Hi Maria, I'm very excited about the new prospects for WE. We have a solid foundations to take our project to new levels -- and you're right, WE is an amazing community!
I'm glad you found our open proposal useful for your own grant writing process --- by sharing we reduce duplication of effort and make a small contribution to sustainability and more effective utilisation of scarce resources in education. Pioneered by the Shuttleworth foundation and the compelling insights of Mark Surman -- Open Philanthropy makes a lot of sense -- the concept of "open sourcing" philanthropy is very powerful. Take a look at how the Shuttleworth foundation have implemented the concepts (See: http://tinyurl.com/p3pvft ). I'm keen for us at WE to build on these experiences. Always interested in collobarting -- thanks for the offer re WYSIWYG editing. Let's explore this further. The FCKeditor extension for Mediawiki has matured over the last couple of months --- particularly with the activity and contributions from Wikia. Once we've migrated to our Phase 2 hosting solution, the next step is to seriously research the implementation of a rich text editing solution for WE -- along with the development and refinement in our policy guidelines for new technologies. I think WYSIWYG will potentially lower the barriers of entry for many educators -- there have been numerous requests for WYSIWYG editing from our community -- let's see if we can respond appropriately :-). Cheers Wayne 2009/5/11 Maria Droujkova <[email protected]> > > Wayne, > > These are all great news. I am so happy for you and WE! It's a great > community. > > I would like to thank you for opening your proposal building process. > I am working on an SBIR grant for Natural Math for the Family Studies > supporting software I discussed on the list earlier, and your proposal > is quite helpful. I will be happy to share ours if you think it would > be of use to others. > > Speaking of which, our wiki parts have a WYSIWYG editor that works > pretty well, including picture upload and inserting widgets (e.g. > youtube video). If it would help your efforts to collaborate on this > or other parts of your endeavors, please let me know. > > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Wayne Mackintosh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > At last -- a long overdue update. > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > MariaD > > Make math your own, to make your own math. > > http://www.naturalmath.com social math site > http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath math authoring for kids email > group > http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations > > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
