On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 01:51, Kevin Mark <kevin.m...@verizon.net> wrote: > material still being private. So do you think your list is going to be > permanently private?
Hi Mark, My hope is that the list isn't permanent at all. I think (but could be wrong) that the spirit of such a list is for private discussion of current/timely events. Anything that's longer term than "right now" is (1) almost certainly not a "private" conversation, (2) will benefit from community input, and (3) should be killed/nuked/purged after some finite period of time. The private list should have no archival qualities, IMHO. (Nor do I expect it to have any archival value.) Because we have to deal with FERPA and other issues, it is good for the faculty to have a private bail-out, but we're all committed to working in an open space. I think, in this case, you have to trust the faculty involved to use their professional judgement as to when something *needs* to be private, and if something doesn't, then trust us to encourage each-other to put it on the main list/the wiki/etc. In a nutshell, if we're trying to bring FOSS into our classroom context, there will be little value if we don't similarly open our own educational context to the community. We know that, but we also know that sometimes we have to discuss things privately for reasons beyond our control. I don't know if that helps or not. Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
