[FM Discuss] [p2pu-community] try.github.com and distributed learning

[mick fuzz]

I'm ccing the FM discuss list on this as I don't know specific details of
how inputting and creating epubs work in Book Type.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler
<jessy at jessykate.com>wrote:

> hey mick,
>
>
>> So I guess one request for an api (although I'm not sure that this is
>> really an api thing technically) - is to be able to import epub format to
>> create a course, and to make courses available in epub format too.
>>
>
> i LOVE this idea. i've actually been thinking about it too. because if
> that was possible, people could use p2pu as the main location of the
> content, and then export "releases" of that course at certain times to
> other places where perhaps a book format is more appropriate. it could
> always link back to p2pu as the canonical reference/
>

Yes that's probably the best way of explaining it.


>
>
>>
>> There are probably other contenders too - I know wordpress uses a XML (
>> WXR) format- and that drupal can import that via the feeds module. That
>> would make importing a course into a blog or website super easy with
>> existing tools.
>>
>
> yes, it would be cool to support a few formats too!
>
>
>>
>> So I guess I'm just wondering if you guys have thought about this kind of
>> content portability and what the thoughts were.
>>
>
> i think it's been discussed informally and thought of, and would build
> nicely off of the read-only api that's already been developed (not quite
> released yet). but we don't have a ton of extra developer bandwidth given
> the competing priorities. if there was general interest in this, is it
> something that you or people in your community might be interested in
> implementing and contributing to lernanta?
>
> jessy
>
>

Maybe some of the work has already been done as Book Type and Lernata are
based on Python and *Django*.  However, beyond that I'm going to have to
ask a "grown up" on the FM list to help me on the specifics.
Maybe Adam or Aco can chip in?

I think it may be an interesting area to explore as I think that this may
be an area that the FM and P2PU communities may have in common. It is a way
of involving other communities on the core project while allowing them to
showcase the work within their own URLs. And it really fits in the FM
philosophy of encouraging re-use of materials.

As an example the CiviCRM manual is in two places.
http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/ &
http://book.civicrm.org/user/

nice one
mick
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