Guys,
we are creating an open source, nonprofit, e-learning social network and looking for people to help.
Any interested send an email to infinitunm@infinitunm.com or to me eros.phill@gmail.com
regards eros
Hi!
Could you please stop spamming this?
Best,
Huib
2011/6/18, Phillipe, Eros eros.phill@gmail.com:
Guys,
we are creating an open source, nonprofit, e-learning social network and looking for people to help.
Any interested send an email to infinitunm@infinitunm.com or to me eros.phill@gmail.com
regards eros _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Sorry. It was not intention to offend anyone. Is just that we have a very good project and we seek volunteers to help. My apologies.
On Saturday, June 18, 2011, Phillipe, Eros eros.phill@gmail.com wrote:
Guys,
we are creating an open source, nonprofit, e-learning social network and looking for people to help. Any interested send an email to infinitunm@infinitunm.com or to me eros.phill@gmail.com
regardseros
On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Phillipe, Eros wrote:
Sorry. It was not intention to offend anyone. Is just that we have a very good project and we seek volunteers to help. My apologies.
Well, if you actually provided information about your project - how you want it to work, what kind of technology you want to implement, how that applies for mediawiki community, what new challenges you want to resolve, what existing software you want to reuse, etc - you would be way more successful. Though probably the most important thing is how much work you've done so far, to show that you're serious at it.
At the moment this wasn't a very good pitch. I already know a very good social network anyway!
Domas
Alright, fair enough. Let me share with you guys:
I'm from Brazil and we are starting a project to share knowledge between people and create an open source, free and nonprofit e-learning social network. So, we are all volunteers.
The whole concept of the project is that knowledge should be a universal right, and there's no reason why a boy who lives in a slam, in rio, for example, not to have access to the same knowledge as boy who is at MIT.
Ok,.. right now, there's me more a group of people working as volunteers on this platform. basically, the system today is being built on PHP with my SQL and we have tried to implement mediawiki as a way to allow people to interact with each other.. the main problems are.. content are split mainly in 3 groups on the internet
1) academics (harvard, mit, yale, cambridge, khan academy courses online etc) 2) users (youtube videos with lectures, people trying to teach something, tutorials) 3) articles - published and non published
so we need 1) to create ways for people to feed a database with their own inputs on these 3 groups 2) to organize and categorize this information in a automatic way (a crawler, tags, some index system) 3) to enable "social translation" into each video - and this is very important.. 4) to enable users to share their own material 5) to enable users to connect with each other and solve doubts in common (and create a trend topics on that), create users communities to discuss academics topics and so on..
there are more features, but basically that's what we have in mind - and we're looking for people to help on the project. If it works, we can help a lot of people who don't have access to formal education and don't necessarily speak English.
We've got already some good partnerships with some organizations, and an agreement with Stanford for them to use our translations on Youtube and iTunes U if we be able to do it..
Well, that's it. I'm not Bono, but I hope it works my propaganda.
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:12, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Phillipe, Eros wrote:
Sorry. It was not intention to offend anyone. Is just that we have a very good project and we seek volunteers to help. My apologies.
Well, if you actually provided information about your project - how you want it to work, what kind of technology you want to implement, how that applies for mediawiki community, what new challenges you want to resolve, what existing software you want to reuse, etc - you would be way more successful. Though probably the most important thing is how much work you've done so far, to show that you're serious at it.
At the moment this wasn't a very good pitch. I already know a very good social network anyway!
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Phillipe,
Your project and philosophy sound wonderful, but I don't think MediaWiki, as great as it is, is the right tool for the job. Since you are already working with PHP and MySQL, I'd highly recommend considering Drupal. It was designed specifically with social networking sites in mind, and it has a lot more features built-in that MediaWiki does not. Also, if you are placing a lot of importance on user input, you will better be able to control user accounts and security with Drupal than in MediaWiki.
