples are organizations which can contribute other types of goods such as books, photo and video cameras, or large scale awareness campaigns, to name just a few. When an organization offering these special contributions wants to join the Labdoo's CSR Program, the application will be considered on a case by case basis. When accepted, these organizations will also be given one of the above recognition levels (world ambassador, world activist or world changer) depending on their degree of contribution.
Labdoo is a collaborative social network that allows us to efficiently sanitize unused laptops and tablets and bring them to schools. But it is much more than just a collaborative logistical platform. Above all, Labdoo is the story of each of us connected in serendipitous ways across continents and oceans, all of us united with a common theme: to help each other in the pursue of a better education and a more sustainable planet.
Along the way, we encountered some amazing stories that were so inspiring that we think it's important to share them with the world and to preserve them for the future. Moreover, we found that behind every one of our edoovillages and hubs there is an inspiring story of people working together to make our world a better place. For all of this, we created Labdoo Stories, a function within the Labdoo Social Network that allows edoovillages and hubs to write about and share their stories.
Your stories are so inspiring that we want to hear from them. Write your Labdoo story today and inspire the world!
How 'Labdoo Stories' work
Every edoovillage and hub part of the Labdoo platform has a story that speaks to the world: Why was it first created? What challenges did you have to overcome? What motivated you to create your edoovillage or hub? What are the anecdotes and inspiring moments of your story that are worth sharing with the world? How are the laptops helping you and other people to gain a better education and in which ways? Labdoo stories is a function inside the Labdoo social network that allows you to write and share these remarkable human stories.
Here are the steps you need to follow to create a Labdoo Story:
Once created, your story can be reached by clicking on the 'Story' tab found on your edoovillage or hub dashboard. Stories can also be reached by going to the 'Explore' tab located at the top menu of every Labdoo page and by clicking on the 'Labdoo stories' option.
Be creative and share your story! Happy writing time!
If you would like to suggest a school or a hub to write their own Labdoo story, you can copy and paste the following text and send it to them. This text is only provided as a template to avoid having to retype all the time the same paragraph, feel free to adjust it to the context of your own conversation with the school or the hub:
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Dear $PARTICIPANTNAME,
Thank you very much for the wonderful work you do in $COUNTRYNAME to help give a chance at education to so many students.
We would love to publish a brief story of your work as part of the Labdoo Stories Series released within the Labdoo.org Platform. We were wondering if you would like to write a brief description of your project and how it's using the Labdoo laptops to help bring education to your students. The story can be as short as 3 paragraphs with some pictures (or more if you'd like). Besides being published as a Labdoo Story, there is also a good chance that your story is also featured in the next Labdoo Global Newsletter which gets sent to all the Labdoo users and which can help bring more awareness about the great work you are doing. You can write about subjects such as: What challenges did you have to overcome? What motivated you to create your edoovillage or hub? What are the anecdotes and inspiring moments of your story that are worth sharing with the world? How are the laptops helping you and other people to gain a better education and in which ways?
You will find some examples of Labdoo stories from the following link: https://www.labdoo.org/labdoo-stories.
And in this page you will also find some additional information: https://www.labdoo.org/content/labdoo-stories
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach back to me. Thank you.
Best regards,
$MYNAME
Tag a laptop, spread education
Labdoo Team | www.labdoo.org
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Labdoo is a global social network platform, which is funded in part from the USA, and we thank you in advance for your financial support. To provide transparency and to better explain how Labdoo can be sustainable with minimum funding, this section of the wiki page is to provide an overview of Labdoo's financial health, past year's financial statements, and different money donation methods.
Labdoo, as a global organization, is present in many different countries. Each country has a separate accounting system to abide by the local regulations. Please get in touch with your regional hubs if you are interested in finding out how Labdoo works financially in your area.
In order to help us keep the Labdoo accounting clean, please fill in the Donation Form after your monetary donation. Our goal is to match but not exceed our annual predicted expense. Therefore, we depend on the donation amount information you fill in the Donation to confirm if the donation has been made correctly.
There are several ways to participate in monetary donations.
1. Company Contribution.
Labdoo is a US-registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Many companies provide employees the option to choose which charity they like to participate in for company donations. The name of charity and EIN number are provided as below:
Labdoo Inc
EIN: 27-3489966
92 Corporate Park STE. C303
Irvine, CA 92606
2. Check
You can write a check payable to "Labdoo" and send it to our mailing address:
Labdoo
92 Corporate Park STE. C303
Irvine, CA 92606
3. Paypal/Credit Card
Please visit https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=QEJKQMF5CKFF6
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The Labdoo Team
Contact information
Labdoo is registered as a charitable non-profit organization in the United States, in Germany, in Switzerland and in Spain.
President Labdoo USA:
Jordi Ros-Giralt
Address:
Labdoo.org
92 Corporate Park,
Ste. C303,
Irvine, CA, USA 92606
E-mail:
contact@labdoo.org
Labdoo is implemented mostly in PhP and JavaScript code. The source code is freely and openly available under the GPLv3 License. That means that you can freely download the code, install it in your laptop, modify it and contribute your improvements back to the community. The code is available as a git repository from the following link: https://github.com/Labdoo/Labdoo-2.0.
The current version of the Labdoo platform is based on Drupal, a free and open-source content-management framework distributed under the GNU General Public License. Its main features are implemented using standalone modules. This helps to keep the project modular, facilitating the process of managing, maintaining and collaboratively developing the platform.
The Labdoo source code is developed by software engineers who contribute their time out of goodwill and as a contribution to the social cause promoted by the project. We use the following Labdoo team to coordinate tasks, manage the software development project and communicate with each other:
https://www.labdoo.org/content/software-development/activities
If you want to join the Labdoo software development team, send us an email at development@labdoo.org. Anyone is also welcome to join by clicking on 'Subscribe to this team' under the Software development team.
About Project Labdoo
Labdoo is a social network that is designed from the ground up to serve a social cause. We like to call it an aid social network because the goal is not to make money, but rather to serve a social cause. As such, Labdoo has several properties:
As indicated, the code that runs Labdoo is freely available. In fact, you can install an instance of the Labdoo social network in your local computer if you want; you can copy the code, modify it, and improve it. You can also use portions of the code to create your own social network if you want to serve other social causes. The code is available from https://github.com/Labdoo.
This document provides a description of the features implemented by the Labdoo social network.
Follow the poster and learn how Labdoo works in a fun and visual way
We composed a poster that describes some of the main features of the Labdoo platform. You can access the latest version of this poster from this location. Keep in mind that the poster does not include all the features available in the platform. For a complete and detailed description of all the features, please read this guide instead. The poster should only be used to get an overall idea of the things you can do using the Labdoo social network to help spread educational laptops around the world.
Figure. The Labdoo Social Network poster |
At its core, the Labdoo social network is based around five types of objects: labdooers, dootronics, dootrips, edoovillages and hubs.
Figure. Labdoo objects and their relation. |
Labdoo users interface with the Labdoo platform by using their own account. If you have not created an account yet and would like to be part of Project Labdoo to help spread education around the globe, please go to the registration page and fill in the fields to create your own account.
Once you have created your own account and logged into the Labdoo system, you will be able to perform tasks such as tagging a laptop, registering a new trip (we call it a 'dootrip'), communicating with other labdooers, or write comments to the various team walls, among many other tasks. The types of tasks you are capable of doing depend on the role your user is given. The following lists the various types of roles a user can have and the tasks allowed for each role:
Anonymous user: corresponds to users who visit labdoo.org without logging into an account. These users can only visualize data (dootronics, dootrips, schools, hubs) but cannot create any object (like tagging a dootronic). These users cannot see any user information either.
Can do: visualize all objects.
Authenticated user: corresponds to the very basic labdoo user role. This is the role that a labdooer receives by default when registering for the first time to the system. This type of account allows users to perform all the base functions such as tagging laptops or registering a dootrip.
Can do: anonymous user plus tag dootronics, create dootrips, register to teams, post conversations and tasks to teams.
Hub manager: provides additional functions to manage hubs, including editing your own hub information, assigning new managers to your hub, or uploading pictures to your hub photo album. Most often when this role is assigned, the user is also assigned the edoovillage manager role so that the hub manager can also create and assign new edoovillages to the hub account.
Can do: authenticated user plus manage hub, upload photos to your hub album, create edoovillages, configure automatic hub notification triggers.
Edoovillage manager: provides additional functions to manage edoovillages, including creating and editing edoovillages, assigning other editors to edoovillages, or uploading pictures to edoovillages photo albums.
Can do: authenticated user plus manage edoovillage, upload photos to a edoovillage album.
Newsletter manager: provides additional functions to manage, edit, and publish newsletters issues.
Can do: authenticated user plus create, edit, issue and manage newsletters.
Wiki writer: provides additional functions to write new wiki documents. This role can create new wiki pages, edit existing ones, and publish or unpublish them.
