[Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on Wikibooks

Wed Dec 17 10:33:57 UTC 2014

http://oerpub.org/tools/ ?

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Barker, Phil A <Phil.Barker at hw.ac.uk>
wrote:
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> I think the real problem is that there is no easy way to clone, fetch,
> pull between different OER platforms.
>
> Phil
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> *From:* open-education [open-education-bounces at lists.okfn.org] on behalf
> of Marieke Guy [marieke.guy at okfn.org]
> *Sent:* 17 December 2014 09:25
> *To:* open-education at lists.okfn.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on
> Wikibooks
>
>  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
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>
>
> On 16/12/2014 19:48, Mick Clearerchannel wrote:
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> On 16/12/14 18:18, Marieke Guy wrote:
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> 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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