[Educational] Re: Plone, OpenCourseWare, and eduCommons

On 24.09.2005, at 12:52, Alexander Limi wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:27:57 +0200, John Dehlin  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> I cannot adequately express how thoroughly I enjoyed meeting you  
>> all at the
>> Plone conference this week in Vienna. As I mentioned to some of  
>> you, after 7 years at Microsoft
>>
>
> We can keep a secret. ;)
>
>
>> Well, if I ever had any doubts, after this week, they are now  
>> vapor. What a
>> beautiful and vibrant community you have developed. I truly hope  
>> this is not
>> my last Plone conference. You have all been so incredibly  
>> gracious....and
>> you folks at Blue Dynamics <http://www.bluedynamics.com> are  
>> amazing. Thank
>> you for hosting such a delightful event.
>>
>
> We're very happy that you had a good time!
>
>
>> Many of you have asked for the source code/installation  
>> instructions for
>> eduCommons--the Plone-based "OpenCourseWare Management System". My
>> colleagues back in the U.S. (at Utah State University) have been  
>> pulling
>> all-nighters to get this all ready for you. You can find  
>> everything you need
>> to know now on SourceForge ( http://educommons.sourceforge.net ).  
>> We will
>> soon be submitting an entry into the Plone Products directory as  
>> well.
>>
>
> Fantastic!
>
>
>>    - And just so you know that you (and your associates) will be  
>> in good
>>    company, here's a partial list of some of the current  
>> OpenCourseWare
>>    participants:
>>
>
> <snip />
>
> That's quite a list.
>
>
>>    - If any of you are interested in pulling together a Plone-based
>>    community around educational opportunities, please let me know.  
>> I've spoken
>>    to many of you about this, and I know that the good folks at  
>> eduPlone are
>>    already well ahead on this front...but if I can be of any  
>> assistance, I'd
>>    love to jump in.
>>
>
> Well, a good first step would be to re-instate the project-neutral  
> mailing list for educational users. It was "hijacked"[1] earlier,  
> and has been very dormant lately.

it was me that "hijacked" the list... but it turned out that our  
plans with eduplone didn't work - or better said - went in another  
direction.
during the last year most of the ArchGenXML work that jens and phil  
did was payed out of a bigger eduplone project. but i badly failed in  
establishing an educational open source community.

last week - at our general assembly meeting in vienna - i retired as  
ceo of eduplone and we decided to go back to the "normal" open source  
community model. jens klein - archetypes release manager - will drive  
eduplone in future.
i'm still active member and very interested in the educational  
market, but i won't be leading these activities.

good luck!

jodok

>
> I have set up a new list at:
>
>   [email protected]
>
> To sign up for this list, go to
>
>   http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/educational
>
> I hope this list will re-invigorate the educational/academic Plone  
> community, which has been lacking a proper forum to coordinate and  
> discuss such activities.
>
> A couple of notes:
>
> a) I chose the name "Educational" for the list, but I'm not sure if  
> that's the best name - I'm not a native speaker. If it's a bad name  
> in any way, please notify me immediately, and we'll do something  
> about it. It's very hard to change later, so let's get it changed  
> now if it is needed at all.
>
> b) I put everyone in the original mail on BCC here on purpose, so  
> this mail doesn't turn into a mailing list in itself. ;) Please use  
> the mailing list for future posts about this.
>
> c) I'll add the list to Gmane and the plone.org list pages (plus a  
> plone.org general news announcement) if it turns out to be a forum  
> people want to use. So please sign up and start using it if you are  
> interested!
>
> I'm happy to see some action in this area, it has always bothered  
> me that the universities and colleges out there are using  
> proprietary, buggy and sub-optimal solutions to solve their needs  
> in this area. It's time for a revolution!
>
>
>
> [1] No offense meant, there was a rename earlier that resulted it  
> being called "eduplone", which is more project centric list name  
> that we originally wanted. We are of course not going to remove  
> that list, but since it has been very silent the past months, and  
> we have more players now, I propose that we use the new list for  
> general discussion.
>
> -- 
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>
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>
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