[p2pu-webcraft] CS Courses besides WebCraft

Tue May 17 16:33:44 UTC 2011

http://new.p2pu.org/en/groups/p2pu-help-desk/content/about-schools/

ALISON
new.p2pu.org/en/alison/ <http://p2pu.org/users/alison>

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Within this discussion I think it's important to be clear that a potential
> CS school, while having overlap would have to be organised separately from
> Webcraft.  As such this might be a good conversation to continue on the main
> mailing list :-)
>
> I'm happy to answer questions about this, but can't act as an organiser.
>
> School of Webcraft's goal is providing training for people wishing to
> develop web specific skills and pursue careers as web developers using open
> and standards based web technologies. I'm happy to work with the potential
> CS school organisers to identify subjects with an overlap and will continue
> to provide guidance and promotion to those courses which fall within School
> of Webcraft's charter.
>
> For those of you interested in pursuing a CS school idea some first steps
> could be:
>
>    - put out a call on the P2PU community list  and organise a call
>    - Identify a spokesperson and Following feedback from the P2PU
>    community - organise a separate mailing list following the Working Group
>    guidelines
>    - join the Schools list and read through the archives to find out more
>    about how to set up a school
>       -   http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-schools
>    - Identify the goals of the CS school - eg. would there also be a focus
>    on non-proprietary technology? (+1)
>    - A free/open focus is far more scalable and means that learners would
>       not have to pay license fees for software they're working with
>       - What would your draft charter include?
>       http://etherpad.mozilla.org:9000/webcraft-charter
>       - identify existing courses (not Webcraft) that would fall under the
>    Schools topic and contact their organisers to see if they can join a call.
>    - Identify some potential organisations to ask for guidance - depending
>    on your project goals they might include the free software foundation, and
>    the Free Technology Academy http://ftacademy.org/
>
> I look forward to reading more about this (on the community list or a
> P2PU-CSSchool  list :-) )
>
>
> P*
>
>
> 2011/5/16 Dany Javier Bautista Montaña <danyjavierb at gmail.com>
>
>>
>>
>> 2011/5/15 Nicholas Doiron <ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu>
>>
>>> Parag,
>>>
>>> As an engineering student and P2PU Webcraft course organizer, my thought
>>> is that you could have resources on diyomputerscience.com and use
>>> courses
>>> on P2PU to reach out to non-technical people and guide them through which
>>> resources to use, forming study groups, that sort of thing
>>>
>>> How separate are your CS course ideas from the principles of the School
>>> of
>>> Webcraft?  There are a lot of languages and programs which you could
>>> connect to web content.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nicholas
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 8:40 am, Parag Shah wrote:
>>> > Hi Pippa,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Creating a separate thread ...
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I will be happy to help with the computer science learning community
>>> > within P2PU. However, I guess I will have to balance the time I give to
>>> > P2PU and to
>>> > diycomputerscience.com
>>> >
>>> > A little background:
>>> > I have been thinking of an online community for CS from a long time. I
>>> > created a prototype a few years back, but it fell off, because I could
>>> not
>>> >  dedicate enough time to it, from my other activities. I again created
>>> > something a few months back, but could not give a whole lot of time to
>>> > it. Sometime back I decided to stop all my regular revenue generating
>>> > work, and work full time on diycomputerscience.com
>>> >
>>> > Because of this I will soon need to start generating some revenue from
>>> > it. Since all my content is free and open, I do not charge people for
>>> > access, however I do have some thoughts on some potential ways of
>>> > generating revenues... value added services, careers page, etc. But
>>> it's a
>>> > whole lot of experimenting and figuring out what works.
>>> >
>>> > Because of all this I am a bit caught up in trying to bootstrap
>>> > diycomputersciene. But I will be glad to help out in the broader CS
>>> > courses at P2PU wherever I can.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Thanks & Regards
>>> > Parag Shah
>>> > http://blog.adaptivesoftware.biz
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Pippa Buchanan
>>> > <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> (slightly off-topic)
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Parag, I know that you're interested in setting up your site to act as
>>> >> a potential socially beneficial business, but you could also consider
>>> >> working to setup a computer science learning community / school within
>>> >> the greater P2PU? I know that Wesley's also interested in doing this
>>> and
>>> >> there are a lot of relevant courses and groups already being created.
>>> >>
>>> >> P*
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
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>>
>> I think that Cs in p2pu is a very good step, because p2pu teaching cs
>> courses could promote the research and this would sound nice in all the
>> world. and i think that the people that choice the theorical road can found
>> in p2pu good oportunities. cool Parag and other goal pippa.
>>
>> the spanish Sow & p2pu teams are waiting info about this.
>>
>> --
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