Don't get me wrong; I love MediaWiki. But I think you'll find that you need much more than any wiki software provides to really achieve the level of social interaction that you're going for.
Best,
Nina
Nina McHale, MA/MSLS Assistant Professor, Web Librarian University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library Facebook & Twitter: ninermac http://milehighbrarian.net
On 6/18/11 3:52 AM, "Phillipe, Eros" eros.phill@gmail.com wrote:
Alright, fair enough. Let me share with you guys:
I'm from Brazil and we are starting a project to share knowledge between people and create an open source, free and nonprofit e-learning social network. So, we are all volunteers.
The whole concept of the project is that knowledge should be a universal right, and there's no reason why a boy who lives in a slam, in rio, for example, not to have access to the same knowledge as boy who is at MIT.
Ok,.. right now, there's me more a group of people working as volunteers on this platform. basically, the system today is being built on PHP with my SQL and we have tried to implement mediawiki as a way to allow people to interact with each other.. the main problems are.. content are split mainly in 3 groups on the internet
1) academics (harvard, mit, yale, cambridge, khan academy courses online etc) 2) users (youtube videos with lectures, people trying to teach something, tutorials) 3) articles - published and non published
so we need 1) to create ways for people to feed a database with their own inputs on these 3 groups 2) to organize and categorize this information in a automatic way (a crawler, tags, some index system) 3) to enable "social translation" into each video - and this is very important.. 4) to enable users to share their own material 5) to enable users to connect with each other and solve doubts in common (and create a trend topics on that), create users communities to discuss academics topics and so on..
there are more features, but basically that's what we have in mind - and we're looking for people to help on the project. If it works, we can help a lot of people who don't have access to formal education and don't necessarily speak English.
We've got already some good partnerships with some organizations, and an agreement with Stanford for them to use our translations on Youtube and iTunes U if we be able to do it..
Well, that's it. I'm not Bono, but I hope it works my propaganda.
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:12, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Phillipe, Eros wrote:
Sorry. It was not intention to offend anyone. Is just that we have a very good project and we seek volunteers to help. My apologies.
Well, if you actually provided information about your project - how you want it to work, what kind of technology you want to implement, how that applies for mediawiki community, what new challenges you want to resolve, what existing software you want to reuse, etc - you would be way more successful. Though probably the most important thing is how much work you've done so far, to show that you're serious at it.
At the moment this wasn't a very good pitch. I already know a very good social network anyway!
Domas _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Nina, thanks for the suggesion. I will certainly take a look.
If you want help, we got already some people from Michigan University, BYU and Chicago University helping. It would be a pleasure.
On Sunday, June 19, 2011, McHale, Nina Nina.McHale@ucdenver.edu wrote:
Phillipe,
Your project and philosophy sound wonderful, but I don't think MediaWiki, as great as it is, is the right tool for the job. Since you are already working with PHP and MySQL, I'd highly recommend considering Drupal. It was designed specifically with social networking sites in mind, and it has a lot more features built-in that MediaWiki does not. Also, if you are placing a lot of importance on user input, you will better be able to control user accounts and security with Drupal than in MediaWiki.
Don't get me wrong; I love MediaWiki. But I think you'll find that you need much more than any wiki software provides to really achieve the level of social interaction that you're going for.
Best,
Nina
Nina McHale, MA/MSLS Assistant Professor, Web Librarian University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library Facebook & Twitter: ninermac http://milehighbrarian.net
On 6/18/11 3:52 AM, "Phillipe, Eros" eros.phill@gmail.com wrote:
Alright, fair enough. Let me share with you guys:
I'm from Brazil and we are starting a project to share knowledge between people and create an open source, free and nonprofit e-learning social network. So, we are all volunteers.
The whole concept of the project is that knowledge should be a universal right, and there's no reason why a boy who lives in a slam, in rio, for example, not to have access to the same knowledge as boy who is at MIT.
