- From: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:08:56 +0000
- To: "Anna Brandt" <annab@opera.com>
- Cc: public-webed@w3.org
Thanks Anna - you are awesome! Chris Mills Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software Co-chair, web education community group, W3C * Try Opera: http://www.opera.com * Learn about the latest open standards technologies and techniques: http://dev.opera.com * Contribute to web education: http://www.w3.org/community/webed/ On 27 Jan 2012, at 11:38, Anna Brandt wrote: > Thanks for that little kick in the behind, Chris :). This email has been > sitting in my outbox for far longer than it should have! > > I've been thinking about how to best move forward with the outreach work. > The overall aim of the outreach project is to contact educators, companies > and trainers and getting them to adopt our learning material and > curricula. There are several ways in which you can get involved: > > - Contact schools, educators, companies or trainers in your local area to > get them to adopt our learning material and curricula > - Organize events on campus to spread the word about web standards and the > resources that we offer > - Help us create outreach materials (handouts, presentations, email > templates, etc.) to explain the WebED project and its benefits > > It seems that there are quite a few of you interested in getting involved. > It would be great to get an idea of who you are and how many of you are > out there. So if you are curious about outreach and want to figure out if > and how you can contribute, why not just drop me a quick email? We'll take > it from there :) > > Have a great day, everybody, > Anna > > On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:51:41 +0100, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com> wrote: > >> Wow, I am quite surprised by the deafening silence after this mail - only one person replied. >> >> I think I will take the silence as an agreement that I need to micro manage this a bit more, and start handing out more specific tasks to people. >> >> I will start contacting you individually and asking you how much time you currently have, and how much you would be prepared to do. in the near future. Again, I appreciate that most people here are doing this in their own time, so I will be gentle with you ;-) >> >> Best regards, and please get in touch if you have any questions or worries. >> >> thanks, >> >> Chris >> >> On 13 Jan 2012, at 14:21, Chris Mills wrote: >> >>> Hello all! >>> >>> I hope the new year is treating you well. >>> >>> Today I wanted to discuss something important with you - moving forward with this whole project, and the best way to do so. >>> >>> I think it is becoming clear that the way I have tried to run this so far has not been very successful - people are finding it hard to engage and contribute. Some people have told me this explicitly. So, how best to proceed? >>> >>> Broadly what we want out of this is: >>> >>> 1. Useful discussions pertaining to web education >>> 2. Sharing and development of ideas/methodologies that will be useful to educators and students >>> 3. Creation and sharing of learning resources, including tutorials, references and curricula. >>> 4. Outreach to as many relevant educators and students as possible, so they can all benefit >>> 5. [Add your own, if you think I've missed anything] >>> >>> At the moment the tools we have available are mailing lists and a Wiki, pretty much, plus the usual communication tools we use every day. What I would most like to do in the short term is: >>> >>> 1. Get people writing/updating/editing/proof reading learning material and curricula >>> 2. Get people working on outreach initiatives to spread the world about this material >>> 3. Get the non-native-English communities to start working on translations and outreach to their particular communities. >>> >>> What do people need to be able to do this more successfully? Do we need different tools? Do I need to start micromanaging a bit more, and handing out more specific tasks and deadlines to people, eg "proof read article x in the next couple of weeks"? >>> >>> Let me know what you think everyone. >>> >>> thanks! ;-) >>> >>> Chris Mills >>> Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software >>> Co-chair, web education community group, W3C >>> >>> * Try Opera: http://www.opera.com >>> * Learn about the latest open standards technologies and techniques: http://dev.opera.com >>> * Contribute to web education: http://www.w3.org/community/webed/ >>> >> > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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