[Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on Wikibooks

Wed Dec 17 09:25:32 UTC 2014

Definitely Mick!!

So from Wikipedia: " In software engineering, a project fork happens 
when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and 
start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate 
piece of software. The term often implies not merely a development 
branch, but a split in the developer community, a form of schism."

Just to be clear that *there is no schism here*! But the Open Education 
Handbook was originally created as part of a project with project 
funding. That project has ended and there is no more money for me to 
push the handbook forward. However (hopefully) there may be a willing 
community who will want to reuse and build on the handbook.

So maybe it makes sense to put the handbook wherever the community is. 
Now there may be more than one community (ours, the OER community, the 
open source community, the Wikipedia community and so on...), so does 
this mean we should put it in different places? Or try to get the 
community to come to our one place?

These are questions I don't have the answer to (though I do have a 
personal opinion on) and I'd love to hear other people's thoughts.

Can the Wikibooks and the Booktype version run in parallel? Should we 
agree on a one definitive version that we push? Can we leave the 
situation to evolve naturally and see in which direction the community 
goes? What about language versions? How can this all be managed?

Thanks

Marieke

On 16/12/2014 19:48, Mick Clearerchannel wrote:
>
> On 16/12/14 18:18, Marieke Guy wrote:
>>
>>
>> For info we have recently updated the main handbook page 
>> <http://education.okfn.org/handbook/> to be more like a splash page 
>> with links to different versions and editions. For anyone interested 
>> in the discussions  related to 'forking' a handbook I recommend 
>> watching the community session video 
>> <http://education.okfn.org/see-the-open-education-handbook-fly/> from 
>> last week - the discussion starts about 30 minutes in.
>
>
> Perhaps we could have a conversation here about the merits / demerits 
> of forking the handbook as is.
>
> On first thoughts to me it seems a bit daft but I'm open to persuasion. :)
>
> nice one
> Mick
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