[svlug] ACCU on Wednesday 'Digital Textbook Design, Licensing, and Consequences' Ed Cherlin

[Walter Vannini]

When:      Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Topic:     Digital Textbook Design, Licensing, and Consequences
Speaker:   Ed Cherlin
Time:      6:30pm doors open
         7:00pm meeting begins
Where:     Symantec
         VCAFE building
         350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
         Mountain View, CA 94043
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/334rv5>
Directions: VCAFE is accessible from the semicircular courtyard between Symantec buildings <http://tinyurl.com/2dccgc>
Cost:      Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

Earth Treasury and partners are starting to create digital textbooks. In the past, most such efforts have either been PDFs or software of very limited utility.  How can we create more powerful learning materials on the base of software in Sugar on the OLPC XO and other Linux platforms?  What licenses should we use? What is the impact of Freely licensed learning materials?  Who is writing these digital textbooks?   (See:  http://earthtreasury.org/)

Edward Mokurai Cherlin has been a mathematician and computer scientist, a Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea, a Buddhist monk, a high-tech market analyst, a tech writer, a Free Software development manager, and a serial NGO founder.  His two most recent NGOs are the Open Voting Consortium (Founding Member), and Earth Treasury (Founder).  Earth Treasury has set itself the task of creating an informed network of networks including a billion children, along with their teachers, family, and friends, for economic growth, social development, and world domination of Free Software.

Further information can be found at http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/ and http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai

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