I would like to remind those of you who are bloggers to consider
joining Planet Wikimedia, which has grown nicely in recent weeks:
http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/
(Polish also active, German about to go live)
It shows recent wiki-tagged posts from Wikimedians on one page. You
can add your blog by putting a request for inclusion on:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia
Included blogs should tag their wiki-related posts, or be exclusively
about the topic. This policy has made Planet Wikimedia, in my opinion,
highly on topic and useful, and I would love to see it scale to
hundreds of blogs eventually. Hence, no exceptions. ;-)
For those of you from smaller projects: Think of this as an excellent
opportunity to promote the best work your project is doing, to get new
people excited about it. As an example of this principle, take a look
what some English Wikinewsies are doing in the "Original Reporting"
group blog: http://wikinewsreports.blogspot.com/
If you don't have a blog yet, you can set one up easily, e.g. at:
http://wordpress.com/ or http://blogger.com
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of
the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
"An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open,
free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic
Hi Lizy,
Thanks for getting back to me. Yes I do give lectures but I believe you
will soon get to know me.
How about you? Yes I'm really single and love to know you well too.
Hoping to hear from you.
Kind regards.
Isaac Dear Isaac,
About what do you give lectures and how will I soon get to know you?
I don't give lectures but I like to attend them at Caltech in Pasadena,
California. Where do you live?
Elizabeth
************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
Thanks, I am interested know more E-commerce and the trouble shooting.
Regards
Puthalath
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Well,
I don't know who you are, but if you give lectures, I'm intrigued. Are cute
and single?
Elizabeth
************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
Hi all,
I attended a really fascinating conference in Rice University
(Houston, Texas) a fortnight or so ago, hosted by the Hewlett
Foundation, dedicated to the world of Open Educational Resources
(OER). I was there with Erik Moeller and SJ Klein, along with
representatives of many OER projects and organising/funding bodies,
such as UNESCO, UNICEF, OLPC, MIT, Open University UK, Moore
Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and many more. The report about the
OER movement written for the conference is available from
<http://www.oerderves.org/?p=23> - the authors recommend, amongst
other things, the development of an "Open Participatory Learning
Infrastructure" as a next phase of developing simply OERs. I heartily
recommend reading this report - it contains some excellent points
about this movement/process, as well as many links to relevant
projects and papers.
Interesting ideas that have been sparked in my mind as a result of
this meeting and various readings include:
* Granularity - what is the smallest piece of a particular resource
that can be tagged and reused? Is it the whole document, a part of the
document, an activity, an applet, an embedded video, a
sentence/question..? How can resources (or parts of resources) be
aggregated to create a learning resource/schema appropriate for a
particular person's or class's learning context? It seems to me that
the more we recognise the fact that our resources will be used in a
variety of contexts, the more we are required to define those multiple
uses of the material, in order to allow for its greater flexibility in
its use and reuse. However, this doesn't have to be done at the moment
of uploading, of course, which brings me to..
* Semantics/Tagging/Metadata - It seems imperative to tag material as
specifically as possible, in order to allow for greater ease of
searching. How does a teacher currently look for resources specific to
their context? In Wikiversity, our current system of tagging (ie
categories) is ok, but it is fairly hit-and-miss as to whether they
would find something specific to a class of 11-year-olds, or
university postgraduates. So far, in Wikiversity, our system of
specifying what a resource is for has not been so good - and this is
something that I think we need to look into. Should we simply
implement a system like Semantic MediaWiki
<http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Main_Page> and see how it works?
* Licensing - this is a real headache amongst OER projects - how do we
deal with material that is licensed under a Non-Commercial license on
Wikiversity? Simple answer: we can't. There needs to be a good deal of
work done on trying to harmonise licenses so that they can be used
together - at least in practical contexts, like a teacher aggregating
them into a book. A new initiative of Creative Commons, CC-Learn, will
be attempting to work on this issues, and help free-content projects
better work together. If you're in a reading mood, David Wiley (who I
met at the meeting) has drafted a book chapter about a hypothetical
future of the NC license - it's at:
<http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/313#more-313>.
* Developing world and mobile devices - The vast majority of the
world's population lives in the developing world, and if we are to
truly revolutionise the world of education, we must not only recognise
this fact, but do something real about it. Doing something real means
making education available and accessible to all. The internet is a
great step in this direction, but most people in the world do not have
a computer or easy access to one - much more common is mobile devices,
like phones. The more we make content accessible to non-computer
devices (as well as to computers, of course), the more they will be
accessible to a huge proportion of the world's population.
Finally, I should mention a collaboration between Wikiversity and
Connexions <http://cnx.org/> (and others), about which we had a
pre-conference meeting. This collaboration is in planning at the
moment, and funding bid is underway (project management will be by the
Connexions team), but it will basically consist of a technical bridge
between Wikiversity and Connexions so that both projects can directly
and easily import resources from the other for their own use. It will
initially involve the development of material (on a particular
subject) that can be imported both ways. This is a "proof of concept"
- that resources can be made interoperable between projects - rather
than a full-scale project, and hopefully it could spark a bigger, more
developed project that would take many more projects into
consideration. The content developed will be licensed under the CC-BY
licence, and will also be used by the One Laptop Per Child project.
There are a number of ideas for the subject matter of this
collaboration, though it is to be relevant to children in the
developing world - ideas range from "How This Works" to "Digging a
well/irrigation ditch". Teachers Without Borders will also be
providing input on the subject-matter of the collaboration.