Ok,.. right now, there's me more a group of people working as volunteers on this platform. basically, the system today is being built on PHP with my SQL and we have tried to implement mediawiki as a way to allow people to interact with each other.. the main problems are.. content are split mainly in 3 groups on the internet
- academics (harvard, mit, yale, cambridge, khan academy courses online
etc) 2) users (youtube videos with lectures, people trying to teach something, tutorials) 3) articles - published and non published
so we need
- to create ways for people to feed a database with their own inputs on
these 3 groups 2) to organize and categorize this information in a automatic way (a crawler, tags, some index system) 3) to enable "social translation" into each video - and this is very important.. 4) to enable users to share their own material 5) to enable users to connect with each other and solve doubts in common (and create a trend topics on that), create users communities to discuss academics topics and so on..
there are more features, but basically that's what we have in mind - and we're looking for people to help on the project. If it works, we can help a lot of people who don't have access to formal education and don't necessarily speak English.
We've got already some good partnerships with some organizations, and an agreement with Stanford for them to use our translations on Youtube and iTunes U if we be able to do it..
Well, that's it. I'm not Bono, but I hope it works my propaganda.
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:12, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Phillipe, Eros wrote:
Sorry. It was not intention to offend anyone. Is just that we have a very good project and we seek volunteers to help. My apologies.
Well, if you actually provided information about your project - how you want it to work, what kind of technology you want to implement, how that applies for mediawiki community, what new challenges you want to resolve, what existing software you want to reuse, etc - you would be way more successful. Though probably the most important thing is how much work you've done so far, to show that you're serious at it.
At the moment this wasn't a very good pitch. I already know a very good social network anyway!
Domas _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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I'm not gmailed, linked-in, facebooked or my-spaced. I guess I'm not very social.
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On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Eros wrote:
At the moment this wasn't a very good pitch. I already know a very good
social network anyway!
But I wish you the best for your project.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve VanSlyck" s.vanslyck@spamcop.net To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:28:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help - Social Network
I'm not gmailed, linked-in, facebooked or my-spaced. I guess I'm not very social.
----- Original Message -----
On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Eros wrote:
At the moment this wasn't a very good pitch. I already know a very good
social network anyway!
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My 2cents: Mediawiki is not for elearning. Have you looked into software like moodle and alike?
Ruud
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad
Op 18 jun. 2011 om 07:56 heeft "Phillipe, Eros" eros.phill@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:
Guys,
we are creating an open source, nonprofit, e-learning social network and looking for people to help.
Any interested send an email to infinitunm@infinitunm.com or to me eros.phill@gmail.com
regards eros _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Yeap..but they don't allow the type of user interaction we are looking for..Moodle is a very poor platform, actually, for what we need.
Most of the content comes from youtube and sites alike.. All the content from itunes u, for example, it's on youtube, but mostly only available on it's original languages, with no interaction, no user input or output.. No possibilities for users themselves to translate that content..that's what we are trying to come out with.. And we seek help from developers who like the cause and wish to make it happen
We need help.
On Saturday, June 18, 2011, Ruud Habets ruud.habets@gmail.com wrote:
My 2cents: Mediawiki is not for elearning. Have you looked into software like moodle and alike?
Ruud
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad
Op 18 jun. 2011 om 07:56 heeft "Phillipe, Eros" eros.phill@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:
Guys,
we are creating an open source, nonprofit, e-learning social network and looking for people to help.
Any interested send an email to infinitunm@infinitunm.com or to me eros.phill@gmail.com
regards eros _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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I would also like to note that I am actually looking at using other software for my project after 2 years of mediawiki because I would like it to behave more like a social network. I too love mediawiki, but I think it is the wrong choice for your project.
On Jun 18, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Phillipe, Eros wrote:
Guys,
we are creating an open source, nonprofit, e-learning social network and looking for people to help.
Any interested send an email to infinitunm@infinitunm.com or to me eros.phill@gmail.com
regards eros _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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