Thanks Randy, I've set myself the task of trying to encourage first the network guys - terena people are mainly the techs from each nren in europe - and the guys from my alma mater - http://sae.edu/en-gb/news_overview/726/News - mainly AV guys and web designers in dozens of countries, to start talking. These are primarily technical guys = terena for the networks and SAE for the front end to the networks. I'm trying to figure out how content producers, like the WE community, can be introduced into this equation.
Content is the most important thing but most content producers won't understand how functionality can be built into 'converging smart networks', and networks are useless without good content. The main change is having National REN's reconfigured to support global (disciplinary centric) content 'prosumers' instead of national institutions. Believe me WE (and the WMF) is at the top of my mind when it comes to talking to NREN techs about "the producer/customer". Give me a little time to get my feet under the table in Europe. I'll just leave you with these 2 links to terena's conference last year and the agenda for this year, to give yu an overview of their community's perspectives. http://tnc2009.terena.org/ http://tnc2010.terena.org/schedule/ I'll just mention that it's getting close to running a series of workshops between different global spots at the same time (and streaming, recording archiving video in the one place). So if you'd like to factor that approach into your thinking, when those in the .eu domain get around to working through how they will be linking up with the Americas and Asia we can start talking about how the project will be funded. All the best, simon > Hi Simon, > > Regarding your meetings with Terena, please put in a plug for upcoming > WikiResearcher.org > > http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Projects#WikiResearcher > -- 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]
