[Wikide-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikis Go Printable: Wikimedia/PediaPress/COL/OSI partnership

Do Dez 13 21:13:56 UTC 2007

Die Software von Vlado kann das doch schon seit 2 Jahren, ist erprobt, hat
die Kinderkrankheiten nicht mehr und hat sich bewährt. Aus PDF werden
InDesign-Dateien, die professionell weiterverarbeitet werden können.
Kann natürlich sein, daß mein englisch nicht reicht, die mail zu verstehen,
soll kein Meckern sein - nur ein Hinweis, falls das nicht allgemein bekannt
ist.

Gruß Ralf

2007/12/13, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com>:
>
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> From: Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Dec 13, 2007 9:49 PM
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikis Go Printable:
> Wikimedia/PediaPress/COL/OSI partnership
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia textbook discussion
> <textbook-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> FYI - please forward :-)
>
> WIKIS GO PRINTABLE
>
> New open source technology will bring content from Wikipedia,
> WikiEducator, and other wikis to the world of paper.
>
> DECEMBER 13, 2007 - ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA: The Wikimedia Foundation
> today announced a partnership that will make it possible to obtain
> high quality print and word processor copies of articles from
> Wikipedia and other wiki educational resources. The development of the
> underlying open source software is supported by the Open Society
> Institute (www.soros.org) and the Commonwealth of Learning
> (www.col.org), and led by PediaPress.com, a start-up company based in
> Germany.
>
> "This technology is of key strategic importance to the cause of free
> education world-wide," said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the
> Wikimedia Foundation. "It will make it possible to use and remix wiki
> content for a variety of purposes, both in the developing and the
> developed world, in areas with connectivity and without."
>
> Deployment of the technology will happen in three stages. The first
> stage, launched today, is a public beta test running on
> WikiEducator.org of functionality for remixing collections of wiki
> pages and downloading them in the PDF format. WikiEducator is a
> project hosted by the Commonwealth of Learning and uses the same wiki
> technology as Wikipedia.
>
> "These tools have the potential to transform and improve the way we
> author and share distance education materials, textbooks and other
> learning resources -- I'm thrilled that the WikiEducator will be the
> first online community to implement them," said Wayne Mackintosh,
> Ph.D., an education specialist for the Commonwealth of Learning and
> founder of the WikiEducator project.
>
> The second stage, planned for early 2008, will be the deployment of
> the technology on the projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation,
> including Wikipedia. At this point, users will also be given the
> option to order printed copies of wiki content directly from
> PediaPress.com. "The integration into Wikipedia will be a milestone
> for print-on-demand technology. Users will literally be empowered to
> print their own encyclopedias", according to Heiko Hees, product
> manager at PediaPress.com.
>
> The third stage, planned for mid-2008, will be the addition of the
> OpenDocument format for word processors to the list of export formats.
> "Imagine that you want to use a set of wiki articles in the classroom.
> By supporting the OpenDocument format, we will make it easy for
> educators to customize and remix content before printing and
> distributing it from any desktop computer," Sue Gardner explained.
> This work is funded through a US$40,000 grant by the Open Society
> Institute.
>
> The technology developed through this cooperation will be available
> under an open source license, free for anyone to use for any purpose.
> It ties into the MediaWiki platform, the open source technology that
> runs Wikipedia. As a result, thousands of wiki platforms around the
> world will have the option of providing the same services to their
> users.
>
> CONTACTS
>
> For more information, please contact Sandra Ordonez at (727) 231-0101,
> or email her at: sordonez AT wikimedia DOT org
>
> ABOUT THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization
> dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of
> free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these
> wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. It operates some of
> the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world,
> including Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most-visited websites. The
> Foundation was created in 2003 by Jimmy Wales, the founder of
> Wikipedia.
>
> ABOUT THE COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING
>
> COL is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads
> of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open
> learning and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies.
>
> ABOUT THE OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
>
> The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking
> foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic
> governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a
> local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule
> of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same
> time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents on
> issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.
>
> ABOUT PEDIAPRESS
>
> PediaPress is a startup creating technology and services that make it
> easy to derive printed books from wiki content. The company is located
> in Mainz, Germany and has entered a long term partnership with the
> Wikimedia Foundation.
>
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