Hi, Jim.
I was going to respond to your excellent, careful comment ... first, but this one seems to demand an answer. I'm still going through the thread. No ignorance perceived in your good questions and comments. However, I do counsel some patience at this point. I, along with a number of others, including you if you like, fully intend to take part in shepherding our ideas and efforts. I haven't gotten all the way through the responses, and we're waiting on Bill's response, but since you voiced some worry about what's going to happen I want to say that I, for one, don't intend to let the ball drop this time. Nor, I take, does Jeremy or Bryant or Tim or Justin or LM or Yishay or Bill or James or anyone else on the list. A number of people who previously showed that they are interested in a working on a project re. free and open re-sources together on schoolforge.net are still waiting to see where we're going to go.
In other words, I share your interest in ensuring that we actually produce something, but it's early in the discussion still. I see it as "blue sky" brainstorming time. I think that we'll have to feel out how fast to let evolve or force it to develop, but, above all, it must be good, no, excellent. Or else we'll all bail.
So, in the interest of coming up with something we all want to stand behind and push, blue sky and information is the theme right now.
At least that's how I see it.
David
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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:16:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Jütte <jimjutte@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [school-discuss] Apologies for my ignorance but....
To: "schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi David,Per the title... you've started a great thread and from Bryant, Jeremy and a number of other contributors came the thread on possibility of generating OA texts, but does anyone ever pick up the ball and take ownership of the projects? This is potentially an enormous undertaking with equally enormous benefits and impacts on students worldwide. More importantly, with the people I've seen here already, it has enough willing contributors to see the light of day.Is there any sort of structure that would allow me to see how this comes about other than... I can put a little piece here on DNA or a Basic German Grammar sort of thing? For example, Micah just put in a piece about using volunteers from a whole group, Tim talked about his expertise etc... and this is just amazing... but I don't yet see how this all comes together as a project or is that something that you or someone who has been here a little longer pulls together? In other words is what I'm seeing more in line with a brainstorming session, followed by a high level plan etc etc etc.Again... sorry for the questions, probably stemming from my project manager days a lifetime ago... I would just like to be able to contribute in a meaningful way where possible.Cheers
Jim, BSc, BA, BEd, MBA, MA
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