Tony has posted about a potential get together to thrash out some issues around the Social:Learn project. To recap, it's an attempt by the OU to build an open system that helps facilitate social networking for learning. Along the way it may be a VLE killer too, but don't tell anyone.
Tony puts it like this:
"Work on the API has already begun - an external development team are scoping it out at the moment over in the US - and the design theme for the site we're gonna get someone else to build around those APIs are already being put together by an external design agency...
...but we all know that's not enough, right? Platforms and APIs only gain traction when people start to play with them, developers as well as users, which is why I'm floating this post...
So - we're looking to see if there are any developers out there who are working for educational institutions (formal or otherwise) or training organisations (public, private or voluntary sector) who'd like to meet up for pizza and and pint in a Barcamp/unconference like setting, and share a story or two about the itches that are bugging you in plugging institutional services together, and the third party systems you'd love to pull into your organisation, whether it's the VLE, your dreams of a PLE, the LMS or the WTF..."
So, if you're in the UK and fancy a get together, let us know. We'd also be interested in a north American get together sometime (perhaps with those demented edugluers...)
How about doing this at the Social Innovation Camp in April in London? http://www.sicamp.org/
Stuart and I plan to be there... and we hoped a few others might go...
Posted by: Laura | 04/03/2008 at 11:19 PM
Just so you know:
- we are feverishly trying to pull something together, invites and details to come out soon hopefully
- in case anyone wonders, we *like* being called "demented edugluers," indeed that may make an even better band name than the Eduglu Gospel Singers.
Posted by: Scott Leslie | 07/03/2008 at 03:49 AM
Hi Scott - that's fantastic, I saw you were having a meeting with Brian and was going to ask if it came up. Perhaps for the meet-up the band should be a one off 'Ed Glu and the demented social learners'
Posted by: Martin | 07/03/2008 at 08:51 AM
There's also interest on the continent :-)
Posted by: Steven Verjans | 09/03/2008 at 09:01 AM
Steven - we'd love to have the OUNL as part of the discussion. I'll let you know if we get any dates sorted.
Posted by: Martin | 11/03/2008 at 11:17 AM