[education-wg] Listserv Organizatoin

[James Salsman]

I strongly agree that we should use a wiki!
http://microformats.org/wiki/wiki-is-better

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg
<greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On my phone, so can't give a ton of detailed feedback, but a couple of
> points.
>
> 1. I'm the editor of opensource.com/education, which I am more than happy to
> use as a platform for our working group.
>
> 2. I like the structure as proposed.  Mike, do you have wiki access at
> osfa.org enabled?  This is probably stuff that should turn into a set of
> pages under our working group.
>
> --g
>
> On Apr 1, 2010 3:25 PM, "Mike" <mhuffman at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hello. This is Mike Huffman. In order to provide better organization for
> this list I would like to make some recommendations.
>
> I am going to suggest some organization for the list in order to enhance
> output. I think this makes sense based on what we need to accomplish. I'm
> going to briefly describe the workgroups in the following message and I hope
> that it generates comments from people in the group. Besides adding some
> organization the list I am also hopeful this will promote flexibility and
> will provide us an avenue for outputs that make sense for the overall goal.
>
> Obviously the first goal is to finalize the descriptions of each of these
> following working groups. The descriptions I've included here are very
> sketchy. Within the first week we should work on finalizing these
> descriptions so that each workgroup has a specific goal in a specific work
> product. Hopefully this will kick off some thought and feedback from each of
> you. They're a total of four working groups and they are outlined below:
>
> Publications
>
> I would like to suggest a working group within the list to work on
> publications that may be helpful in promoting and using open source
> software. These publications may be ones, for example, that Greg suggested
> regarding money sources for open source projects, and may also include basic
> strategies that schools can use in implementing open source efforts.
> Hopefully this subgroup will be skilled at writing and be willing to allow
> everyone to respond and critique their efforts. We can decide later if
> attribution is allowed, but in any case the copyright needs to be open.
>
> Technical Roadmap
>
> Another working group of the list be responsible for reviewing technical
> roadmap issues. This would include interoperability issues, data issues for
> schools,And other issues such as data reporting for determining success.
> This workgroup will also be responsible for responding to technical reviews
> and endorsements of efforts as they are requested.
>
> Strategies
>
> The driving working group will be the strategies workgroup. This group will
> be responsible for identifying strategies that can work with open source
> software as well as prioritizing how this gets put together. Most of the
> strategy discussions will be public on the listserv and everyone's input
> will be required. However a smaller group will refine the focus and
> determine which strategies need to be addressed first.
>
> The strategies group will include discussions regarding open textbooks and
> open content. In addition to identifying a listing open content to make
> available to the public this group will also identify areas in which open
> content is needed and help in identifying individuals who can help provide
> that content.
>
> Student Involvement
>
> A final group will be will include students and active K-12 representatives.
> It is critical that we bring interested youth into this forum. Teachers who
> are currently active in K-12 will also be welcomed. This group will not only
> serve as a sounding board for all of the other workgroups, it will provide a
> real-world link that will allow us to approach the task before us in a
> realistic manner.
>
> Membership in the workgroups
>
> I think that it's realistic that people may serve in more than one workgroup
> if they so desire. It is essential however that we identify necessary
> outputs in each of the workgroups. In the beginning phase I will be happy to
> coordinate workgroup membership and active involvement. Workgroup's will
> select leaders who will be responsible for being the contact point and
> reports will be sent out to individual groups as they are completed. When a
> report is ready for general posting it will be reviewed by all list members
> and then posted on the website.
>
> Any thoughts? Does this seem like a reasonable approach to help us to make
> the progress needed? Logistically is it possible for this to work? Do you
> have suggestions for improvement?
>
> --
> Mike Huffman mhuffman at comcast.net
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