On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 04:57:37PM -0500, Justin W. Flory wrote:
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- Online university meets contributing to Fedora (kind of)
- Join process: Move from wiki to more modern + centralized "course"
- Improve process to jumpstart new contributors
- Four main questions to answer
- Opinions / thoughts very welcome *
- Longer email, but worth the read!
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Hello all,
This idea originates from a discussion Gabri (mailga) and I had in #fedora-join today.
Gabri pointed out the availability of a variety of different "online classroom" type of applications or websites. They're pretty commons nowadays, with things like Udemy or Coursera being used to let people take full-fledged courses in any subject they want (sometimes at a cost, sometimes not).
The article that started this discussion can be found here:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/02/seven-free-platforms-for-teaching.h...
The needs for something like this would be as follows:
- Create a series of "lessons" for newcomers to follow in order to be
"ready" to contribute to what interests them 2) Courses / lessons easy to update and keep current with the fast-paced speed of Fedora
Gabri also linked this article which may of use of finding a platform we like, should this be something we are interested in:
http://blog.capterra.com/top-8-freeopen-source-lmss/
However, to the point - now what? There's a few questions I think we need to answer?
- Is this something we think would be useful to pursue?
I definately think so.
- If so, what is the scope we want to pursue? Start small and see if
it works well, then try a wider adoption?
- Is this something we would have as a long-term goal for 2016 for
every subgroup to try to adopt (with the assistance of CommOps)?
Would be willing to participate in a meeting to discuss.
- Are there any downsides that stand out by trying to pursue an
online "contributor classroom" sort of style versus using the wiki?
I think these are the core questions we need to answer to move forward. This may be an interesting discussion topic for a meeting if there is support for the idea.
And Gabri, feel free to chime in and add anything in case I missed something. :)
Interested to hear your thoughts!
-- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@gmail.com
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