On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Egon Willighagen <
egon.willigha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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? 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.
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).
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.
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.
P.
--
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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