Can do: authenticated user plus create, edit, and manage wiki entries.
Team manager: provides additional functions to manage Labdoo teams, including creating new Labdoo teams, managing the users part of a team or assigning team management roles to other users.
Can do: authenticated user plus create, edit, and manage Labdoo teams.
Superhub manager: provides additional functions to create new hubs and help manage larger Labdoo regions englobing multiple hubs.
Can do: authenticated user plus create hubs, create and edit superhub pages, manage regional contact pages, assign roles to users, rights to edit any laptop.
You can check the current roles assigned to your user by going to 'My account' and then clicking the tab 'My roles'.
As mentioned in the previous section, when you create your user for the first time, you are assigned by default the role of "authenticated user". If you need additional roles assigned to your user (e.g., if you want to become an "edoovillage manager" to create your own edoovillages or if you want to become a "Wiki writer" to write books like the one you are reading right now), please contact the Labdoo global team at contact@labdoo.org.
Superhub managers have the capability to assign certain roles to users. This helps make the platform more sustainable as managers can distribute tasks by delegating roles to other. For instance, a superhub user can assign the role of "edoovillage manager" to a user so that the new edoovillage manager can help manage a new edoovillage project.
If you are assigned the role of superhub, you can assign new roles to other users as followed (make sure you are logged in first):
https://platform.labdoo.org/users/$USERNAME
, where $USERNAME is the user's name)
Figure. To grant more roles to another user, go to that user's account page, click on the tab 'Roles', and select the new roles you want to assign to that user. |
Sometimes you may need to send a message to another Labdoo user to help coordinate some task but you don't have his/her email address. Or you may simply need to find how a user is connected with a specific dootronic, school or hub. In this case, you can use the Labdoo platform to reach out to that user as follows:
Go to your account page by clicking on the "My account" link you will find on any Labdoo page (make sure you are logged in). Then click on "Global contributions". This will take you to a page summarizing all the global contributions you have made using the Labdoo platform, including the amount of CO2 savings derived from your contributions. For each of your contributed items, you will also find links to the corresponding dashboards.
Figure. View of a user's global contribution page. |
At Labdoo, we use the word dootronics (as in labdoo electronics) to refer to any computer device that can be used for education purposes. A dootronic is therefore any laptop, tablet, ebook or computer device in general that can be loaded with education software and sustainably transported to a needy school. Our current minimum hardware requirement for a donated laptop is Core2 / Duak Core CPU with at least 1 GB (better 2 GB) of RAM.
Dootronics within the Labdoo social network are tracked using a unique tag called the Labdoo ID. A Labdoo ID consists of a unique 9 digit number and a unique QR code. The QR code points to the dootronic URL and provides the functions of traceability and transparency, allowing donors and participants to know the status of their contributed dootronic.
Figure. Each dootronic is tagged with a unique Labdoo ID such as the one in the illustration. |
Dootronics follow a set of stages from the time they are introduced into the Labdoo system, through the time they are delivered to a school, and to their final recycling stage in which the laptop is disassembled into reusable parts. These stages allow participants to organize each task around each dootronic in an orderly and transparent manner.
The possible stages a dootronic can go through are:
S0: Tagged with a Labdoo ID
S1: Donated, waiting to pass quality assurance
S2: Passed quality assurance
S3: Assigned to an edoovillage, waiting to be shipped
S4: Deployed and being used
S5: Waiting to be recycled
S6: Recycled
S7: (Deployed in a school library) Checked out
S8: (Deployed in a school library) Available
S9: Deployed but not working
T1: In transit going to an edoovillage
T2: In transit going to a recycling factory
L1: Dootronic was lost
There are two main operations you can do on a laptop: you can "tag" it or you can "update" it. Each of these two operations are described next.
Tagging a laptop:
Updating a laptop:
https://platform.labdoo.org/laptop/LABDOO_ID
. For instance, to go to laptop 000002280, use this URL https://platform.labdoo.org/laptop/000002280.
Figure. To tag a laptop, go to 'Dootronics' and click on the menu option 'Tag it!'. |
Figure. Example of tagging procedure. |
The laptop surely will need to be transported to different locations in the donation journey from the initial laptop donation until reaching the laptop recipient school.
If the laptop is transporting from one location to another location, it is very important to keep the laptop's location current. Below is the instruction on how to update the laptop location.
1. Go to the dootronics dashboard: ['Dootronics' → 'View'] https://www.labdoo.org/ca/content/dootronics-dashboard
2. In the "Free-Text Search" field, put the 9-digit number of the laptop you want to give to the sanitation hub. This will automatically update the table showing only the relevant dootronic.
3. Click on this dootronic.
4. Click on the 'Edit' button. Make sure you are logged into your account Labdoo, otherwise you will not see the button 'Edit'.
Transporting the laptop from one hub location to another hub
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5. Change the "Manager" with the new Labdoo user name who is in charge of the transported hub.
6. In the "Source hub" field, click on the button "Add another item" and add the name of the sanitation hub. Make sure that both your dropping point hub and the recipient sanitation hub are in the "Source hub" field so that the laptop appears in the inventory of both hubs.
7. Repeat all the above steps for each of the laptops that you want to give to a sanitation hub.
Transporting the laptop from hub to an edoovillage
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5. Change the "Status" to "S3: Assigned to an edoovillage and waiting to be shipped"
6. In the "Edoovillage destination" field, type in the school name which the laptop is assigned to.
7. Repeat all the above steps for each of the laptops that you want to give to that edoovillage.
8. After transferring the laptop to a traveler, change the "Status" to "T1:In transit, going to an edoovillage"
Dootronics provide the features of revision control and cloning to help you efficiently manage them. Here is what these features do:
Figure. Click on the tabs 'Revisions' or 'Clone content' to see the list of revisions or to make a copy of a dootronic. |
Often we need to allow other users to edit a dootronic that we are managing, so they can help update the status of the dootronic as it makes progress to a school. To allow another user to edit a dootronic that we manage, do as follows:
Figure. Allowing other users to edit our dootronics. |
Any of the following conditions will allow a user to edit a dootronic:
If you need to edit the status of a dootronic but do not satisfy any of the above conditions, please contact labdoo at contact@labdoo.org.
Labdoo is a humanitarian project, its goal is to help spread education as much as possible by delivering laptops loaded with educational content. To do so, it relies on contributions made by many people around the world, both in terms of physical laptops donated and a very large number of collective hours dedicated by many volunteers (people who collect unused laptops, sanitize them, travel with them or simply tell the Labdoo story). It is really important that such generous contributions be matched with a platform that is accurate and reflects the most up to date information because all the people that are involved in each mini-mission deserve to know the latest news about that effort and because without updated information it's difficult to make efficient decisions.
So how do we keep the information in the Labdoo platform most up-to-date to ensure transparency and agility? The answer is: via your frequent updates. For instance, every time a laptop is delivered at a school, the database needs to be updated (by both uploading new pictures and changing the state to "S4: Deployed and being used") as soon as possible so that donors and all volunteers that were part of that mini-mission get to know of the success of their work. But not only that, every time a new action is performed that involves a change in the state of any of the Labdoo objects (dootronics, dootrips, edoovillages, or hubs) it is very important that we update such information inside the Labdoo platform as soon as possible so as to keep the system most up-to-date.
Keep in mind that it took many people's collective effort to bring a laptop to a school (hours to collect, sanitize and deliver a laptop) and updating the database is only a few minutes of work. You have been really good at doing that already, but we just wanted to remind you of the importance of the work you do when you provide your timely updates on the platform. Thank you for keeping up the good work and for helping to make Labdoo a sustainable, fun and effective tool to spread education!
Sometimes it is useful to attach a keyword or tag to a dootronic so that it's easy for you to find that dootronic. For instance, imagine that you are receiving 4 dootronic contributions from an organization named "Cool Organization" and would like to make it easy for you to find them all in one shot. You can achieve this with just two simple steps:
The layout of the Labdoo system is controlled via the main navigation menu (MNM), located at the top of the page. The MNM is present in all the pages and allows users to quickly move to the various resources and tools. An important property of the MNM is that the availability of the various options depends on the role of the user. The more roles a user has, the more options he/she sees in the main navigation menu.
Given their relevance, users can find in the MNM access tabs for each of the five basic objects: dootronics, dootrips, edoovillages, hubs and the user account tabs. In addition, the MNM contains other menu options to help Labdooers inter-operate with the platform, such as visualization dashboards, wiki pages, newsletters, wall-like forums or team and project management operations, among others.
The design of the Labdoo social network puts special emphasis to providing transparency as one of the key mechanisms to facilitate the health of the system. To enable transparency, a series of dashboards are implemented allowing users to quickly know the status of the various objects (dootronics, dootrips, hubs, edoovillages, etc). These dashboards rely on a variety of mechanisms including geolocation maps, column charts, or dynamically configurable tables, to name a few. To access each dashboard, go to the Main Navigation Menu on the top of each page and click on one of the four Labdoo objects: 'Dootronics', 'Dootrips', 'Edoovillages' or 'Hubs'. Then click on 'View' to see the global dashboard for that type of object.
