FIlip:
Very interested and would like to help.
Will see you in the IRC channel.
Best regards,
Javier Romero
El 25/07/13 04:41, FIlip Kłębczyk escribió:
Hello,
As a person with academic background, who in the "very old" times
(around 2007/2008) taught students about programming for Maemo 4
platforms with help of some imported N810's from Germany (yes, those
weren't available in Poland at all) I thought that nowadays there are
probably people connected with universities (lecturers, PhD students
etc.) who would want to do the same, but with Mer/Nemo or solutions
based on them like Sailfish and Jolla based phones. I also remember
that preparing such lectures and scenarios of laboratories required
quite some effort and digging through a lot of stuff on maemo.org,
which was on one side good, but on the other side sometimes people
from academia just don't have time for that in constant rush with
other stuff.
To address that problem I thought about creating open educational
project whose aim would be preparing ready to use materials (like
slide presentations, some scenarios for laboratories, code examples or
tasks etc.) to teach about Mer/Nemo, Sailfish and others. In my
opinion the stuff on Mer/Nemo wiki is really, really great, but
probably not for average student, especially if he/she didn't have any
experience with such kind of projects. Moreover big companies who are
developing other platforms have usually some kind of academic programs
providing this kind of materials on portals, even with some
gamification elements to make learning more efficient and enjoyable. I
don't even mention about those companies providing devices and other
hardware stuff for laboratories usage. As a result it's much easier to
make mobile programming courses on universities about platforms from
big players like Google, Apple, Microsoft or Blackberry. I guess that
determined people like me that want to teach about interesting
alternatives such as Sailfish are in a small minority and it can be a
real challenge to push this kind of topics into course program,
especially with no arguments like ready to use materials, when
convincing colleagues also involved in teaching process at such courses.
In my opinion this is really a big issue that must be addressed sooner
or later and benefits are quite obvious - the more students will know
about Mer/Nemo the bigger chance that some of them might get involved
in active way like writing apps or contributing to open source
platforms such as Mer. Yes, in my opinion more people are needed in
the community, because for now it mainly consists of people previously
involved in Maemo or Meego (probably with N950 in their pockets) and
there is lack of fresh air (when comparing with what Canonical is for
example doing - attracting completely new people to their platform).
I've set up a repo where I will try to prepare such materials (which I
need to prepare anyway for the Fall semester, because I want to
include things connected with Mer/Nemo/Sailfish into two courses at
least). I'm looking forward to any help, contributions and ideas from
people who are interested in this topic - that is not limited to
lecturers, but also students and everyone who finds this matter
interesting or important. By the way I've given the project a name
Dolphinaric - yeah, dolphins are those clever and intelligent sea
animals and the name was not used :)
So the address to repo (not much yet there):
https://github.com/Dolphinaric/dolphinaric_courses
For people seeking a place for more direct way to discuss, there is
also #dolphinaric IRC channel on Freenode. I would also like to set up
a mailing list, to not make a mess here ;) So I'm looking for
suggestions where to set up that (I tried to do that on Freelists.org,
but did not receive any response from them yet).
Best regards,
Filip
PS. I've posted this message on both mer-general and
devel@lists.sailfishos.org mailing list, but I STRONGLY SUGGEST to
discuss it on mer-general mailing list only to not cause chaos and
cross postings (I hope soon dedicated mailing list will be set up).
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