On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 04:57:37PM -0500, Justin W. Flory wrote: > ====================================================================== > = Quick Summary = > ====================================================================== > 1) Online university meets contributing to Fedora (kind of) > 2) Join process: Move from wiki to more modern + centralized "course" > 3) Improve process to jumpstart new contributors > 4) Four main questions to answer > 5) Opinions / thoughts very welcome * > > * Longer email, but worth the read! > ====================================================================== > > Hello all, > > This idea originates from a discussion Gabri (mailga) and I had in > #fedora-join today. > > Gabri pointed out the availability of a variety of different "online > classroom" type of applications or websites. They're pretty commons > nowadays, with things like Udemy or Coursera being used to let people > take full-fledged courses in any subject they want (sometimes at a cost, > sometimes not). > > The article that started this discussion can be found here: > > > http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/02/seven-free-platforms-for-teaching.html#.VowZWHXRbeQ > > The needs for something like this would be as follows: > 1) Create a series of "lessons" for newcomers to follow in order to be > "ready" to contribute to what interests them > 2) Courses / lessons easy to update and keep current with the fast-paced > speed of Fedora > > Gabri also linked this article which may of use of finding a platform we > like, should this be something we are interested in: > > http://blog.capterra.com/top-8-freeopen-source-lmss/ > > However, to the point - now what? There's a few questions I think we > need to answer? > > > > 1) Is this something we think would be useful to pursue?
I definately think so. > > 2) If so, what is the scope we want to pursue? Start small and see if > it works well, then try a wider adoption? > > 3) Is this something we would have as a long-term goal for 2016 for > every subgroup to try to adopt (with the assistance of CommOps)? Would be willing to participate in a meeting to discuss. > > 4) Are there any downsides that stand out by trying to pursue an > online "contributor classroom" sort of style versus using the wiki? > > > > I think these are the core questions we need to answer to move forward. > This may be an interesting discussion topic for a meeting if there is > support for the idea. > > And Gabri, feel free to chime in and add anything in case I missed > something. :) > > Interested to hear your thoughts! > > -- > Cheers, > Justin W. Flory > jflo...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-join mailing list > fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ fedora-join mailing list fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org
