Ian Lynch schreef:
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 18:38 +0100, Steven Pauwels wrote:
These recurring discussions mean that there is a need... and the CC
refuses to egnoledge this need.
Seems so - glad you said it not me though ;-)
maybe we could use moodle? Nice and adaptable, but I am sure there are
other tools. If we need hosting with php and mysql support, I will
provide it.
Maybe there should be a fundamental re-think about how participation
occurs. In education here all the talk is about Web 2.0 and it changing
the paradigm for learning because students can freely form their own
learning communities and easily collaborate to create new information.
Wikipedia shows that you can give more freedom than was thought sensible
and by opening up the contributions more resources come to the table.
There has been quite a lot of talk about Wikis - maybe its time to
analyse all aspects of the project and decide which essentially need to
be secure through SSH tunnels etc and which can be openly participative
Wiki-style. There is a potential reduction in costs for Sun in doing
this because it reduces the demand for Collabnet. That of course might
be a political thing in that Collabnet might not want to reduce its
contribution but even if the same resource was committed better value
would be achieved because that resource would be more focussed and one
would therefore expect better quality in that area of the work. Hosting
a Wiki is really trivial, getting one started is trivial, the
non-trivial bit is to get agreement from the CC to do it under the name
of OpenOffice.org. Personally I can't see any disadvantage in things
like the marketing project and documentation projects being wikis.
Probably a number of the others too but I don't know enough about them.
The advantage would be that it would be easier to contribute and any
lowering of the barriers to participation has to be a good thing.
Regards,
Lowering the barriers to participation is the first thing to do... The
CC has to open them!
Steven P
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