[FM Discuss] Winter Camp Agenda

[Edward Cherlin]

OK, draft presentation attached. I'll have to write out my script. It
took just under 10 minutes on the first try.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>>
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>> Email : adam at flossmanuals.net
>>
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Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name
And Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination.
http://earthtreasury.net/ (Ed Cherlin)
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