We are very interested in bringing real-time discussion to Wikipedia. We'd like to use our Online Collaboration Platform (acutally a modified, Open-Source variant) to enable the creation of a community of "Wikistructors" - experts who are available to speak with (or text with) anyone who is on Wikipedia and wants to talk. We can also enable people to connect with others who are on the same page or who have recently been on that page (assuming all parties wish to be contacted of course). These connections would enable on-demand live chat, audio and/or video conversation.
I'm throwing this out there for comments/questions/thoughts.
Thanks!
Jeff
Jeff Levy, CEO & CoFounder OfficeHours 404.961.7001 - direct 404.323.0508 - mobile jeff@o10s.com www.officehours.co
Instant Help, Lasting Connections
Why would you want to do this? Is there a benefit to you and your company?
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Levy jeff@o10s.com To: education education@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 3:36 pm Subject: [Wikimedia Education] An idea
We are very interested in bringing real-time discussion to Wikipedia. We'd like to use our Online Collaboration Platform (acutally a modified, Open-Source variant) to enable the creation of a community of "Wikistructors" - experts who are available to speak with (or text with) anyone who is on Wikipedia and wants to talk. We can also enable people to connect with others who are on the same page or who have recently been on that page (assuming all parties wish to be contacted of course). These connections would enable on-demand live chat, audio and/or video conversation.
I'm throwing this out there for comments/questions/thoughts.
Thanks!
Jeff
Jeff Levy, CEO & CoFounder OfficeHours 404.961.7001 - direct 404.323.0508 - mobile jeff@o10s.com www.officehours.co
Instant Help, Lasting Connections
_______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Where specifically do you think it would go? Why would people use it? I've thought about this in some ways around co-editing, or collaborative information seeking activities.
Simon
From: education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: 04 April 2014 23:42 To: education@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] An idea
Why would you want to do this? Is there a benefit to you and your company?
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Levy jeff@o10s.com To: education education@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 3:36 pm Subject: [Wikimedia Education] An idea
We are very interested in bringing real-time discussion to Wikipedia. We'd like to use our Online Collaboration Platform (acutally a modified, Open-Source variant) to enable the creation of a community of "Wikistructors" - experts who are available to speak with (or text with) anyone who is on Wikipedia and wants to talk. We can also enable people to connect with others who are on the same page or who have recently been on that page (assuming all parties wish to be contacted of course). These connections would enable on-demand live chat, audio and/or video conversation.
I'm throwing this out there for comments/questions/thoughts.
Thanks!
Jeff
Jeff Levy, CEO & CoFounder
OfficeHours
404.961.7001 - direct
404.323.0508 - mobile
jeff@o10s.com
http://www.officehours.co www.officehours.co
Instant Help, Lasting Connections
_______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Hi Jeff,
One of the advantages of wikis is their asynchronous nature, allowing advantages for telecommuting, time-shifting, and distance education.
Is your collaboration platform compatible with IRC? How would you compare it to Hackpad?
Does it offer the capability to transmit and and store audio recordings for listening later? If so, from which platforms and in what formats?
Best regards, James Salsman On Apr 5, 2014 6:36 AM, "Jeff Levy" jeff@o10s.com wrote:
We are very interested in bringing real-time discussion to Wikipedia. We'd like to use our Online Collaboration Platform (acutally a modified, Open-Source variant) to enable the creation of a community of "Wikistructors" - experts who are available to speak with (or text with) anyone who is on Wikipedia and wants to talk. We can also enable people to connect with others who are on the same page or who have recently been on that page (assuming all parties wish to be contacted of course). These connections would enable on-demand live chat, audio and/or video conversation.
I'm throwing this out there for comments/questions/thoughts.
Thanks!
Jeff
*Jeff Levy, CEO & CoFounder* *OfficeHours* 404.961.7001 - direct 404.323.0508 - mobile jeff@o10s.com www.officehours.co
Instant Help, Lasting Connections
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Jeff Levy, 05/04/2014 00:36:
our Online Collaboration Platform
You mentioned this thing several times but you never said what it *is*. Please save us some time next time and be clear from the beginning. http://www.officehours.co/faq.html says "OfficeHours is only available as a Chrome Extension", which at least gives me some clue, however I can't find it in the market (let alone see its license, repository or issue tracker).
Nemo
A link to a demo would be nice.
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Jeff Levy, 05/04/2014 00:36:
our Online Collaboration Platform
You mentioned this thing several times but you never said what it *is*. Please save us some time next time and be clear from the beginning. http://www.officehours.co/faq.html says "OfficeHours is only available as a Chrome Extension", which at least gives me some clue, however I can't find it in the market (let alone see its license, repository or issue tracker).
Nemo
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