Optimized Cache to Speed Up Loading Time
The calculations that need to run in order to visualize each dashboard are quite computationally intensive due to the large amount of global data that they need to correlate. In order to speed up the loading of each dashboard and enhance the user experience, the Labdoo engine runs a caching algorithm, which works by computing the dashboards in the background once every hour (this frequency could change in the future but according to our experience this has worked quite well so far). That means that some of these dashboards may not display the latest information some times. Any changes made in the Labdoo system will be reflected in the dashboards at the next turn of the hour. For instance, if you tag a new laptop at time 12:35pm, the dashboards will show the new laptop starting at 1:00pm.
1. Meaning of fields
Field | Meaning |
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Needed | Total number of dootronics demanded by this edoovillage or hub |
Remaining | Total number of dootronics demanded by this edoovillage or hub that have still not been delivered |
% Completed | Percentage of completion, computed as (Needed - Remaining) / Needed * 100 |
Delivered | Total number of dootronics delivered to this edoovilage or by this hub |
Capacity | Total number of dootronics that can be carried by this dootrip |
In transit | Total number of dootronics that are currently in transit traveling to an edoovillage |
Transported | Total number of dootronics that have already been transported to an edoovillage |
2. Using the 'Free-Text Search' field
Within each visualization dashboard, you will find various tools to help you search, count, geolocate and track the status of any of the four main Labdoo objects (dootronics, dootrips, edoovillages and hubs). These tools include a geolocation map to position the displayed objects, a column chart that provides counting metrics, a search box and a set of drop down menu options to filter your search.
Of special interest is the search box "Free-Text Search", which allows you to search objects across pretty much any of their properties. For instance, you can search objects across Labdoo ID, status, country, assigned edoovillage, etc. One useful feature is that you can do automatically filtered searches by adding a prefix to your query. For instance, let's say that in the dootronics dashboard you want to find the device that has Labdoo ID equal to 000002358. To do so, you can type in the search box id:000002358
. Or let's say that you want to find all dootrips that have as destination country Tanzania. To do so, you can go to the dootrips dashboard and type in the search box dstcountry:tanzania
. The list of special keywords available for each of the four visualization dashboards is presented in the next table.
Dashboard | Search keys |
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Dootronics | id, hub, edoovillage, dootripid, status, notes, tagger, manager, emails, country, serialnumber, pickmeup, model, wh |
Dootrips | title, capacity, numberdootrips, status, completed, srccountry, dstcountry, dootrippers, additionalinfo |
Edoovillages | title, hub, needed, intransit, delivered, remaining, pcompleted, status, country, completed, open |
Hubs | title, needed, intransit, delivered, remaining, neededshared, remainingshared, pcompleted, country |
3. How to create URL links of specific dashboard views
Please see this page for information on how to generate URLs of specific dashboard views using the 'View Dashboards'.
Labdoo provides a set of "View Dashboard" for the four main objects (dootronics, dootrips, edoovillages and hubs). These dashboards provide information with finer granularity and are more interactive as data is provided real time. Due to this extra functionality, these dashboards don't provide a way to automatically generate URLs for specific views. However, special 'tricks' have been implemented into these dashboards so that users can manually create such type of URLs. The following method is considered a bit more 'advanced', but if you try a couple of examples, you will see that it is easy to use and it can be very convenient when generating URLs to report your activity.
Let's start with an example. Let's say you want to generate a view of all the edoovillages located in Tanzania that are managed by Labdoo Hub Rhein-Ruhr in Germany located in Morocco (just like in the previous example) using the 'Edoovillage View Dashboard'. For that, go to 'Edoovillages' and click on 'View'. Then, modify the URL as follows:
https://www.labdoo.org/de/content/edoovillages-dashboard?c=tz&h=431
Just like in the previous example, you can now cut and paste this URL and send it to a friend over email or post it in your favorite social network wall.
In this example, notice how the additional parameters in the URL are created. The parameter 'c' stands for 'country' and is assigned the value of 'tz', which is the country code of Tanzania. To find out the codes of other countries, you can use the table in this Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2. The parameter 'h' stands for 'hub' and is assigned the value of 431. This corresponds to the hub identifier of the Labdoo Hub Rhein-Ruhr in Germany. This value can be found by going to that hub's page (the full list of hubs is available at https://www.labdoo.org/hubs) and by simple inspection of its URL. In this example, the URL of this hub is https://www.labdoo.org/hub?h=431, indicating that its hub id is indeed 431.
There are four keywords that you can use in the 'View Dashboards':
'c': The country code.
'h': The hub identifier.
'e': The edoovillage identifier.
'u': The user identifier.
'search:: A metadata field that allows users to filter by keywords matching any field. For instance, to find all the schools in the city of Barcelona, Spain, do https://www.labdoo.org/content/edoovillages-dashboard?search=spain,%20ba.... Or to find all the laptops delivered due to the COVID cause, do https://www.labdoo.org/content/edoovillages-dashboard?search=covid
You can play with any of these. Here is an another example: selecting all the dootronics that are related to user 201, that are currently located in Kenya and that are assigned to edoovillage with identifier 1457 corresponds to this URL:
https://www.labdoo.org/content/dootronics-dashboard?u=201&c=ke&e=1457
Notice that this technique is applicable to any of the four 'View Dashboards': dootronics, dootrips, edoovillages and hubs.
The purpose of the Labdooers Dashboard is to help Labdoo users/volunteers (Labdooers) find and communicate with other Labdooers. You can have access to the Labdooers Dashboard by clicking on the "Explore" pull-down menu on the top of each page and then selecting the option "Labdooers". This will bring you to the Labdooers dashboard.
There are two different ways to search Labdooers' information:
After clicking on "Apply", a list of Labdooers who qualify the search condition will be listed down below.
Method 2 - Using map location search
You can also click on the small map provided on top of the page to find users according to location (e.g., users near your or near some hub or edoovillage). A red indicator will appear on the map. The "Latitude" and "Longitude" will also get filled once the indicator is placed. You can move the indicator and the "Latitude/Longitude" will be updated accordingly.
After the indicator is placed on its desired location, you also need to fill the "Distance" field and provide a search range. Once the location and distance are filled, a list of Labdooers who match the search parameters will be listed down below.
Labdoo provides a communication tool to help labdooers manage their own projects and activities in collaboration with other labdooers. We call this feature "Labdoo Teams". Each team organizes around a theme or topic, and users can join a team or several teams depending on their interests.
To access the list of Labdoo Teams, go to the 'Teams' menu located at the top of each page and select the option 'List all teams'. This will take you to this page. You can then click on any of the teams from that page.
Inside each team, you will see on the right column a list of possible actions you can perform. These actions include:
Figure. The teams page allows you to manage your own project activities and collaborate with other labdooers. |
If your Labdoo account has assigned the role of 'team manager', you will be able to configure and manage those teams that you create.
To manage a team that you have created, do as follows:
1. Go to that team's home page. You will see three tabs: 'View', 'Edit' and 'Team'. Click on the tab 'Team'.
2. In that page, you will see various options to help manage your team, as illustrated in the next figure.
Figure. Go to the team's home page and click on the tab 'Team' to access the following management page. |
3. For instance, to see the list of users currently in your team, click on 'People'. To add users to your team, click on 'Add people'. You can also assign the role of admin to any of the users in the team, so that user can also have rights to add other users. Notice also that depending on your role, some of the settings may be read-only.
Figure. You can add users to your team by clicking on 'Add people' which will take you to the following page. |
As part of a team, you will be able to create your own community events. Events are locally organized activities which allow Labdooers to get together and perform group activities. Here are examples of events that you may want to create:
The feature "Labdoo Events" allows you to create and manage your own events within the Labdoo platform. It provides functions such as creating the event, announcing the event to your community, allowing people to register to your event so you can track the head count, manage your events calendars, or sending messages to your registrants to keep them up to date about the event details, among others functions.
To create an event follow the next simple steps:
Your event is now created. You can now share it by clicking on the social network buttons that you will find in your event page (for Google+, Facebook, Twitter or any of your favorite platforms) or you can also copy the URL of the new event and share it.
If you enabled the option 'Enable event registration', you will be allowed to manage your event registrations. In that case, your event page will have two extra tabs: 'Manage registrations' and 'Register', as shown in the picture below:
Figure. Event example. If you enabled the option 'Enable event registration', your event will include two more tabs: 'Manage registrations' and 'Register'. |
By clicking on the 'Register' tab, you will be able to register yourself to the event. Other Labdoo users will see this tab to register themselves too. When sharing your event, you need to provide the URL of this event page so that users can register themselves by clicking on this 'Register' tab. Notice that the 'Register' tab is also available to users who don't have a Labdoo account, allowing these users to register to your events using their email address.
