Hi Michael and all, i agree with your thoughts about MikMik, it would be a nice tool to do feedback , although yet its not entirely sugarized. i did an early work that's on
http://dev.laptop.org/~rafael/MikMik-8.xo but is not yet finished. so would be nice if somebody could help out with this porting. Cheers! On Nov 25, 2007 8:32 PM, Michael Burns < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James, you might have heard of this software, but I'll share for the rest > of the list that might not have seen in in the pipeline... > > On Nov 25, 2007 4:33 PM, James Cameron < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +1, insightful, useful. Some of the feedback mirrors what some of the > > recent Wiki questions have covered, and I agree, we seem to lack > > involvement in the Wiki from the trial deployments, the teacher > > training, and the software re-use groups. > > > It might not be the proper fit, but Mako's MikMik [0] wiki software should > go a long way to solving this problem. Essentially, it is using distributed > version control (via BZR. Similar to the linux kernel development process > with Git) and merging it with wiki software. With it, when teachers (or > Peruvian high school students) start to documenting their work (either for > lectures, coarse outlines or general tips on XO support, etc), those commits > to the school server's wiki software can trickle 'upstream' to regional, > country or global OLPC wikis for others to use and further edit. Even > Wikipedia article edits (a portion of which we include on the school > server's content library) could be filtered and vetted (or fast-tracked, > depending on user experience) from a grammar school in Peru all the way over > to the florida colo servers of the Wiki media foundation. But it is a > longer-term project to make a process like that streamlined. > > With that software (or the future iterations a work flow that MikMik > allows), getting feedback from the deployments will be a natural part of the > process. > > [0] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MikMik > > -- > Michael Burns * Student > Open Source {Education} Lab > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero One Laptop Per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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