[OSGeo-Edu] Moodle/Content Management System discussion

[maria.brovelli at diiar-topo.polimi.it]

Dear Venka and dear all
I agree absolutely with you. We need to find an easy tool in order to  
make people confortable in adding material and contributing.  
OpenOffice in that sense could be the best solution, as the most of us  
can manage it.

In my opinion your latter concern is also more important: we need to  
enlarge  our basis and share ideas (and not only technology) with a  
great part of the world that is now missing. I'll try to contact  
collegues in Africa, as next meeting is going to be there.

Cheers. maria

Citando Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>:

> Charlie Schweik wrote:
> ...
>>
>> I wasn't aware of DocBook Ned. But I agree -- developing an XML-based
>> structure is what we should do... but as you say, it needs to be
>> *simple* or people won't do it.
>
> Is't OpenOffice XML based? Does it not support
> Docbook? Open Office is simple enough for most
> of us, I think.
>
> http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/UserGuide.html
> http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/
>
> Off topic maybe, while it is wonderful to see how
> wiki, trac etc. etc. can allow collaborative content
> development. At the end of the day we must not forget that
> one fifth of the people on the planet still do not have
> access to IT. Off the ones who have access to IT maybe a
> very small portion have access to Internet services. When
> the OSGeo courses, books, modules are made some mechanism
> for making *hardcopy* text books, work books etc. need to
> be thought about.
>
> Regards
>
> Venka
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