Jams/TextbookRevolutionJam
Textbook Revolution Wiki Jam
Date: Saturday, May 17th
Time: 12:00 -- 4:00 EST
Place: OLPC 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
Contact: Joshua Gay
Not in the area?: Join us on IRC at irc.freenode.net in #textbookrevolution
If you can't make it, but still want to help, just drop me an email :-)
Help us (re)create TextbookRevolution.org! We need your help relaunching the site, which is scheduled to go live on May 24th.
We'd love to see the following folks join us for the Jam:
- People who love knowledge enough to do data entry (we will provide coffee, both at the Jam and virtually in IRC)
- Savvy web designers willing to help make our templates and pages look great!
- Systems Administrators to make sure our server continues to hum speedily along!
- Comedians and jokers to help keep things lively!
- Masters of Ontology to help us make sure our semantic metadata is well formed!
- IRC friends to help keep things going so we can make a worldwide effort!
The new site will be a community driven, Wiki-based web site that is simple to use. Visitors can upload reviews or new books through simple forms, or they can add help us redesign the entire site by editing the Wiki directly. Helping is as easy as tagging a book with an appropriate category, or as complicated as helping us getting two wiki sites to share their metadata.
However, the relaunch of textboookrevolution.org extends beyond just the web site. We are working hard to being working with other free textbook projects and we are beginning to help spread our work onto college campuses so that we can begin working more directly with students, professors, and authors. If you can't join us in person on Saturday, we urge you to can join us on IRC in #textbookrevolution on irc.freenode.net or contact us at anytime!
About TBR
Textbook Revolution is the web’s source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry’s constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value.
TBR’s mission is to drive the adoption of free textbooks by teachers and professors. We want to get these books into classrooms. Our approach is to bring all of the free textbooks we can find together in one place, review them, and let the best rise to the top and find their way into the hands of students in classrooms around the world.
Found out more at textbookrevolution.org