Re: [Marketing] Promoting open source in education
Hi On 2007-03-02, at 11:39 , Ian Lynch wrote: For info. While not specifically an OOo project, (Most of the partners are new to OOo) a preparatory meeting was held for a Comenius project involving myself, Manfred Reiter and delegates from Romania, Portugal and the UK. Its early days yet but there is also a proposal for a Minerva project (which is potentially more money) and these both have potential to create curriculum resources in a number of languages helpful to OpenOffice.org. Details are yet to be finalised especially for Minerva but there are also partners in Turkey. Ian I'm familiar with some Minervas [0], [1], but what do you mean by a Minerva Project? It sounds quite interesting. Along these lines, I've also been working with Sakai [3], which has a lot of people here in Toronto. Things are still early. But let's work together. I'm mostly interested in getting things going and making sure that people know of it. Gerry S. (of documentation) also pinged me (we live in the same city) and suggested the contribution of the Doc project, which I enthusiastically welcome. -louis [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokeos [1] http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/minerva/html/minerva-home.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Marketing] Promoting open source in education
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:28 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > Erwin, > > > On 2007-03-02, at 06:20 , Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: > > > I was just made aware of the following OpenSolaris learning > > resources that can be used by universities as part of their > > curriculum: > > > > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/curriculum_development/ > > > > Maybe we could come up with similar topics for OpenOffice.org!? > > > > > > Cheers, > > Erwin > > Sophie and I created the Education Project, http:// > education.openoffice.org/, precisely for this; both of us had been > working in this area for years and I had drafted a workflow for > Education several years ago (it's on the project homepage). We'd be > happy to work with Sun and other stakeholders to do this. To be sure, > we've tried--and received no meaningful response from Sun. IBM has > helped a little but not in fleshing out that project. Furthermore, as > you surely know, the focus has shifted a little to developing the > Extensions project, where we have had a lot of interest from OSU, > Seneca college and others in France and India--in fact, as I told > you, this is a central focus of my recent trips and has been a > longtime interest of Sophie's. > > If people want to help with adding more to the Education Project, > then we welcome you. It's not the Marketing one. This is focused on > establishing a node for students, professors, teachers and to > creating curricula. For info. While not specifically an OOo project, (Most of the partners are new to OOo) a preparatory meeting was held for a Comenius project involving myself, Manfred Reiter and delegates from Romania, Portugal and the UK. Its early days yet but there is also a proposal for a Minerva project (which is potentially more money) and these both have potential to create curriculum resources in a number of languages helpful to OpenOffice.org. Details are yet to be finalised especially for Minerva but there are also partners in Turkey. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Marketing] Promoting open source in education
Erwin, On 2007-03-02, at 06:20 , Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: I was just made aware of the following OpenSolaris learning resources that can be used by universities as part of their curriculum: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/curriculum_development/ Maybe we could come up with similar topics for OpenOffice.org!? Cheers, Erwin Sophie and I created the Education Project, http:// education.openoffice.org/, precisely for this; both of us had been working in this area for years and I had drafted a workflow for Education several years ago (it's on the project homepage). We'd be happy to work with Sun and other stakeholders to do this. To be sure, we've tried--and received no meaningful response from Sun. IBM has helped a little but not in fleshing out that project. Furthermore, as you surely know, the focus has shifted a little to developing the Extensions project, where we have had a lot of interest from OSU, Seneca college and others in France and India--in fact, as I told you, this is a central focus of my recent trips and has been a longtime interest of Sophie's. If people want to help with adding more to the Education Project, then we welcome you. It's not the Marketing one. This is focused on establishing a node for students, professors, teachers and to creating curricula. Best, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Marketing] Promoting open source in education
I was just made aware of the following OpenSolaris learning resources that can be used by universities as part of their curriculum: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/curriculum_development/ Maybe we could come up with similar topics for OpenOffice.org!? Cheers, Erwin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
