[Oer-community] A reflection

[Wayne Mackintosh]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Zaid Alsagoff <zaid.alsagoff at gmail.com>wrote:


> *However, for the OER map to be self-sustaining it should be organic and
> self-updating, meaning it should support RSS feeds from all OER projects
> (where possible), and Having a Twitter hashtag to support the discussion
> would be great. ... For example Linkedin or Facebook Groups/Pages have
> polls that empower you to suggest new ideas, while being able to vote for
> the good ideas at the same time. Simple polls would also do (e.g.
> Polldaddy). *
>

One of the points of difference of the open movement is the freedom for
individuals to innovate. Take the lead and establish a hashtag for
microblogs on the topic, social media pages on the various sites for our
discussion. We could harvest and aggregate the RSS feeds.  We'll need to
check with Susan if they have set up RSS capability for the Mailman posts
so we can also pull in posts from this list. I say go for it!

I agree -- running polls are a great way to gauge "rough consensus". We use
this extensively in planning the OERu initiative and it works well. It's
the open source way - -rough consensus and running code!

Great ideas Zaid! Be bold and set up these vehicles for open interaction.

Wayne



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