Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: [centres] Free Libre Open Source Software

[Adam Moran]

Hi Tom,

Tom Coady [fsfe-uk] wrote:

> > > I was hoping I could find something useful on the helpisathand site, 
> > > but after looking for several minutes I could not find anything that 
> > > seemed to fit this. 
> >
> > Any thing in particular you were trying to find ?
>
> Yes. What help are you providing now ...

The content of this site is determined in main by the UK Online centres 
themselves. The Community Programmes team of Becta [1] run this job; as 
I understand things, what ever information the centres require goes on 
the site. (This site does not provide learning materials though. The C-M 
team have recently launched http://www.aclearn.net/ which is hoped to 
remedy this in part).

"As a team the Community Programmes, thinks that the web is a publishing 
medium and that it enables the development of 'androgogy', that is 
self-directed learning. We feel that we should be involved in the 
development of tools that people can deploy for their own purposes." [2]

The team encourage centres to publish web content, and offers pragmatic 
help and support.

The team support the [centres] email list and may be able to construct 
something useful out of our discussions.

...and what could you provide
> community ICT projects in future?

I am unsure how long this infrastructure will last in its present form. 
I trust that the lessons learnt by the ICT sector in these centres will 
be refined in future community activity.

--
Adam


[1] http://www.communityprogrammes.org.uk/
[2]http://www.communityprogrammes.org.uk/community-arts/centres-arts/future/