Learning Group
We had a great meeting today to discuss the way forward for the Ubuntu Learning Project and we manage to reconcile a number of directions by making the generic and vague learning group into an umbrella social group for a number of different, but still heavily interacting, projects.
After the agreement to split up and autonomise the leadership of each project, we’d been working hard at changing all the wiki pages and launchpad pages to reflect this new organisation.
So what does this mean for course writing? Well course writing is now it’s own project, the “Ubuntu Learning Materials” project, which has a singular focus ont he construction on course material for teaching Ubuntu and related subjects. It’s not that concerned with how to publish the works, and will make do with published sets of pdf files and loose repositories. The development though will be very strong, with strict licenses for collaboration and a strong use of existing development tools to make sure writers are able to peer review, edit and writer without having their work lost in some custom media management site.
The other two projects under the umbrella is the Ubuntu Educators, who’s focus is on traditional education establishments and providing Ubuntu materials to them in a format they can consume (i.e. moodle). And the Ubuntu Learning/Classrooms project which is focused on taking materials and publishing and hosting classes for community consumption. Very much like what happens with developer/user weeks.
These separations should allow each project’s leadership to make good choices for the direction and goals of the project without having to be constantly tripping up over other considerations. The umbrella group though is still an important way to have all educational projects within Ubuntu talk to each other.
Thoughts?
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Will the material produced by CC-BY-SA or some other license?
CC-BY-SA, strictly.
After sitting in on some of the IRC meetings, I’m really happy to see this approach. IMO, this tactic will get the most output for the community with the least amount of friction. Good Luck!