[FM Discuss] Winter Camp Agenda

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:18 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> It sounds interesting Ed but perhaps a little broad.
>
> We need to focus on FM specifics during the event, Where do you think
> this project most intersects with the work of FM?

The point is to solicit FM contracts from Ministries of Education,
UNESCO, and the like, where we would go beyond the PDF and the printed
book and invent the new media required, and invite the entire Open
Source world to join in. Creative Commons is already on board, and I
talked to Larry Lessig about a civics textbook, using Open Voting
Consortium software among other things. He is interested. The rest of
the first round of partners is listed at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Creating_textbooks.

What angles can we work with the other Wintercamp participants?

> If we can get a succinct and pointed 10 minute presentation from you on
> that, then it would be great to have the opportunity to see what you are
> doing in this area.

Definitely. I'll extract a five or six slide presentation from my
SCaLE 7x talk in just a bit and run through it with a timer.

> adam
>
>
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 22:03 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:24 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>> > great idea
>> >
>> >
>> > anyone else wish to present anything related to FM?
>>
>> I have made some progress on the Earth Treasury digital textbook
>> project, which will integrate Sugar software into materials for every
>> subject a every age. Issues include funding (by governments, NGOs, aid
>> agencies); translation (by user communities in many cases); curriculum
>> integration; and organizing an educational research program to make
>> the most of this opportunity.
>>
>> This program is of the essence of Free Software and Free Media, and of
>> the search for sustainability and human dignity. The plan is to get up
>> to a billion children talking to one another, and learning how to
>> cooperate to solve global problems. I cannot think of a bigger issue
>> confronting us. It covers poverty, oppression, threats to the planet,
>> the global economy, and war, or to put it another way, Life, the
>> Universe, and Everything.
>>
>> How does that sound?
>>
>> > adam
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:43 -0500, Andy Oram wrote:
>> >> I would love to have just a little time to show people at Winter Camp my ideas for tools and practices that make online interactions more effective. I don't want to be self-indulgent, but it was this work that drew Adam's attention to me in the first place. I could spend five minutes showing some slides:
>> >>
>> >> ODF format:
>> >> http://www.praxagora.com/project_education/presentation/growing_participation.odp
>> >>
>> >> PDF format:
>> >> http://www.praxagora.com/project_education/presentation/growing_participation.pdf
>> >>
>> >> I designed this presentation to be self-explanatory, but I can also say a bit about their importance. I have longer presentations too, but I don't want to take up a lot of time.
>> >>
>> >> Andy
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