Jams/TextbookRevolutionJam
Textbook Revolution Wiki Jam
(re)creating textbookrevolution.org
Date: Saturday, May 17th
Time: 12:00 -- 4:00 EST
Place: OLPC 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
Contact: Joshua Gay
IRC: irc.freenode.net #textbookrevolution
Help us (re)create TextbookRevolution.org! We need your help relaunching the site, which is scheduled to go live on May 24th. Read about textbookrevolution.org [#About_TBR below].
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 focus of the new site is not only to be Wiki-based, but it is also focused on bringing together the various free textbook projects out there by sharing metadata, using distributed annotation/review tools, and well, just opening up conversations and making and active effort to share when we can! For those not in the Boston area, you can join us on IRC in #textbookrevolution on i--Jgay 22:56, 12 May 2008 (EDT)rc.freenode.net.
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