Hi Mr. Irwin!
On Sunday 09 July 2006 08:00, Michael R. Irwin wrote:
Shlomi Fish wrote:
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Actually, my Perl for Newbies series of Presentations is not part of
wikibooks. I wrote it before I was aware of wikipedia and possibly before
wikibooks existed. It was written using Quad-Pres, which is a sort-of home
grown HTML slides generator.
Like I said, the text and code in the slides are public domain, so they
could be integrated into separate works. Part of them were already
reformated into tutorials or howto's as part of
http://perlmeme.org/. [1]
I have some ideas for a 5th or 6th presentation or perhaps I need to beef
up my 4th presentatio, but I'll have to start writing them.
Hi Shlomi,
You might consider developing some lesson plans or placing your slide
presentations into the public commons under an FDL at an appropriate
location in Wikiversity.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity
The presentations are under the Public Domain (as defined by Creative Commons
and as I and most other people understand it.) As such they can be converted
into any other licence, including the GNU FDL. I'd prefer that people who
redistribute and make modifications to them keep them under the PD, but they
are naturally allowed to.
What do you mean by "lesson plans"? Also what exactly is the wikiversity? I
could not understand what it is from the description on the homepage.
We do not have formal approval to proceed yet but an administrator at
Wikibooks (Robert Horning) has articulated an excellent plan to
duplicate the Wikibooks wiki at the
en.wikiversity.org domain and then
delete or modify inappropriate materials and link structures in both
wikis to minimize rework once we have authority from the Wikimedia
Foundation Board to proceed with Wikiversity on Wikimedia Foundation
infrastructure.
I see.
I should note that one thing that may be missing from my Perl slides are
exercises for people to perform by themselves.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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