Re: [TOS] POSSE South Africa status update

2010-09-16 Thread Jan Wildeboer
Will try to join IRC, but am busy with Oktoberfest in Munich ;-) Jan - Original Message - From: Mel Chua To: Michael Adeyeye Cc: TOS ; Jan Wildeboer ; P Papadeas Sent: Thu Sep 16 15:13:58 2010 Subject: Re: [TOS] POSSE South Africa status update > Sorry, I couldn't join you at the mee

Re: [TOS] POSSE South Africa status update

2010-09-16 Thread Mel Chua
> Sorry, I couldn't join you at the meeting. Below is a quick update No worries, Michael - things happen. Thanks for updating the list, I'll reply to everyone as well so folks stay in the loop. And I'll be sending more notes tonight as I work more on POSSE South Africa (gotta file expense repor

Re: [TOS] Announcement: Big Ideas Fest, December 5-8, Half Moon Bay, CA

2010-09-16 Thread Mel Chua
On 09/16/2010 06:22 AM, Heidi Ellis wrote: > Hi Greg, > Welcome back! The Big Ideas Fest sounds interesting. Ummm, when? Where? > Heidi http://www.bigideasfest.org/ - December 5-8, 2010, in Half Moon Bay, CA. And then I looked up and went "oh! subject line!" Oh well. :) Remember, folks - we *do*

Re: [TOS] Self reintroduction :)

2010-09-16 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Welcome back. I see a message from you on 8-April-2010 - did you > still work > for RedHat back then? Yes, I left Red Hat in June. --g -- Greg DeKoenigsberg CTO, ISKME g...@iskme.org ___ tos mailin

Re: [TOS] Self reintroduction :)

2010-09-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 16 September 2010 07:55:53 Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > To quote the immortal Jay-Z: allow me to reintroduce myself. > > I'm Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly of Red Hat, formerly very active on > this list. In June I left Red Hat to join a non-profit called the > Institute for the Study of

Re: [TOS] POSSE South Africa status update

2010-09-16 Thread Michael Adeyeye
Hi Guys, Sorry, I couldn't join you at the meeting. Below is a quick update - On my part, I have been trying to get an approval from the HoD/Dean on the refreshments/dinner. We will be discussing it tomorrow at the staff meeting, and I will send you an update as soon as I have a word on it. @Mel:

Re: [TOS] Self reintroduction :)

2010-09-16 Thread Michael Nelson
2010/9/16 Michael Adeyeye > Hi Greg, > Welcome back to TOS too. I could see that Mel is taking after you. And > congratulations on the ISKME job. I am glad ISKME also buys into the idea of > OER and Open (Source) Education that Mozilla and Red Hat are driving. > Hi Greg (and everyone)! We haven'

Re: [TOS] Self reintroduction :)

2010-09-16 Thread Michael Adeyeye
Hi Greg, Welcome back to TOS too. I could see that Mel is taking after you. And congratulations on the ISKME job. I am glad ISKME also buys into the idea of OER and Open (Source) Education that Mozilla and Red Hat are driving. I hope to read more of your posts soon. Regards, Michael. PS: We met a

Re: [TOS] Announcement: Big Ideas Fest, December 5-8, Half Moon Bay, CA

2010-09-16 Thread Heidi Ellis
Hi Greg, Welcome back! The Big Ideas Fest sounds interesting. Ummm, when? Where? Heidi -Original Message- From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Greg DeKoenigsberg Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:37 AM To: tos@teachingopensour

Re: [TOS] Self reintroduction :)

2010-09-16 Thread Ralph Morelli
Hi Greg, I'm also glad to see you on TOS again. I'm very interested in open education and the education commons and look forward to hearing more about your activities with OER and ISKME. One of the things on my agenda at Trinity this semester is to try to get a group of like-minded colleagues to

Re: [TOS] POSSE curriculum alpha release (0.8)

2010-09-16 Thread Matthew Jadud
Hi Mel, On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 20:00, Mel Chua wrote: > This is still a work in progress! Remember, I don't actually know how to > design a workshop or write a curriculum or any of that, I'm making this I would recommend buying Reigeluth's "Instructional Theory and Design II," slowing down, doi

Re: [TOS] Self reintroduction :)

2010-09-16 Thread Gregory Hislop
Hi Greg, Glad to see you pop up on TOS again. I'm also quite interested in following your shift to OER, since I have considerable interest there myself that has been growing in parallel with my interest in OSS participation by students. I strongly agree with the notion of education commons a

[TOS] Funding request: Mozilla Drumbeat

2010-09-16 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
Hi folks. I'd like to apply for $1750ish of support to attend Mozilla Drumbeat in Barcelona in November 3-5. My goals would be threefold: 1. Gather some stories to tell on opensource.com; 2. Figure out how to move the Tinygames agenda forward (see math.tinygames.org for further info, which i