FLOSS Manuals has just gone live with its new booki software for creating and translating Free Software manuals. I have written for them on several projects. Booki is available to anybody, and I propose to create a project in cooperation with Sugar Labs to take advantage of this. Walter Bender agreed just moments ago.
http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/fundraiser/Mokurai In addition, UNESCO has just started a public discussion on OERs in global education, and invited me to lead a discussion on the economics and financing of educating up to a billion children at a time with low-cost computers and OERs. The major cost is for hardware, including computers, locally-generated renewable electric power, and broadband Internet to the villages. The benefits include ending poverty, oppression, each of the kinds of misery detailed in the UN's Millennium Development Goals program, and maybe war. If you are interested in joining the discussion, I can get you an invitation, and we can then invite other members of our various projects with appropriate skills and interests. The economic issues include general economic development, government corruption, and the false and perverse economic theories so much supported by multinational corporations, known generally as Market Fundamentalism. We propose a new economics of sharing and freedom that takes proper account of the conditions in which markets can be truly free for everyone, not just Free for the rich, and too expensive for the poor. "If livin' was a thing that money could by, Well then the rich would live and the poor would die..." as they in fact do. In particular, it isn't a Free Market if you are legally excluded from getting into it by "nativist" immigration laws. (Native Americans respond to the call to send all immigrants back to where they came from, "I'll help you pack.") -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep