Michael R. Irwin wrote:
I have been eagerly awaiting Wikiversity for about three years now as it was an obvious synergistic project. I would be curious as to what the real holdup is with it. Are we afraid of hardware or bandwidth limitations? Are a bunch of self motivated learners to potentially radical and threatening to the status quo?
Perhaps the irony is that the board has deliberately chosen not to engage in "top down management" and to let this community "manage itself". This has a lot to recommend it, because the wikiversity proposal is a lot stronger for it.
But if you are really upset that this community-driven process takes so long, then instead of clamoring for the board to not micromanage, you should perhaps ask us to do so. I am quite sure that we could get Wikiversity approved and up and running in 2-3 weeks time, if we chose to run roughshod over the community to do it.
This is actually a very typical scenario, of course.
--Jimbo