TOSE LIVES! Tim resurrects the project! :-) Maybe the blog idea is much better than the newsletter. I'm game! Wordpress is a good way to go, but is there something that might be able to be organized a bit more like an online magazine? Or is that a dumb idea? I'm willing to put the e-zine together once the articles accumulate. I wonder if anyone knows any of the former TuxMag guys....maybe we could get ahold of their templates for the e-zine?
"Timothy Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Friday, May 11, 2007 at 2:14 PM +0000 wrote: >Hello all, > >Let me first introduce myself. I am Tim Hart, a technology coordinator at >a school in Maine (US for those who don't know where that is). We use >Linux pretty heavily in my school and both the teachers and students have >benefited from the goodness that Free and Open Source Software brings. > >I send this email as an invitation to all that may be interested. About a >year ago, a few people on the K12LTSP list started talking about creating >a resource for teachers and techies involved with FOSS in education. Some >ideas were thrown around but eventually it fell to the wayside. The main >idea was to provide a downloadable PDF similar to Tux Magazine. > >The idea has come up again and we are trying to push it into fruition >this time around. Obviously this needs to be a team effort, so your input >is both wanted and needed. Some of the leg work and structure has already >been done. Going back through the list archives and remembering why it >may have failed last time I think there was too much pressure of people >creating the articles in Scribus and no one putting it all together. We >can fix this however. > >My idea this time around is to have a communal blog where individuals can >author articles and publish them on the web. Once there are enough >articles a few people (who want to) can work on putting the downloadable >ezine together. The focus doesn't even have to be on a downloadable ezine >either. Having a blog with multiple authors from all tech levels and >physical regions would be a great resource for everyone involved with >FOSS in schools. > >There was some good discussion last time so I think there is a niche for >something like this. So to get this thing started I have done some leg >work (which is up for discussion as well). > >Doing this the easiest way, I created a blog at [ http://wordpress.com/ >]wordpress.com. [ http://theopensourceeducator.wordpress.com/ ] >http://theopensourceeducator.wordpress.com/ (soon to be [ >http://www.theopensourceeducator.org/ ]www.theopensourceeducator.org ). >Wordpress is both easy to use and pretty powerful to boot (GRUB of >course, ha, bootloader joke). > >I have also created a google group for discussion about TOSE and issues >around FOSS in education. [ http://groups.google.com/group/tose/ ] >http://groups.google.com/group/tose/. Again, I used googlegroups because >it was easy. I like easy. I think that is a good thing here. > >We also have the wiki that Dave Trask set up last time around. I would >suggest looking at that to see where we got to last time. [ >http://www.vcsvikings.org/tose/doku.php >]http://www.vcsvikings.org/tose/doku.php > >Please come and discuss how we get this project of the ground. If you >would post this anywhere appropriate it would be appreciated. All others >are welcome. Feedback is very welcome. > >To get involved just visit [ http://theopensourceeducator.wordpress.com/ >]http://theopensourceeducator.wordpress.com/ and see how. If you have any >questions email me back. > >Tim Hart >Glenburn School > >-- >edubuntu-users mailing list >[email protected] >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207)923-3100 -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