By clicking on the 'Manage registrations' tab, you will enter a sub-menu with options to configure your event registrations, to see the current list of registrants and to send the registrants email announcements, among other functions (this tab is only visible to the event manager). All these functions are designed to ensure you run a successful event!
We hope this text helped you understand how you can create and manage Labdoo events. As always, if you have any further questions, don't hesitate to write them on the Labdoo Global Support Team Wall and some Labdooer will help you resolve them. Happy teaming.
From time to time we need to send a message to all hub and/or edoovillage managers. For instance, when there is an announcement to be made about a new platform feature or a new release of the Labdoo educational software images. This can be done from the special Team called "The Coffee Shop": https://www.labdoo.org/content/coffee-shop/activities
To write a message to reach out to all hub and/or edoovillage managers, do as follows:
Remember that this is a powerful feature as it allows you to instantly send a message to all hub and edoovillage managers, so please use it wisely and make sure your message will be of relevant interest to the managers.
Figure. Conversations in the Coffee Shop Team have the special options to allow you to broadcast your message to hub and edoovillage managers. |
Some times you may want to start a conversation within a team but make it also available to other teams. Or you may also want to have a finer control on what users your conversation is shared with. When creating a new conversation, this can be done via the "Sharing options" panel, as shown in the following picture:
Figure. Click on "Sharing options" to select who you want to share your conversation with. |
If you to don't want to share the message with all the members of the team, uncheck the option "Share with all members of this team".
If you want to share the conversation with other teams, use the field "Share with additional teams".
If you want to share with specific users (even if they are not in the selected team), use the field "Share with additional users".
If you want to share with a person's email address (e.g., someone who does not have a Labdoo account), use the field "Share with additional email addresses".
To post a message to a team wall, do as follows:
So that all users (visitors, logged in users, participants, technology recipients, donors, etc.) can get a good sense of the activities carried out within the Labdoo network, the system provides various types of feeds. These feeds display both real time information of the activities being carried out as well as historical data of all past activities. Activity feeds can also be searched and filtered (for instance, you can specify to only display the activities carried out by you).
The main function of the activities feed is to help improve the transparency of the Labdoo system at all times to preserve the healthy state of the platform.
Figure. Click on 'Explore' - 'Global actions' to see an activity feed of all the actions that are taking place in the Labdoo network. |
One of the goals of Labdoo is to break barriers so that education can reach out to all the regions of the world. A key to overcoming these barriers is the capability to communicate and coordinate our actions in as many languages as possible. The more languages we support, the more people will be able to contribute and benefit, enabling a more balanced and sustainable organic growth path. To that end, the Labdoo social network exposes an interface to facilitate the process of translating the same Labdoo system. This allows anyone to participate in the process of helping translate the platform into another language.
The translation system is based on the concept of 'templates'. To translate the totality of the Labdoo platform, two types of templates need to be translated:
If you would like to contribute to the Labdoo project by helping translate the platform to another language, you can do so by following the next instructions.
1. Translation of email (.email) templates.
2. Translation of portable object (.po) templates.
Where to send the translated files
Once you are done with your translations, send the translated files to the email address project-labdoo@labdoo.org using as subject ‘Labdoo.org translation files’.
What about translating documents in the wiki?
The above two types of translations (.po and .email files) will allow you to translate the totality of the Labdoo platform except for the content found in the wiki system. This is because Laboo wiki content has its own online translation mechanism to allow wiki editors to work on their own, providing more flexibility and helping optimize the overall wiki book writing and translation workflow. If you want to translate a wiki page or book, please directly refer to the translation section of the wiki chapter.
The Labdoo platform allows users to create their own wiki pages. To do so, your user will need to have the role of "book writer". If you don't have this role assigned and would like to write wiki pages, please email contact@labdoo.org. (You can check the current roles assigned to your user by going to 'My account' and then clicking the tab 'My roles'.)
The Labdoo platform relies on the concept of wiki pages to allow users share knowledge and best practices. Here are some of the most common situations in which you will want to create a wiki page:
To create a wiki page, follow the next steps:
The body section of a wiki page allows writers to use a simplified form of HTML tags to help them format their content. While the page 'Compose tips' (a link to this page is provided at the bottom of the "body" field in each wiki form) provides a detail description of each of the HTML tags supported by the Labdoo wiki system, in this section we provide additional information for some of the tags that are a bit more advanced.
Inserting images
As explained in the 'Compose tips', you can insert an image using the <img> tag. For instance, the following tag:
<img src="/profiles/labdoo/files/pictures/laptop.png" width="50"/>
generates this image:
To upload the actual image, follow the next steps:
Figure. Through the file management interface, you can upload images and files. If you are adding images for the wiki, please make sure to upload your content inside the folder 'content'. Inside the folder 'content', it is also recommended that you create more folders to help you organize further your images and files, while reusing existing folders if the content belongs to the same category. |
Formatting figures in your wiki page
If you want to insert an image into your text, please follow the following format:
Here is an example:
<hr/>
<table align="center">
<tr><td>
<em> Figure. This is the Labdoo logo.</em>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<img src="/profiles/labdoo/files/pictures/laptop.png" width="50"/>
</td></tr>
</table>
<hr/>
Which is displayed as follows:
Figure. This is the Labdoo logo. |
Inserting videos
You may insert videos using the following simple tag:
For example:
[video:https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/watch?v=Gpo-7GjFydw]
For a good description on how to insert videos please directly refer to the 'Compose tips' page under the 'Video Filter' section.
If you need to create a link to a page that lives inside www.labdoo.org (for instance, a link to another wiki page), it's important to use relative paths starting with the string ../
. For instance, if you want to create a link to this wiki page, follow this example:
<a href="../content/creating-internal-links">An example link to this wiki page</a>
Which generates this link:
An example link to this wiki page
Using the string ../
in front of your internal links serves two goals:
The goal of Labdoo is to break barriers so that education can reach out to all the regions of the world. A key to overcoming these barriers is the capability to write documents not just in one language but in as many as possible. To that end, the Labdoo wiki system provides a few simple functions facilitating the translation of any wiki doc into any other language. If you find a relevant wiki page or book that is not available in your language, we encourage you to take action and start a translation on your own.
Here are the steps to translate a wiki page or book:
It is important to not make a wiki page publicly available until its text has been carefully proofread and corrected from any typos and grammatical mistakes. This is to ensure that all content abides to a minimum standard of quality.
To accomplish this, each wiki page has a tag on its top called 'Publish/Unpublish' (this feature is only available to users who have the 'book writer' role enabled) that the wiki writer can use to control whether that page is publicly visible or not. Please use this feature to control when your page should be published. Notice also that only users with the 'book writer' role will be able to see unpublished pages, to all other users such pages are not visible nor searchable.
Because the wiki is designed to be a collaborative tool, often we need to allow other users access to edit wiki pages. There are two methods to allow other users to edit wiki pages:
Figure. To grant a user the right to edit a specific wiki page, click on the 'Edit' tab of that wiki page and add the user to the field 'Grant edit rights'. Doing this will allow the user to edit this wiki page as well as all of its children wiki pages. |
The Labdoo wiki system provides revision control on each of the wiki pages. Every time a user modifies a wiki page, the changes are tracked. This allows for instance to roll back changes that were introduced by mistake or to see when certain changes were introduced.
To use this feature, click on the 'Revisions' tab that you will find on the top of each wiki page. (This feature is only available to users who have the 'book writer' role enabled.)
Every wiki page has at its bottom a link labeled 'Printer-friendly version' which viewers can use to generate a printer friendly version of that page. (To test it, click on the same link you will find at the bottom of this page.) To print the complete book instead of a single page, go to the first page of the book and click on its 'Printer-friendly version' link, it will take you to a page containing the whole book.
This feature can also be used to export the book into a PDF file. For that, when printing the book using your browser printing option, select the option to save it as a PDF. (This option will depend on the browser you are using.)
To download a wiki so that it can be accessed offline, you can use openly available tools that allow you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory. One tool that people have successfully used to download the Labdoo Wiki is called HTTrack, which is available for free (under GPL, libre/free software license) from http://www.httrack.com/.
This type of tools come very handy for instance when you want to include a certain wiki book into a laptop that you are going to bring to a school that may have limited Internet access. If you have any questions on how to use these tools, you can ask around in the Quality Assurance team wall.
HTTrack documentation (overview) https://www.httrack.com/html/index.html
HTTrack how to use https://www.httrack.com/html/shelldoc.html (beginners)
HTTrack Manual https://www.httrack.com/html/fcguide.html (experts)
The Labdoo Team has collected and prepared for you these useful offline wikis:
https://www.labdoo.org/wiki-index
https://wiki.lxde.org/en/Main_Page
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
https://help.ubuntu.com/
These wikis will be updated and can be downloaded from our FTP server http://ftp.labdoo.org/download/Public/.
