Dear Wayne, Congratulations. We are proud of you and the Wikieducator. WYSWYG will help bring in many more people into the OER community. Will do the testing and report.
Am continuing to talk about the Wikieducator all over the place - conducted a 2-day workshop at Dhaka, made a presentation to M.Ed students at RIE, Mysore, one to teachers at a Workshop in Maitreyi college (they've asked me to conduct a full fledged workshop for them soon), Delhi Univ.. Best, Savithri 2010/1/27 Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > Hi Patricia, > > Thanks for your kind words. There's been a big team working on this helping > with testing, feedback comments etc. WE are also very appreciative of the > patience and understanding from our community in the lead up preparing for > this move. > > Also BIG thanks to the Free/ Open Source Software model -- none of this > would have been possible without the gifting culture and sharing of so many > coders dedicated to making the world a better place. WE all benefit from > their work. > > 2010 is going to be an amazing year for OER! > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > 2010/1/27 Patricia Schlicht <[email protected]> > > This is wonderful news for our Wiki Family! Congratualations for this >> accomplishment to the both of you!! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Patricia >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Wayne Mackintosh >> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:51 PM >> *To:* WikiEducator; >> [email protected]; >> [email protected]; [email protected] >> *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Going live with WYSIWYG editing -- Testing and >> Scheduled outage >> >> >> >> *IMPORTANT MESSAGE & GOOD NEWS FOR ALL WIKIEDUCATOR USERS* >> >> We're pleased to announce our long awaited migration to Rich Text Editing >> as well as important software updates for the WikiEducator website . This is >> a great way to start the new year! >> >> In this message: >> >> 1. Help with final testing of our Rich Text / WYSIWYG Editor >> implementation and software updates >> 2. Scheduled read-only outage of WikiEducator site starting: *Saturday >> 6 February 20:00 UTC* (Sunday 7 February 09:00 NZDT) or confirm the >> start time for your region here: >> >> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=7&month=2&year=2010&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=22 >> >> *1. We need your help with final testing of the Rich text editor* *and >> software upgrades* *before going live* >> >> The WikiEducator technical team has been testing the Rich Text Editor and >> a number of important software updates. We are very happy with the >> performance and this will add considerable value to our project. To the best >> of our knowledge everything is working as it should. However, we would >> appreciate a little help from our advanced users for final testing and >> identification of any problems we may have overlooked. >> >> 1. Please visit your favourite and/or more complicated pages on the >> test wiki site (http://we4.wikieducator.net/Main_Page ). >> 2. Login with your existing Username, >> 3. Click on the "Rich Editor" link to activate the WYSIWYG editor >> 4. Test the functionality of the editor using your favourite pages >> (note that this is a test site and your edits will NOT be preserved. Real >> work must be done on the live WikiEducator site) >> 5. Please let us know if any if there are any user created templates >> which are not working, missing images etc. >> 6. Report any problems you experience with the editor on this list by >> Wednesday 3 February 2010. >> >> With any migration of this size, we anticipate that there may be a few >> teething problems. WE will address in good time. We will try to fix any >> problems before the go live date, but we may need to schedule some fixes >> according to priority after the go-live date. However, we feel that the >> advantages of Rich Text Editing outweigh any teething problems we may >> experience. >> >> Known issue: 1) Templates for print-specific behaviours will not work with >> the wiki-to-pdf feature at this time because of changes Pedia Press have >> implemented in the wiki syntax used for this feature. We need to update >> these templates within the first weeks of the new installation. Any help >> from advanced users for these updates is well received :-) >> >> *Scheduled read-only access of WikiEducator site >> * >> We have scheduled a 5 - 6 hour period on <insert date and time, plus fixed >> world time zone link> when WikiEducators will not be able to edit on the >> WikiEducator site. (Users will still have read-only access during this >> outage.) >> >> We have planned this outage to coincide with the weekend for most users >> around the world. In the event of any unforeseen problems the outage may be >> longer. However, we are aiming to complete the migration within the >> scheduled time frame. >> >> Users with a more technical background and/or interest may want to: >> >> - join the #wikieducator channel on irc.freenode.net (or use "Web >> chat" link in sidebar of the English WikiEducator) >> - follow the !wikieducator group on identi.ca >> - watch http://tech.wikieducator.net/ >> >> This is an important Milestone in the evolution of our WE family. WE thank >> you for your support and understanding with this migration. >> >> Happy editing! >> >> Wayne and Jim >> OER Foundation. >> >> -- >> Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >> Director, >> International Centre for Open Education, >> Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >> Board of Directors, OER Foundation. >> Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org >> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 >> User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg >> Skype: WGMNZ1 >> Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg >> >> -- >> 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] >> >> -- >> 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] >> > > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en > . > -- डॉक्टर सावित्री सिंह प्रधानाचार्य आचार्य नरेन्द्र देव कॉलेज ( दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय ) गोविन्दपुरी, कालकाजी नयी दिल्ली 110019 Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 9786 2584 3496 http://eduframe.net/andc http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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