Overall, OER has achieved "nascent movement status" (conference
report, p. 6), and is "poised to explode in coming years"
<http://onthecommons.org/node/1124>. I think that working with other
projects, like Connexions, will be of significant benefit to everyone
- and that we should continue to reflect on how we work individually
and what we can learn from eachother. I'll set up now a set of pages
that can help further these ideas - I'll post about this to the
Colloquium, and give links here on the list.
Cheers,
Cormac
Well,
I don't know who you are, but if you give lectures, I'm intrigued. Are cute
and single?
Elizabeth
************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
I want to start a page of information on Risk Management and Safety.
Can this be done?
I will send you my biography.
One of the consultations that I do is for the Small Business Administration.
SCORE> Cyber Counseling. There are many more.
Please advise if this can even be done.
Thank you,
June Ramsay
anodyne(a)hotmail.com
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I'm (re)sending this to lots of lists -- people, we need more
submissions! Please be bold in sending us your papers -- we'd love to
see you in Taiwan this year. :-)
Please forward to other relevant lists as well! See
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation/distribution
for the ones we've already covered.
Erik
- - - -
Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is a community event, which is also
open to the public and to researchers. This year's conference will be
held from August 3-5, 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan at Chien Tan Overseas
Youth Activity Center. For more information, please visit the
Wikimania site:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/
Send your submissions through:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission
We are accepting submissions for posters, presentations, workshops,
and discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speakers
and speaker panels, and suggestions for other activities. Please note
the details below and be bold in your submissions!
== Important dates ==
* 1 March – 30 April: Submission
* 1 May – 31 May: Feedback and notification of acceptance
* 3 – 5 Aug 2007 : Wikimania
== Conference Themes ==
Submissions should address one or more of the following themes:
* Wikimedia Communities – Interesting projects and particularities
within the communities (we explicitly invite you to present your local
Wikimedia project's community!); policy creation within individual
projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and
identity; multilingualism, languages and cultures; social studies.
* Free Content – Open access to information; ways to gather and
distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in
education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and
usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with
Wikimedia projects.
* Technical infrastructure – Issues related to MediaWiki
development and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for
development (including usable case studies from other wikis or similar
projects).
Your topic must be related to Wikimedia projects and its communities
or to the creation of free content in general.
== Types of Submissions ==
We are seeking submissions for
* presentations (10–30 minute talks with optional short or full papers)
* posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on their own)
* workshops (30–120 minute session with more involvement of the audience)
* panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject)
* Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) (45-60 minute informal meetup of group
discussion on a particular topic)
* artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or
other representations of some aspect of the projects)
== Guidelines ==
Wikimania is organized by volunteers, so please help us to minimize
wasted effort by following these guidelines carefully before
submitting and be sure not to forget anything that is mentioned here.
All submissions must explicitly include the following:
* an English title
* a short English abstract of 50 to 100 words. The abstracts should be
provided as plain text, and not as file attachments. This abstract
will be used as public description of your submission in the
conference program
* a detailed description (or full paper) of at least one page (300
words or more). This description will not be published unless you want
it, but used for reviewing your submission. Give an overview of the
areas to be covered or taught. State clearly the relevance to the
Wikimedia projects and whether submission concerns a specific wiki
project. You may use any language, but we strongly suggest English or
Chinese. Full descriptions may include a link to a full paper or
slides in HTML or PDF, if available.
* full name, email address, and a short bio of 1–3 sentences for each
author. You may also add wiki usernames and nicknames.
* the type of submission (presentation, poster, workshop, panel, BoF, artistic)
* the language(s) you are going to talk in (or the language of your poster)
Please tell us with your submission whether you will attend to
Wikimania (a) surely, (b) probably, (c) only if your submission is
accepted, or (d) only if we provide travel and/or accommodation.
Additionally, please specify:
* the target audience you are going to reach and what previous
knowledge is needed
* special requirements (such as equipment for a workshop or panel) if needed
* images or sketches of the poster or artistic artifact if available
* for panel submissions short biographies of each suggested panelist
* whether the presentation is intended to be a specific length.
* BoF proposals should describe the significance of and community
interest in the topic, and name the proposed discussion leader(s).
For poster sessions there are additional guidelines:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poster_session
Please note that all submissions must be dual licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later and the Creative
Commons Attribution License.
== Submissions ==
Once you are sure you have included all of the required information,
please send your submission by the respective deadline through our
submission system:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission
Please do not send submissions by email. If you need help for
translating your work please visit our translation help page.
Questions, but not submissions, may be directed to cfp(a)wikimedia.org.
== Hacking Days ==
Before the main conference there will also be informal Hacking days
for MediaWiki developers who are familiar with the software, If you
are interested in joining it, please visit:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning/Hacking_Days_Extra_2007
== See also ==
* About the venue: http://www.cyh.org.tw/
* Brainstorming page for program ideas:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Ideas
* Editable list of attendees: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees
* WikiSym 2007 (October 21-23, 2007, Montreal), an alternative wiki
conference: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
I've started the following page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Toolset
to collect a list of open source tools & open formats that are
commonly used to support Wikimedia projects. Mainly, this is for
external tools, rather than those developed within our community,
though I don't mind if it is expanded to cover both.
The purpose of having this page is to better inform decision-making
processes on all levels:
* directing volunteers who want to help us to work on particularly
useful open source projects
* directing editors to tools that help them with their day-to-day work
* possibly, even (when the Foundation is a bit more sustainable)
considering awarding development grants to some of them, or at least
helping them to pursue them by endorsing their grant proposals to
other organizations
* identifying key "missing pieces" that are not covered or not covered
well by the existing toolset (this might be a separate list).
I know many of you use specialized tools that are not well known.
There are also sure to be glaring omissions in the current list. I
would therefore appreciate all help to complete it.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of
the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
"An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open,
free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic