On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Egon Willighagen > <egon.willigha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was just wondering... how (un)common are tutorials like this in the >> Blue Obelisk community? >> > Does "like this" mean that there are a series of humans giving online > tuition?
Yes, sorry for being short on detail. > Because if so I think it depends on funding - with the best will in > the world it's unlikely that many unfunded people will give *repeated* > online tutorials gratis. This is a significantly funded (EU) activity. It is indeed. I have been thinking though to do the same for the CDK, but funding resources to actually do so is indeed limited :( > If it means "using Blue Obelisk software as the main software/data resource > in the tutorial" then I would expect this to become commoner as the Blue > Obelisk shows that software can be both libre and good. But again it depends > on the ability to get human tutors. I expect this to increase rapidly for > Quixote/Blue_Obelisk and I'll blog why. (Indeed I believe that all > undergraduate teaching software/data should be libre/gratis). It is also very beneficial for community building around the BO component. > If you mean "putting out libre tutorial material for re-use" then I don't > know as by default the material is not libre (it has no licence and is > explicitly copyrighted). I hope this is an oversight by the OpenTox > community and they mean to licence all this as as CC-BY or CC0. In which > case I think there is an incresing amount of such material. I'll relay that question. > FWIW you could regard our videos of OSCAR > (http://www-pmr.ch.cam.ac.uk/wiki/OSCAR4_Launch and > http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1130934 ) as quasi-tutorial - humans > explaining how to do things in a well-documented area. I would hope to see > much more of this and because of the technical success we plan to re-create > similar videos for more Blue Obelisk products. This may be an opportunity > for the OpenBabel meeting later this summer. Sounds good! Is YouTube hosting planned, making it easy to embed the video's in blogs? The QA-side of a online tutorial is missing with video's, but there is our QA website of course... Egon -- Dr E.L. Willighagen Postdoctoral Researcher Institutet för miljömedicin Karolinska Institutet (http://ki.se/imm) Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