While there is quite a bit of flexibility when writing your own wiki books, it is important to follow certain best practice rules to ensure that the content provided within the Labdoo platform is of good quality. As a wiki writer, please follow the next recommendations:
<em>text here</em>
. If your tag does not include any object inside (such as the new line tag <br>
or the horizontal line tag <hr>
), then you have two options: you can use either <br></br>
(without any object between the clauses) or the more compact version <br/>
. This first best practice is specially important because the Labdoo system provides automatic back ups of all the wiki content which needs to parse all the wiki pages, and if the tags are not correctly set up, the parsing process can break.
The general structure of the Labdoo wiki system is similar to other standard wiki systems (such as the Wikipedia) and hence it is fairly free style. That means that there is no need to have a lot of synchronization on what types of documents are created. If you believe that a certain article or document belongs to the Labdoo wiki system, then in general you can go ahead and create it. The wiki is an open system and your work will be subject to peer reviewing by other Labdooers so that if the new document is inappropriate to the subjects of interest in the Labdoo platform, then you will be given instructions on how to edit the content. As in any open wiki system, inappropriate content can be unpublished at any time, to ensure the wiki abides to certain standards of quality and relevancy.
Besides the above general 'free style' principle, the wiki does have a few categories of documents that are considered core to the Labdoo platform and standard for all available languages. When writing a new document, one needs to first consider if the new page belongs to any of these categories and structure the document accordingly, ensuring that there is no overlapping and that the new text follows a smooth reading experience with respect to the core documents. Here is the list of core documents/categories:
The general principle to add content to the wiki system is as follows: if the subject of the new wiki page belongs to any of the above core categories, then consider adding the new page as part of the above documents; otherwise, you can create a new wiki book.
Wiki books have multiple wiki pages, each page being a section inside the book. When you create or manage a wiki book, you will most likely need to rearrange the order in which each of these sections is presented. For instance, if you have a book consisting of three wiki pages called "Introduction", "Initial Steps", "Advanced Steps", it is logical that you would like to order these sections in the book by presenting first the section "Introduction", then the section "Initial Steps" and lastly the section "Advanced Steps".
To rearrange the order of pages in a wiki book, do the following:
Figure. On the reordering page of a book, click on the small icons with a cross located at the left of each element and drag that element up or down to position it in the right location. You can also use the numerical weights to reorder the content. |
The Labdoo Wiki engine has a module to detect broken links. This module runs in the background automatically from time to time, scanning Labdoo wiki pages and checking for broken links, so you don't have to manually do that by yourself. This means that using this feature is very simple, as described next.
In order to see the list of broken links that are found in wiki pages that you have written, go to "My account" on the upper right corner of any Labdoo page and select the option 'My broken links'. (Please notice that you will only see this option if you are logged into your account and if your account has 'wiki writer' rights.) This will take you to a page under your account with all the broken links that have been detected in wiki pages that you have written. For each broken link that you see in this list, click where it says 'Edit node $NUMBER'. This will take you to that node (in edit mode) where you can directly correct the broken link. If you are a wiki writer, from time to time please do make sure to go to this page and ensure that you have no broken links.
There is also a way to see all the broken links (not just those located in wiki pages that you write, but all the broken links from all the wiki pages) in a centralized list. To see this list, go to the 'Wiki' menu on the top of any Labdoo page and select the option 'All broken links'. (Again, only if you have 'wiki writer' rights you will see this option.) By clicking on this option, you will be taken to a page which gathers the complete list of broken links from all the wiki pages.
A note on broken links error codes. Each broken link comes with its own error code (see figure below for some examples). The most important broken links are those marked with error code 404, which means that the link does not exist ('Page not found'). Please fix all the broken links with error code 404. Other error codes may not need to be fixed. For instance, error code 301 means 'page permanently moved to a new URL', but the link itself is correct, so you don't need to correct any links with error 301.
A note on how pages are scanned. Broken links are found by scanning pages. This happens in two different ways: (1) when a page is saved, the link checker will provide a warning if any of the links are broken, so you can immediately fix it; (2) every hour (at the top of the hour), there is a background process that also checks for broken links. Notice also that when you fix a link, its entry will be immediately removed from the list of broken links.
Figure. Click on 'My broken links' to access the list of broken links found in wiki pages. |
At Labdoo, we all like the joy of seeing our laptops loaded with education software deployed in schools around the globe. But it is also very important that all the devices we deploy can eventually find their way to a recycling factory. The risk of not doing so is the generation of electronic waste in places that don't have the means to recycle technology, which is a potential problem that could defeat the good intentions of our efforts. The bias "deploy versus clean up" goes very similar to the dynamics we often see at a friend's party: we all enjoy more preparing and being part of a party than to clean up the dishes after the party is over. Yet we cannot stress enough the importance of having the capability and will to recycle all electronic devices to help preserve our planet.
To help eliminate potential electronic waste, Labdoo incorporates a tool called Global Inventory Check or GIC (pronounced as in "jeek(s)"). The GIC mechanism works as follows:
A final comment about GICs is that besides using them to help you track broken deployed dootronics, they can generally be used to quickly update all the dootronics assigned to an edoovillage in one shot. Often, updating the status of a dootronic (e.g. from status T1 to status S4) needs to be done on several dootronics that are all associated with the same edoovillage. The GIC table shows you in one page all these dootronics, allowing you to change their status at once in just a few clicks.
Everybody can be a participant in the Labdoo network by performing actions to help spread education around the globe. When one or more of the participants act together regularly, they can optionally create their own Labdoo Hub. A hub is mainly a group of people that get together from time to time to carry activities such as collecting and sanitizing unused laptops, organizing dootrips, recycling technology, or carrying out outreaching activities, among others. Hubs are flexible in that they do not need to carry out all of these activities, but just the ones that are appropriate to the skills of the people part of it. For instance, some hubs are just dropping points where people can bring their unused laptops which then get transported to other hubs where they get sanitized. Hubs are typically implemented in high schools, at home, in companies, in your local neighbor community, in any type of organized community.
If you want to create you own hub, please write an email to contact@labdoo.org and we will get back to you with further information on how to proceed.
When your own hub is created, you will receive a kit containing the following:
Here is a brochure to help quickly explain what a hub is that you can also share with your friends.
[Download in printable format]
There exist two types of hubs at Labdoo:
As a hub manager, you will have the capability to activate some triggers allowing you to automatically receive notifications upon certain events that might be of interest to your hub operations. To manage your notification triggers, click first on 'My account' to go to your account page. From there, click on the 'Edit profile' tab. This will open your profile configuration page. In that page, scroll down until you see the section 'Hub manager notifications'. In that section, you will be able to select which notification triggers you want to activate and also define your notification area.
Under 'Types of notifications ', select any of the triggers that you want to turn on:
Under 'Notification area', specify the area of the region you would like to receive notifications from. For instance, if you set this value to 50 km, you will receive notifications from activity happening within 50 kms of your home location.
Figure. As a hub manager, you can configure notifications to help you track relevant activities. |
To upload the pictures of your hub activities to your hub photo album, do as follows:
1. Make sure you are logged in to Labdoo.org. (If you are not logged in, go to https://www.labdoo.org/user/login and enter your username and password.)
2. Go to your hub page. To find your hub page, you can go to "My account" (https://www.labdoo.org/user) and then click on the "Global contributions" tab. Then click on the link "[See all contributed hubs]". This will take you to a dashboard from where you can select your hub.
3. Once you are on the hub page, click on "Go to photo album". This will take you to your photo album. Now you can click on "Upload new photos" where you will be able to upload your new photos. Notice that you will only see the option "Upload new photos" if you have sufficient hub managing rights to do so. If you don't see this option, contact the Labdoo team (https://www.labdoo.org/content/contact-labdoo) giving us your username so that we can provide sufficient rights to your account.
If you have any issues uploading your pictures, contact the Labdoo team at https://www.labdoo.org/content/contact-labdoo.
Figure. Go to your hub photo album and click on 'Upload New Photos' to post pictures of your hub activities. |
Each hub comes with a semaphore which is displayed on the right side of its dashboard (see Figure below). The semaphore colors have the following meaning:
To change the status of your hub's semaphore, click on the 'Edit this hub' link (see Figure) that you will find in your hub's dashboard (make sure you are logged in to see this link) and change the value of the field 'Semaphore'.
Figure. On each hub dashboard, you will see a semaphore drawing. |
The following protocol describes the actions that need to be taken by the dropping point hub when receiving laptops from the citizens and when handing laptops to the sanitation hubs.
Laptop management protocol for Labdoo Dropping Point Hubs
When your hub receives a laptop from a donor:
When your hub gives a laptop to a sanitation hub.
A hub englobing multiple hubs within the same geographic region is called a superhub. Superhubs add two additional functionalities to the Labdoo system:
In the next two sections, the above two features are described in more detail.
Labdoo users who have the "superhub" role assigned are allowed to create new Labdoo hubs. (For information on what a hub is, please refer to the Hubs Section in the 'Values and Principles' wiki book.) The process of creating a new Labdoo hub is as follows:
https://www.labdoo-dev.org/users/USERNAME
(where USERNAME is the username of the user), click on the tab 'Roles', and activate the checkbox 'hub manager' as illustrated in the next figure.
Figure. To assign the 'hub manager' role, go to that user's page, click on 'Roles' and select the appropriate checkbox. |
After the above steps, the new hub managers can start their hub activities as described in the Hubs Section of this wiki book.
Users with the superhub role are also allowed to create new pages in the labdoo.org platform to help manage the outreaching activities in their own regions. This feature allows this type of users provide localized content that is specific to the region they are covering.
To create a superhub page, follow the next steps (you will need to have the superhub role assigned to your user):
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<strong><span style='color:#ff3300;'>Your SuperHub Name</span></strong>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<form>
<select name='URL' onchange='window.location.href=this.form.URL.options[this.form.URL.selectedIndex].value'>
<option>Choose</option>
<option value='URL1'>Title Page 1</option>
<option value='URL2'>Title Page 2</option>
<option value='URL3'>Title Page 3</option>
<option value='URL4'>Title Page 4</option>
</select>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Substitute 'URL{1,2,3,4}' for the URLs of your pages removing the host name. For instance, if the URL of a page is https://www.labdoo.org/content/adding-superhub-page
, then use '/content/adding-superhub-page'. Substitute also 'Title Page {1,2,3,4}' for the title of each specific page.
When done, click on 'Save' to create your menu block.
At the end of this process, you will have created a set of pages and a menu block linked to the pages. Your site visitors will be able to browse all your pages by using the menu block.
If you also want to create a 'URL redirect' of your pages (for instance, if you want to map the URL https://www.labdoo.org/content/superhub-page-regionA
to https://regionA.labdoo.org
), please email contact@labdoo.org requesting the mapping.
As the manager of a superhub, you may want to have control on how users reach out to you. In this section you will learn how you can use the 'Labdoo Contact' page to redirect requests to your superhub.
The Labdoo contact page is located in this URL: https://www.labdoo.org/content/contact-labdoo. This contact form implements two main features:
If you click on this URL https://www.labdoo.org/content/contact-labdoo?co=de&re=1, you will notice that both the country and the reason fields are prepopulated. That's because the country is passed in the URL with the parameter 'co=de' (which corresponds to the country of Germany) and the reason is passed with the parameter 're=1' (which corresponds to reason #1 in the list: "I want to contribute a trip (dootrip)").
This feature is useful for creating your own customized redirect buttons from your own superhub page to the general contact form in a way that you can preset the answer to each of these two questions if you know where your user is coming from and the reason he/she is trying to contact you.
For a list of country codes that you can use when setting the URL parameter 'co', you can refer to this page: https://countrycode.org/
The list of reasons codes is as follows:
're=0': "I want to contribute a laptop or a tablet (dootronic)"
're=1': "I want to contribute a trip (dootrip)"
're=2': "I want to become a Labdoo volunteer (labdooer)"
're=3': "I want to solicit laptops or tablets for my educational project (edoovillage)"
're=4': "I just want to send a message to Labdoo.org"
Here is a use case describing how to put all this together. Let's say that in your front superhub page you want to add a button dedicated to users who are in your region and who want to contribute a dootrip. Then, you would implement this button:
As you can see, when you click on the above button ('Flugpate werden', which in Germany means 'Contribute a trip'), you get redirected to the contact page with the country and reason fields prepopulated to the values of "Germany" and "I want to contribute a trip (dootrip)", respectively.
Here is the HTML code to implement the above button:
<a href="../content/contact-labdoo?co=de&re=1">
<img src="/profiles/labdoo/files/pictures/button-contribute-dootrip-de.png" width="200"/></a>
Feel free to cut and paste the above code as a template and modify it to generate your own customized contact buttons. Remember also that you can find template buttons that you can reuse from the Labdoo toolkit. Happy coding!
If you are a superhub manager, you will also be able to encode your own Adwords conversion paths to help make your online campaigns more effective. (More information about conversion paths can be found on the web in places like https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1191209).
To enable your own conversion paths, click on the "Hubs" tab located at the top of this page and then click on "[Superhub] Manage adwords". (You will only be able to see this option if your user account has the superhub role enabled.) In the next page, you can edit your existing conversion paths or you can add new ones. To add a new conversion path, click on the link "Add conversion code". This will take you to a page where you can fill in all the necessary information ("Conversion ID", "Language", "Format", "Color" and "Label"). In the last field "Paths", you need to add the URL paths to the page that you want to attach the conversion path to. For instance, if the page is https://www.labdoo.org/content/thank-you-de0, then you need to enter the path "content/thank-you-de0". You can add multiple paths, each one of a separate line.
Figure. Click on "Hubs" - "[Superhub] Manage adwords" - "Add conversion code" to add your own conversion codes. |
Finding a Labdoo hub can be helpful if you want to donate your laptop or pick up laptops for your school (edoovillage). To find a Labdoo hub from a specific city and country, please follow the next steps.
If you need to contact the hub manager directly, you can also follow the next steps.
Note on hubs and branches: Some hubs are marked as "branch". Branches are small hubs that have a parent hub. If you cannot reach out to a branch manager, you can try contacting its parent hub manager too.
Note on hub types: The field "Type" in a hub explains the supporting function of that hub. There are two types of hubs:
Edoovillages are schools where laptops are deployed. Labdoo focuses on equipping schools because:
In this chapter you will find information on how to create and manage an edoovillage from within the Labdoo platform. For more general information about Edoovillages please refer also to the "Information for Edoovillages Book".
Labdoo users who have the "hub manager" role assigned are allowed to create new edoovillages. (If you don't have this role and want to solicit the creation of an Edoovillage project in your school, go to www.labdoo.org and press the button "Request laptops".) If you have this role, you can create a new Edoovillage as follows:
Congratulations! At this point, your edoovillage is created and you are now one step closer to make a big contribution towards spreading education around the world. Please continue reading the next section for more pointers on how to manage your edoovillage.
Figure 1. Click on "Schools" and "Create" to start the creation of your edoovillage. |
Each edoovillage comes with a semaphore which is displayed on the upper right part of its dashboard (see Figure below). The semaphore colors have the following meaning:
To change the status of your edoovillage semaphore, click on the 'Edit this edoovillage' link (see Figure) that you will find in your edoovillage dashboard (make sure you are logged in to see this link) and change the value of the field 'Semaphore'.
Figure. On each edoovillage dashboard, you will see a semaphore drawing. |
To upload the pictures you received from the school, do as follows:
1. Make sure you are logged in to Labdoo.org. (If you are not logged in, go to https://platform.labdoo.org/user/login and enter your username and password.)
2. Go to your edoovillage. To find your edoovillage page, you can go to "My account" (https://platform.labdoo.org/user) and then click on the "Global contributions" tab. Then click on the link "[See all contributed edoovillages]". This will take you to a dashboard from where you can select your edoovillage.
3. Once you are on the edoovillage page, click on "Go to photo album". This will take you to your photo album. Now you can click on "Upload new photos" where you will be able to upload your new photos. Notice that you will only see the option "Upload new photos" if you have sufficient edoovillage managing rights to do so. If you don't see this option, contact the Labdoo team (https://www.labdoo.org/content/contact-labdoo) giving us your username so that we can provide sufficient rights to your account.
If you have any issues uploading your pictures, contact the Labdoo team at https://www.labdoo.org/content/contact-labdoo.
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Note. Before changing the status of a dootronic to S4 (deployed), it's recommend whenever possible to upload the pictures to the corresponding edoovillage first. This order is relevant (first upload the pictures to the edoovillage photo album and then update the laptops associated to that edoovillage to status S4) in order to guarantee that by the time the donors receive the email (this happens when a laptop status is changed to S4) the pictures are available in the edoovillage's photo album for the donors to visit. If the pictures are not available or if it will take some time to receive the pictures, then it is recommended to update the laptops status to S4 and then upload the pictures as soon as they are available.
Figure. Go to your edoovillage photo album and click on 'Upload New Photos' to post pictures of your project. |
The creation of edoovillages is restricted to people who belong to a hub, long term volunteers who know how things work and help the following person in the process, this is they way we somehow work, there are allways different people in charge of every step of the process. Someone in the organization creates the edoovillage and someone else in the field is responsible at the destination: informs about the needs and about dootronics reception. It's advisable that these two roles are played by two different persons.
Often the schools can be managed by more than one person who will be able to edit and change the content of the school description and needs.
Dootrips, or Labdoo trips, are CO2-neutral transportation means used to carry dootronics (laptops, tablets, etc.) from one location to another. Examples of dootrips are trips carried out by tourists, NGO volunteers (doctors and engineers without borders, humanitarian personnel, etc.), international students, employees of international corporations, etc. Dootrips constitute a key element within the Labdoo platform to help deliver laptops and tablets loaded with educational software to needy schools without incurring additional CO2 emissions on the planet.
