Hi Erik ... Have been doing a little thinking about the Tectonic Shift 2 concept.
It makes sense to have focused tracks -- one technical and one educational. I think that I should be able to put together an educational track for Tectonic Shift 2 during our PCF5 conference in London in July. BTW -- we have an optional avenue for folk to author their papers in WE: http://wikieducator.org/PCF5. Given our growth over the last year -- we can warrant two separate tracks <smile>. I really like the idea of a dedicated technical track as well, and it would really be great if we could bring together some of the future WE server admin team together with the MW gurus @ WMF. Thinking hard here ... I could probably get some funding together to cover travel and accommodation of the WE related team -- my limitation, as a Commonwealth agency is that I would need to host the technical track in a Commonwealth country. Preferably a location where I can optimise travel costs. Would it be possible for some of the WMF folk to travel? It would also be good if we could bring some of the Connexions and Educommons techies on board as well. If we can find a funding source -- perhaps a PediaPress & Kaltura rep as well? Are there any institutions in Commonwealth countries on the list who would be able to host a MW code hackathon? Taking into account the technical demands of a few geeks coding the future of MW for education? COL head office in Vancouver is naturally available -- but not sure if this is the optimal environment for a hackathon. Any ideas or offers? Cheers Wayne On Feb 7, 10:43 am, "Erik Moeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/6/08, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That said -- none of this would have been possible without your vision > > and foresight. 2008 is going to be an amazing year. What about a 2nd > > Tectonic Shift Think Tank? > > Wayne, > > a second tectonic shift think tank sounds like a great idea, if we can > find funding for it. My preference would be something that's either a > little more explicitly technical, or that has clearly separate tracks. > The input from users and educators is essential, but we also need some > dedicated facetime to talk about xhtml interchange formats, parser > issues, metadata standards -- and maybe even get some code written. > :-) > > It might also be an opportunity to bring together some of the future > wikied server admin team members, and to have them mingle with WMF > folks. > > If we target 10 - 15 people, our office should provide enough space. > We're not huge, but we should be able to hook up additional folks > remotely. > > Let's look at our funding options - any suggestions from the list? > > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
