Hi Wikiversity & eros, I was pleased when i saw your mail in my mail box and felt happy that we are not alone in the web-world, who are trying for this motive. We are the administrators of the site LexisBirds.com and i am vamsi from india. We have already launched a site but it is still under construction and not completely developed yet. Let me explain the structure and motive of our site.
LexisBirds is basically an open-source "expressive" social networking site for enthusiastic learners. We have launched this site on a motive to create a platform for the students and learners to share their knowledge by posting the articles and materials they have and to discuss over any of the topics. It is a platform where each person has his/her own profile page in it, so that student interaction becomes more personal. We are even planning to have guest profiles for professors from universities so that he can share any academic topic online. You can check our site at this url www.lexisbirds.com platform used: Joomla Scripting Languages: PHP backend: mySQL features: 1. Sharing of videos and audios. 2. Article and material publishing( academic,non-academic) 3. Online tutorials from professors in discussion forum. 4. Developers forum where developers from all parts of the world can mutually cooperate and contribute for the development of the site. 5. Expressive social networking for inter-communication.( for knowledge together with recreation :p ) The problem we are facing is the lack of PHP experts in our team since we are only two people from a corner of india :). So any help from the infinitium and Wiliversity will be useful in serving our motive. Plz do reply us at [email protected] or [email protected] 2011/6/18 Phillipe, Eros <[email protected]> > just to give more information..let me share the project: > > I'm from Brazil and we are starting a project to share knowledge between > people and create an open source, free and nonprofit e-learning social > network. So, we are all volunteers. > > The whole concept of the project is that knowledge should be an universal > right, and there's no reason why a boy who lives in a slam, in rio, for > example, not to have access to the same knowledge as a boy who is at MIT, > for example. > > Ok,.. right now, there's me more a group of people working as volunteers > on this platform. basically, the system today is being built on PHP with > my SQL and we have tried to implement mediawiki as a way to allow people > to interact with each other.. the main problems are.. content are split > mainly in 3 groups on the internet > > 1) academics (harvard, mit, yale, cambridge, khan academy courses online > etc) > 2) users (youtube videos with lectures, people trying to teach something, > tutorials) > 3) articles - published and non published > > so we need > 1) to create ways for people to feed a database with their own inputs on > these 3 groups > 2) to organize and categorize this information in a automatic way (a > crawler, tags, some index system) > 3) to enable "social translation" into each video - and this is very > important.. > 4) to enable users to share their own material > 5) to enable users to connect with each other and solve doubts in common > (and create a trend topics on that), create users communities to discuss > academics topics and so on.. > > there are more features, but basically that's what we have in mind - and > we're looking for people to help on the project. If it works, we can help a > lot of people who don't have access to formal education and don't > necessarily speak English. > > We've got already some good partnerships with some organizations, and an > agreement with Stanford for them to use our translations on Youtube and > iTunes U if we be able to do it.. > > Well, that's it. I'm not Bono, but I hope it works my propaganda. > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 06:28, Phillipe, Eros <[email protected]>wrote: > >> yeah, we have an alpha version online, but with no functionalities.. (and >> without the user interface to allow content sharing) >> >> you can check it out at infinitunm.com (check the about, the FAQ..) >> >> it's a great project, but we are looking for volunteers to help on the >> platform.. >> >> I'm from Brazil, and the whole concept of the project is that there's no >> reason why a boy who lives in a slam, for example, to have no access to the >> same content as a boy who studies at MIT. And we want to provide a platform >> and means to allow that to happen through an open source and non profit >> platform. >> >> >> >> >> 2011/6/18 Juan de Vojníkov <[email protected]> >> >>> No website guy? >>> >>> Juandev >>> >>> 2011/6/18 Phillipe, Eros <[email protected]> >>> >>>> Guys, >>>> >>>> we are creating an open source, nonprofit, e-learning social network and >>>> looking for people to help. >>>> >>>> Any interested send an email to [email protected] or to me >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> regards >>>> eros phillipe >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikiversity-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikiversity-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiversity-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l > > -- ♫♫ VÂm&!♫♫ Kr!$HnÂ.
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