The next sections describe how to create and manage dootrips.
If you are traveling and have place in your luggage to bring one or more dootronics (laptops, tablets, etc.), or if you are part of an organization or company which has people traveling or which transports goods from one place to another and have extra room to bring a few more goods, you can register a dootrip to the Labdoo platform. This allows the system to identify routes that connect places where there are unused dootronics with places where dootronics are needed for education purposes.
The steps to register a dootrip are as follows:
Once you have carried out your dootrip, it is important to modify the field 'Status' to 'Completed'. If for some reason the dootrip was cancelled, set this field to 'Cancelled'.
as Figure. Go to the "Dootrips" tab and then click on "Create" to register your trip. |
When creating a dootrip, if you know the destination edoovillage (the project where you plan to bring the laptops to), then it's important that you link your dootrip to the edoovillage by following this simple step:
At this point, your dootrip and your edoovillage are linked. Notice that if you go to the edoovillage page, you will also see your dootrip under the yellow tab "Dootrips".
There are two ways to assign a dootronic to a dootrip, by editing the dootronic or by editing the dootrip:
To facilitate the process of communicating and managing dootrips, Labdoo users involved in a dootrip can receive any of the following automatic email notifications:
In addition to the above notifications, users will receive the following set of reminders:
TODO
The feature 'Newsletters' provide you with a tool to outreach your regional community by creating your own newsletter issues. This feature allows you to:
Figure. Sample newsletter. |
If you want to manage your own newsletter, please send an email to contact@labdoo.org and ask the Labdoo team to assign the role of 'Newsletter manager' to your account. Once this is done, you will see a new 'Newsletter' tab on the top Main Navigation Menu. By clicking on 'Newsletter' and then 'Create an issue' you will be taken to a dashboard where you can create and edit your newsletter as shown in the next figure.
Figure. Click on 'Newsletter' and 'Create an issue' to go to the newsletter edit dashboard. |
You will need to select a title for your newsletter as well as the 'Newsletter category' corresponding to the newsletter your are managing.
The 'body' field includes the actual content of your issue. Start by copying and pasting from one of the templates that you will find in this wiki section. You can copy the template by clicking on the 'Edit' tab of the template page and then by copying the content from its body to the body of your new newsletter.
Once you have copied the template to your newsletter body, you can modify the small fields like the 'Issue number' and the 'Date'. In the template, you will find a set of sample news (all identical), each including a title placeholder 'Title of This News Entry Here', a text paragraph placeholder 'Write here one or two paragraphs describing this news entry.' and a sample image '/sites/default/files/styles/labdoo_flexslider_image_style/public/lbd_slides/guinea-conakry.png'. You need to substitute these three values by your own title, text and image for each of your news entries. (If you don't know how to upload pictures for your newsletter, read this other wiki page.)
Once you are done editing your newsletter and have ensured that it is correct, you can submit it to your list of subscribed users by clicking on the tab 'Newsletter' and then selecting 'Send newsletter'. Notice that the system allows you to also send yourself a sample of the newsletter issue by selecting the option 'Send one test newsletter to the test address'. We recommend you to do so prior to sending the final version out to your whole audience.
In the next sub-sections you will find the templates that you can use to create your newsletter. Select your language, and copy and paste the template in your newsletter form as it was explained in the previous section.
Labdoo Newsletter català |
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Labdoo.org "Your humanitarian social network to help bring education around the world" |
LABDOO is a humanitarian social network joined by people around the world who want to make our planet a better place by providing those in underdeveloped regions a chance at a better education. The goal of the social network is to send unused laptops, ebook readers, tablet-PCs and any device that can be loaded with education software to needy schools around the world using colaboration and without incurring any economic or environmental costs. There is a very large number of stories taking place within the Labdoo social network and this newsletter only captures a few of them. If your story does not show up and you feel that it is worth spreading, please send an email to contact@labdoo.org and the editor of this newsletter will make any possible effort to include it in the next issue -- The Labdoo Team. | |
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Labdoo 電子報 |
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Labdoo.org "Your humanitarian social network to help bring education around the world" |
LABDOO is a humanitarian social network joined by people around the world who want to make our planet a better place by providing those in underdeveloped regions a chance at a better education. The goal of the social network is to send unused laptops, ebook readers, tablet-PCs and any device that can be loaded with education software to needy schools around the world using colaboration and without incurring any economic or environmental costs. There is a very large number of stories taking place within the Labdoo social network and this newsletter only captures a few of them. If your story does not show up and you feel that it is worth spreading, please send an email to contact@labdoo.org and the editor of this newsletter will make any possible effort to include it in the next issue -- The Labdoo Team. | |
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Labdoo Newsletter global |
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Labdoo.org "Tag a laptop, spread education" |
LABDOO is a humanitarian social network joined by people around the world who want to make our planet a better place by providing those in underdeveloped regions a chance at a better education. The goal of the social network is to send unused laptops, ebook readers, tablet-PCs and any device that can be loaded with education software to needy schools around the world using colaboration and without incurring any economic or environmental costs. There is a very large number of stories taking place within the Labdoo social network (take a look at the global activity feed) and this newsletter can only capture a few of them. If your story does not show up and you feel that it is worth spreading, please send an email to contact@labdoo.org and the editor of this newsletter will make any possible effort to include it in the next issue. The Labdoo Team. |
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Labdoo Newsletter español |
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Labdoo.org "Your humanitarian social network to help bring education around the world" |
LABDOO is a humanitarian social network joined by people around the world who want to make our planet a better place by providing those in underdeveloped regions a chance at a better education. The goal of the social network is to send unused laptops, ebook readers, tablet-PCs and any device that can be loaded with education software to needy schools around the world using colaboration and without incurring any economic or environmental costs. There is a very large number of stories taking place within the Labdoo social network and this newsletter only captures a few of them. If your story does not show up and you feel that it is worth spreading, please send an email to contact@labdoo.org and the editor of this newsletter will make any possible effort to include it in the next issue -- The Labdoo Team. | |
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1. For Dootronic Contributors:
'Pick me up' is a feature designed to make the process of contributing dootronics (laptops, tablets, etc.) to the Labdoo project as easy as possible. The idea is simple: do you have a dootronic at home that you no longer use but you are so busy that you cannot afford to spend much time on making your contribution? Then follow these very simple steps, which should take only a few minutes of your time:
The 'Pick me up' button allows people to contribute their dootronics even if they don't have the time to drop them to their nearest Labdoo hub. Many of us are often busy in our daily activities, but through features like the "pick me up" button, there is now practically no excuse for not contributing your unused laptops and education devices to a needy school :).
As ususal, if you have any feedback on how to improve this and other Labdoo features, share it via the 'Software Development Team'.
Figure. Once you've tagged a dootronic, click on 'Pick me up' if you'd like some volunteer from a nearby Labdoo hub to pick up your dootronic. |
2. For Hub Labdooers:
If you belong to a hub, you can check the list of dootronics near your area that are marked as 'pick me up' by going to the menu item 'Dootronics' and then clicking on 'View'. This will take you to the dootronics global dashboard. Now click on the button 'Fields' and select the 'Pick me up' option. This will add a column with the status of the 'Pick me up' flag for each dootronic. Click on the top header of that column to order them according to the value of this flag and you will see all the dootronics that are marked with a value of 'yes' for those that are ready to be picked up. Remember that you can also narrow down your search by selecting the country option.
There is also a cool feature to automatically receive email notifications upon any pick up activity near your area. Please read this other page to activate your trigger notifications.
Labdoo is a collaborative humanitarian social network which is designed to help bring laptops and educational devices to schools in need without incurring any economic or environmental costs.
In the world, those who have access to free sources of education (FSE) are the rare exception. This is a problem because:
This reality is commonly known as the 'digital divide'.
A laptop allows schools to gain access to FSE, helping to unlock the skills and potential capabilities of children and students. This can be achieved via offline education software that comes installed in the laptops or via online education content.
Labdoo exists as 'a tool' to help sustainably coordinate the mobilization of unused educational devices and to bring them to needy schools using global collaboration, without incurring any economic cost and without damaging the Planet.
The mechanism to deliver Labdoo's mission is via the creation of a humanitarian social network. This social network provides the following functions:
Labdoo provides an open and free tool: the tool is the humanitarian social network and the toolkit found in it that allows everyone to carry out his or her own mini-mission. The tool is provided “as is”, which means that people developing it cannot be liable for how the tool is used. This concept is similar to other well known projects such as the GNU Project.
The source code that runs the Labdoo social network is fully and freely available from the following github repo: https://github.com/labdoo
Our philosophy
You may have noticed that within the Labdoo.org system there is no place for people to make a monetary donation and the platform is 100% advertisement free. That's because Labdoo runs simply out of people's goodwill through the contribution of people's time (global collaboration) and unused resources such as laptops or travelers' luggage space (excess capacity), and therefore we require no investors to carry out our cause. We call this a "zero funding organization".
