[Open-education] Feedback from sessions on Duct Tape Uni & FLOSS manuals at hacktionlab

Fri Nov 28 02:21:15 UTC 2014

Is there anyone who can share there experience with  me about open
education and floss manual in Skype, please add me namen.meh
On Nov 20, 2014 3:29 AM, "Mick Clearerchannel" <mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org>
wrote:

> Hello Free Software lovers of learning out there,
>
> I wanted to do a super quick feedback on the couple of sessions that we
> did at the weekend  at the Hactionlab meet in Bradford on FLOSS Manuals
> and Duct Tape Uni.
> http://hacktionlab.org/hacktionlab/index.php/Winter_2014_Hacklab
>
> The whole thing was very intimate and I was able to get some good
> feedback and suggestions.
>
> I uploaded a technical report of the Duct Tape Uni project at the
> weekend here.
> http://blog.ducttapeuni.org/technical-report-implementation-duct-tape-uni/
>
> It's not very complicated more of a celebration of what can be done
> using the Django framework and javascript bits by a novice coder in a
> short space of time.
> It also has some info about using microdata in the form of LRMI
> (learning resource metadata) to make learning resources more discoverable.
>
> There is another report on the process which is inspired by book sprints
> which may be more interesting for non-techies -
> http://blog.ducttapeuni.org/duct-tape-uni-process/
> and a more formal report here -
>
> http://blog.ducttapeuni.org/report-co-design-process-duct-tape-university-project/
> The Duct Tape Uni project was supported by JISC - Thanks!
>
> As far as FLOSS manuals side was concerned...
> The main tech question I had was what is the best way to get summaries
> of resources from FLOSS Manuasl out to sites that want to link back to us.
>
> An example is the site created by the DTU code which is here -
> http://doitacademy.flossmanuals.net/ - site still in progress.
> For that Do It Academy site  - I would like to include metadata and
> links back to particular FLOSS Manuals that are relevant to this project.
>
> This would including the metadata that the FM community recently created
> here -  http://piratepad.net/DYUQT3iDX1 - (Thanks everyone for that again)
>
>  I can imagine this would be useful for the various communities -
> crypto party - libre graphics fans - open video sites (v4c.org) - free
> audio peeps (@80c ) - community media - etc etc
>
> In short, creating these kinds of showcase sites of FM manuals (together
> with other resources), as shop windows for trainers and communities who
> do stuff with Free Software has been cited as being vital for us to
> attract active editors to keep the manuals updated.
>
> Great, but the question I asked my fellow computer enthusiasts was -
> What is the best way to create these sites without having to copy and
> paste it a lot of metadata and keep them updated?
>
> The suggestion by Charlie from NI was to add in the relevant data
> somehow at the source in Booktype in the database. And then provide that
> data in various ways via an api providing json files containing the
> metadata.
> This ways could be as individual manuals, manuals grouped by category or
> maybe by tag.
> Json seems to be a favoured solution over creating XML feeds.
>
> The process of pulling these json files into pages which are and
> formatted in a pleasing fashion is not known to me but it seems a sane
> solution. Hey, everyone seems to be doing it.
>
> I was later thinking about this and wondering if there is a possibility
> to link this with an existing project which already works with LRMI
> metadata. The project is called Learning Registry - more info here.
> http://learningregistry.org/
>
> I'm going to give this some thought investigate a bit and come back with
> more ideas. In fact I would be very interested if others had thoughts on
> this too.
>
> I would love to know, what would be the pros and cons of using Learning
> Registry over creating your own simple api in this use case.
>
> It strikes me that this is a good goal to work towards in the medium
> term for FLOSS Manuals when current migrations and publishing issues are
> sorted. (I've been enjoying the recent updates on that btw which are
> here. http://team.flossmanuals.net/ )
>
> Ooof - sorry that was a dense email. I just wanted to make a record of
> the conversation.
>
> nice one
> Mick
>
>
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