WikiWYSIWYG
Who Are You?
Jordan McManus
Can you lead this course in September 2010 or is this a general concept?
This is not a course per se. Anyone is invited to have a look-see and hack away at it.
ToDO - link to The Course Of All Courses on P2PU
What's The Major Project?
At the moment, WikiWYSIWYG looks like one big soup and I don't really know what it's going to taste like. It's an Open soup, and your feedback is what's going to make this taste good.
In order to understand this, several things must be considered at the same time.
1. There is probably not enough space on the server side to accommodate all user modifications to all projects that will be hosted in the WikiWYSIWYG.
2. We can publish an Open platform that could be run inside a virtual machine on every computer (there is a lot of open source development on VMs).
3. This limits the entry point to installing a virtual machine (which we will explain). Or even better we can probably use an existing linux distribution (the virtual machine is only to accommodate everyone without forcing them on a particular platform).
4. Anytime a project reaches a milestone, we can publish the VM which will let any user: tinker with it on his own machine using his ever increasing knowledge without fear of breaking anything (in fact, breaking is encouraged)
5. VM's can be downloaded via Metalinks (BitTorrent)
6. Lazy downloading. This will probably become huge fast. So we need a mechanism to let users only download what they want/need to play with.
7. There's going to have to be a CVS type module attached also (which will be explained)
8. Batteries included (new form of releasing that I see in Python projects)
What you should know
You reached this place, you know enough.
What you can expect to learn
What you want to learn.
What you might learn if you work hard
What the future has in store for us.
Things we won't cover
The goal is to cover every possible way a new user can learn Open Web Concepts.
What will I build?
WikiWYSIWYG is about building, not about what to build.
Are you basing your course on existing courseware?
Yes, but still need to do more research to find everything.
- Title and Link (WaSP Interact Course? MIT OCW)
- Why: Why have you chosen this courseware?
- Copyright - is this course freely available? Licensed under Creative Commons?
Hey! I need help!
I need help. I honestly don't know what I'm doing.
Please be advised that I "judge" help based on ego (or lack of it). The more ego I smell in your help, the less chance it has of getting in here.