Inviting: First VC for the EDUSOL 2009 seminary - Thursday, Feb 26

It's time to drive some buzz this way ;-) Although this post will only be a pointer towards the Spanish post I made on Planeta EDUSOL, for reasons soon to become obvious. In any case, the information I'm posting here is not exactly the same. Can you read Spanish? Please go on to the invitation for the first videoconference for the EDUSOL Seminar.

This year, we the organizers of the On-line Encounter of Education and Free Software (EDUSOL) are aiming higher - we are not "just" having a two-week encounter at the end of the year - We are having an all-year-long Seminar, focusing on the collaborative construction of knowledge. People from quite distinct backgrounds will be part of this project, and we aim to drive it towards the publication of a book.

We (mainly, Alejandro Miranda and me) have been quite busy bootstrapping this seminar, getting the proposed authors, thinking over the intended communication channels and ways, and setting up the needed infrastructure) and are ready to start the public-facing activities.

We will be having monthly videoconferencing sessions, the last Thursday each month, 16:00-18:00 Mexico Central time (currently GMT-6; GMT-5 after the beginning of April). The VC sessions will be also relayed through Ogg streams, and we will have an IRC channel available to offer full interactivity for those who do not have access to a H.323 VC setup.

This first session will be moderated by Victor Manuel Martínez; the speakers will be Alejandro Miranda and myself - The topics we will present are:

• Short project presentation, delineating the list of invited authors and tematic lines we will pursue
• Description of the collaboration scheme we expect to hold, including how everybody (not just invited authors) can participate
• Presentation of one of the topics we will work into in the Seminar: Free Software and the Democratic Construction of the Society

If you have access to videoconferencing facilities, please get in touch with Carlos Cruz, the Videoconferences Coordinator at the Economic Research Institute, as soon as possible for all the needed coordination.