2011/5/23 Ian Weller <i...@ianweller.org>: > (Looks like your email cut in two here... missing point number 1.)
It was too amazing to share with you, so I removed it after writing it. (Actually, in my original draft, it's gone too. Dunno what point 1 was. I'm sure it was amazing, though.) > So something like Redmine + VCS for each university? Are you also > suggesting a separate planet/EtherPad instance for each as well? > > I'm fairly certain OSUOSL has an out-of-the-box solution already > (correct me if I'm wrong, Jeff) for Redmine + VCS that could be spun up > fairly instantly for each university. I suspect that having one etherpad instance easily found at TOS.org would be good. (Where "at" might mean a URL redirect, etc.) We thought it would be nice if there was a way to provide a "planet in a box." This would serve multiple purposes: providing institutions with an easy way to advertise their students' FOSS participation, and also provide easy-access material for keeping up on multiple institutions and their efforts. I can think of a few models for how to do this in a lightweight manner. We were assuming that there was infrastructure (e.g. OSUOSL's work) that could potentially be leveraged in this way, but we were not sure how to move that conversation forward. We're not interested in recreating wheels, but we are interested in lowering as many bars as possible for faculty to experiment with and learn the tools and technologies involved in FOSS. Looking at http://osuosl.org/services/hosting and http://osuosl.org/services/hosting/policy what we're suggesting doesn't seem to quite fit the model. Or, perhaps it does. If someone could point me at an instance of what a "turnkey" setup like this looks like, that would be great. But, yes: turnkey is good. Minimizing work is good. We didn't quite get down to the "how" of things, but we know that there are some needs that are consistently showing up for educators as they try and navigate into this space. Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
