We'll definitely have an online backchannel. I'm trying to get a group working on an etherpad + irc. Currently posted a thought @ wikibooks and pointed to it from other book-writing communities (pls point your favorite communities to it :)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Reading_room/Projects#Open_textbook_h...
SJ
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Jean-Jacques . jjrousseau10@gmail.comwrote:
My field is philosophy of physics and if there is anyway I can participate remotely, I would love to. Please advise. Cheers. On Oct 15, 2012 5:29 PM, "Samuel Klein" meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Interested in going to this? I'll be there for at least part of that weekend.
From: Dora Gao dora@boundlesslearning.com dora@boundlesslearning.com
My name is Dora and I work for an education technology company called Boundless in Boston. I am reaching out to you regarding a textbook hackathon Boundless is hosting in a few weeks.
We're pulling together a group of Boston area physics teachers, grad students, researchers, and undergrads with TA experience to join us at Boundless for a hackathon weekend. Essentially, it's a way to meet and mingle with fellow physicists enthusiasts while creating a free, open physics textbook for students and teachers to use soon. To create the textbook the group will be pulling from free, openly-licensed educational sources online (we'll explain the whole process during a fun orientation night). Here's some more info about the hackathon: http://textbookhackathon.eventbrite.com/
I would love if you could share the event with your physics contacts!
A little background on Boundless http://www.boundless.com: The company is based in Boston and has raised almost $10M in venture capital to date. We're is aiming to make education more affordable and accessible for students by curating the best open educational resources. We currently have free, open textbook alternatives for eight subjects, and physics is one we're planning to share with the community soon!
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So I did go to this briefly. It seemed tough to work directly with others, given the setup; each author was expected to work indeoendently on their chapter, which was then sent off for proofing and at that point closed off to even the author who had been working on it. Very close to the original Nupedia model applied to texts. They have funding to throw at the problem, so perhaps they will make that model work. They certainly have a great office location, right adjacent to the South Street Diner near S. Station.
My general feeling is we should be strongly supporting and helping the Saylor Foundation do their thing, because all of the other efforts including this one are drawing on that model (building better or more specialized interfaces, or working with different reuse channels, or... ). And Saylor & Wikibooks have a strong capacity to merge their processes in the future, both having completely open workflows.
SJ
On Friday, October 19, 2012 12:11:46 PM UTC-4, Samuel Klein wrote:
We'll definitely have an online backchannel. I'm trying to get a group working on an etherpad + irc. Currently posted a thought @ wikibooks and pointed to it from other book-writing communities (pls point your favorite communities to it :)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Reading_room/Projects#Open_textbook_h...
SJ
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Jean-Jacques . jjrousseau10@gmail.comwrote:
My field is philosophy of physics and if there is anyway I can participate remotely, I would love to. Please advise. Cheers. On Oct 15, 2012 5:29 PM, "Samuel Klein" meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Interested in going to this? I'll be there for at least part of that weekend.
We're pulling together a group of Boston area physics teachers, grad students, researchers, and undergrads with TA experience to join us at Boundless for a hackathon weekend. Essentially, it's a way to meet and mingle with fellow physicists enthusiasts while creating a free, open physics textbook for students and teachers to use soon. To create the textbook the group will be pulling from free, openly-licensed educational sources online (we'll explain the whole process during a fun orientation night). Here's some more info about the hackathon: http://textbookhackathon.eventbrite.com/
I would love if you could share the event with your physics contacts!
A little background on Boundless http://www.boundless.com: The company is based in Boston and has raised almost $10M in venture capital to date. We're is aiming to make education more affordable and accessible for students by curating the best open educational resources. We currently have free, open textbook alternatives for eight subjects, and physics is one we're planning to share with the community soon!
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