The Labdoo team presented the idea of zero funding organizations in the paper “Humanitarian Social Networks and Positive Sum Development” presented at the 2013 International Conference on Sustainable Development Practice, in New York. Zero-funding organizations are a special case of traditional nonprofit organizations and the concept of social businesses introduced by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus in his book ”Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”. A zero funding organization is a non-profit organization and a social business which is self-sustainable without any major source of monetary funding, including philanthropic donations, external investment funding or even internal profits. A zero funding organization is a special case of a nonprofit organizations because it generates no monetary profits, only social profits. It is also a special case of Yunus’ concept of social businesses because, since there is no money involved, its objective can only be social.
In summary, zero funding organizations are both nonprofit organizations and social businesses that eliminate money from the organization’s operational equation.
The benefits
The Labdoo founders decided to build the Project as a Zero Funding Organization because of several important reasons:
The meaning of targeting zero funding: Cost per Dootronic (CPD)
Of course in reality from time to time there will be unavoidable costs. For instance, let's say a hub is presenting the Labdoo idea to its community in a local event; there will be a need to build tools to help outreach and communicate. Perhaps there will be a need to create a roll up or to print your own outreaching cards. Because these costs are small, most labdooers tend to absorbe them out of their pocket (for instance, since most of us have printers at home, it costs practically nothing to print a few flyers). However, certain hubs grow to support a network of hub branches and as they organically grow, their fix costs increase too: e.g., it is not the same for a small hub at a high school to sanitize 20 laptops a year than for a few united hubs and branches to sanitize 1000 laptops.
The meaning of the words 'targeting zero funding' is not so much about the fix costs, but about the marginal costs of the project. The marginal costs are defined as the Cost per Dootronic or CPD. Our goal is to keep the CPD of the Labdoo project as nearly as possible to zero. While we understand that absolute zero is not feasible, we operate with the target to keep it as low as possible by leveraging the two pilars: (1) excess capacity and (2) global collaboration.
Today our CPD is about 3 dollars per dootronic (this includes all possible costs, including transportation). This makes Labdoo more than 100 times more efficient than other initiatives such as the One Laptop Per Child, which had an estimated cost of more than 400 dollars per computer. It is important to notice that this is the average cost per dootronic (summing up expenses divided by numer of dootronics). Occasionally a laptop may cost higher than this value, but by leveraging scales, the average stays low. The CPD can be kept low because Labdoo relies on collaboration and excess capacity. The CPD value includes all the associated costs such as sanitizing unused laptops, loading the education software using free open source technology, transportation using CO2-neutral dootrips, deployment and post-deployment services via the collaborative Labdoo Global Support Program. Our goal is to continue to keep this number as low as possible.
Labdoo is a humanitarian social network where everyone can participate. Organized according to their function, the network is composed of the following non-exclusive participating groups: the grassroots, hubs, edoovillages and beneficiaries.
All of Labdoo's general values, philosophy and principles described in this document apply also to all of Labdoo's participating groups.
The grassroots are defined as anyone carrying out a “Labdoo act”, no matter how small. Examples of such acts are: tagging, sanitizing a laptop, making a dootrip, explaining the meaning of the “digital divide” and “electronic waste” to a friend, recycling a laptop, coding a portion of the social network, etc. Every person that is part of the grassroots defines a node in the Labdoo network. Each of these nodes is connected with each other using the Labdoo humanitarian social network (HSN). The delivery of the overall social mission is made possible through these connections, which provide an efficient and sustainable way to bring excess capacity to regions in need.
While the Labdoo tools are provided “as is”, everyone participating in the project is expected to behave according to good ethic and moral principles. Participants acting against the values and principles described in this charter can be removed from the Labdoo network.
Everybody can be a participant in the Labdoo network by performing actions to help spread education around the globe. When one or more of the participants act together regularly, they can optionally create their own Labdoo Hub. A hub is mainly a group of people that get together from time to time to carry activities such as collecting and sanitizing unused laptops, organizing dootrips, recycling technology, or carrying out outreaching activities, among others. Hubs are flexible in that they do not need to carry out all of these activities, but just the ones that are appropriate to the skills of the people part of it. For instance, some hubs are just dropping points where people can bring their unused laptops which then get transported to other hubs where they get sanitized. Hubs are typically implemented in high schools, at home, in companies, in your local neighbor community, in any type of organized community.
When a hub is created, it receives a kit containing the following:
If a hub becomes inactive for at least six months or if it acts against the Labdoo principles described in this charter, its kit can be removed or reassigned to another hub or group of people.
Edoovillages are schools where laptops are deployed. Labdoo focuses on equipping schools because:
In order to create a new edoovillage, the potential recipients will need to fill in the Labdoo laptop request form.
When an edoovillage is created, the recipients receive a kit containing at least:
To help reduce electronic waste, a main obligation of the laptop recipients is to report back to Labdoo.org every six months the list of laptops under their inventory and their status (working or not working) and facilitate the process of recycling the laptops once they no longer work through the Labdoo's social network-based recycling mechanism. This reporting processes are referred as Global Inventory Checks (GICs).
Besides helping to eliminate the digital divide and thanks to its distributed nature, Labdoo can also help remove other types of social barriers. One example is the barriers and stereotypes that may exist between beneficiaries and the benefactors. In traditional aid systems, usually the rich helps the poor, the north helps the south, the adults help the youngest ones. In the Labdoo network, however, everyone can benefit from the project and everyone can make a contribution. The project aims at covering needs and mobilizing excess resources wherever they may be, regardless of their location and their size. For instance, in the Labdoo network, aid can originate from the developing world and be received by the developed world. Also, not only adults can participate with the tasks of sanitizing a laptop, but also young students. Real examples found in the Labdoo network illustrating this concept are a Labdoo hub created in Mexico City sanitizing laptops and a School in Silicon Valley receiving laptops for students coming from low income families.
In the Labdoo network there are no benefactors; instead, everyone is a beneficiary. Those who receive the technology benefit from it by having a better access to education while those that dedicate a moment of their time to bring technology to the needy ones benefit from the experience of participating in a global project, learning about the social and environmental issues the world faces, making new friends, and the joy of seeing a happy face at the end of their mini-mission.
Labdoo has earned its great reputation for trust and confidence because its volunteers hold to a higher standard by adhering to commitments, displaying honesty, integrity, respect, and conducting honorably.
Everything we do in connection with our work at Labdoo is measured against the highest possible standards of ethical conduct. Our commitment to these standards ensures that great people join our network, be they volunteers or partners.
The following document presents Labdoo's official code of conduct. This document helps us follow some guidelines on how to behave and how to handle different scenarios when interacting with other volunteers, NGOs, schools, companies, organizations and people in general.
Please read the Code of Conduct and follow both its spirit and letter, always bearing in mind that each of us has a personal responsibility to incorporate, and to encourage other Labdooers to incorporate, the principles of the Code into our work.
Thank you.
Use this chart to help you resolve any problems related to the code of conduct.
Digital Divide: A global problem arising from the fact that those who do not have access to the Internet, cannot have free access to sources of education, which leads to lesser opportunities with respect to those who do have access to the Internet. Since those who have access to the Internet learn education at a much faster pace
than those who do not, the digital divide leads to an ever increasing socio-economic gap between these two groups.
Dootronic: An electronic learning device stored in the Labdoo database.
Dootrip: The action of transporting a laptop from one location to another in the luggage of volunteering travelers who have to undertake that trip regardless of the
laptops. Dootrips effectively provide a transportation system with no economic or environmental cost.
Edoovillage: A location where the Labdoo network has a school project where laptops are sent.
Electronic Waste (eWaste): A global problem arising from the ever increasing consumption of electronic goods that at the end of their life time do not get properly
recycled back to planet earth.
Hub: A hub is mainly a group of people that get together from time to time to carry Labdoo activities
Global Inventory Checks (GICs): A tracking system which can track deployed dootronic status. It can be used to quickly update all the dootronics assigned to an edoovillage in one shot.
Labdoo: It stands for Laboratories for Education—the mission of the Labdoo project is to use social network tools to bring laptops to children without incurring additional costs to Planet Earth.
Labdooer: A Labdoo activist.
Labdoo Global Support (LGS): A support system to provide online technical help to schools around the world who receive dootronics
Mini-mission: The mission of bringing a single unused laptop to a school so that children in that school can gain free access to sources of education.
Labdoo Circle of Life: It is the life-path that every laptop should undertake to ensure sustainability, including the extraction of its components from Planet Earth, their assembly into the actual laptop embodiment, its usage, its delivery to a child for education purposes using dootrips, and its final recycling back to Planet Earth.
Team: Labdoo provides a communication tool to help labdooers manage their own projects and activities in collaboration with other members. We call this feature "Labdoo teams".
Wiki: Wiki pages allow users share knowledge and best practices in document format.