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Wiki, what’s going on? (Part 10-QtCon Day2)

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Day2 blog post is one day late but, you know, you have to wait for good things!

QtCon-Day2 was amazing! It’s great to see people from other communities that share your same interests and have to face your same problems. Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has an education program and one of its managers had a talk explaining all the challenges they had to struggle with. It’s surprising to find out that we share lot of ideas and lot of critical issues. QtCon is the ideal place to hear new stories, to share your and to collaborate for the creation of new ideas.

 

What about your WikiToLearn team? They rock! Tunale is coding like there’s no tomorrow to release course editor: the easiest way to write on WikiToLearn is not that far! Pipsin is importing one book after the other: be ready for more than 1000 chapters on the Italian portal by the end of the week. Crisbal and Rigolo are working hard for the new homepage – I had a preview and I can assure that you’re going to love it! Valsdav and his thinkpad are working together to automatize most of the work for the communication plan. Ruphy and Mbona are spreading the word about WikiToLearn: watch out, a local hive may be created in your own city!

Great things are going on, great news are coming! As someone would say, we are working hard to provide the best WikiToLearn yet 🙂

Stay tuned, #wtlatAkademy is getting real!

 

FSFE had its birthday party yesterday night and it was amazing, but this is another story (and I don’t want you to be too envying lol) 😀

Wiki, what’s going on? (Part 9-QtCon2016 Day1)

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QtCon started today and what I can say so far it’s: “just amazing”. The organization is great and provided everything needed (food and drink too, thanks 😀 ).

 

Let’s talk about more concrete things… Today your WikiToLearners worked hard to define the new homepage, to uniform all content pages with the conventions decided and for participation and community building. This morning Jens (KDE VDG) had a great talk about communities organization and collaboration: we really loved it! What else? Our developers had a real tough day: course editor, new homepage, content organization and new chapters importation took up their time; they’re doing it for you and you’re going to love the new WikiToLearn coming out soon.

 

The day ended up with lightning talks. We had the possibility to present to the KDE, Qt communities and other attendees what we have done so far and our future plans.

 

Day 1 is almost gone, but now at BCC it’s time for Qt Party 🙂

 

That’s it for today, WikiToLearners 😀

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Wiki, what’s going on? (Part 8-Akademy2016)

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Hello everybody,

It’s august and probably you are on holiday, life seems beautiful and you hope this period never ends, but… Happy or not September is about to arrive, and your daily routine is too. Don’t be afraid though: in these months the WikiToLearn community is working hard to provide you the best WikiToLearn you’ve seen so far.

 

From a brand new homepage to a better organization for news and social pages: you’re going to love it! September is not that sad though: why? If the new WikiToLearn isn’t enough for you, probably Akademy is: the annual word summit of KDE, this year happening in Berlin with QtCon, is one of the greates events for FOSS and we are taking part to it! Why is it so special for us? First of all because we’re part of the KDE community and we are looking forward to meet other members, share opinions and help each other, but also because this period is going to be special: KDE has its 20th birthday while Free Software Foundation Europe and VideoLAN both have their 15th birthday. Not over yet: you know who’s celebrating its birthday too in the same period? WikiToLearn! 😀

 

During these months we worked hard to create local communities, to spread the word about our project, to give more attention and help to new users and to come up with a better communication plan that allows you to be always up to date on what’s going on in our community. September is not that far and it’s full of great news, get ready and prepare yourself!

Watch out: #wtlatakademy #wtlbirthday and others can become viral on our social pages in few weeks, we’re going to Akademy! 😉

Bye

 

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Wiki, what’s going on? (Part 7)

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Tears followed by joy and happiness, discussions followed by great moments all together, problems followed by their solution and enthusiasm. Am I talking about my family? More or less, because actually I am talking about a family: the WikiToLearn community!

This last period was full of ups and downs, but that is inevitable in such a project. We are a big family and we do have to face problems, but with willingness and devotion to what we are doing we can manage to overcome such problems and make things go as we want to – or, at least, try to do so.

We are putting our best efforts in what we are doing: our devs are working hard to release the 0.8 version, a first step toward our main goal – the 1.0; promo team is now trying to start local hives (or groups) in different countries; editors have their summer plans to review contents and to create new ones; the importing group is ready and very soon we are having more and more high-quality books available. Members of our family are working together to make WikiToLearn great and to give you (yes, you!) the best place we can give you to study and to create collaborative textbooks!

We are focused on September: with the beginning of the new academic year we have to fully exploit our potential and move toward #operation1000; moreover in September we are also celebrating our first birthday!

Guys, great things are coming: stay tuned!

Wiki, what’s going on? (Part 6-WikiMania2016 Esino Lario)

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Take a little town of 700 souls. Take more than one thousand wikipedians from Wikipedia and its sister projects who are organized for the most important conference about themes such as free education, open software and textbooks and free knowledge. Ok, now put these two elements togheter: what do you get? WikiMania 2016, held in Esino Lario: the annual conference celebrating Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects with conferences, discussions, meetups, training and a hackathon.

 

Themes such as free education and open textbooks, which are fundamentals in our philosophys, were deepened in details: we had the possibility to meet different members from WikiEdu and WikiMedia communities and we talked about our project with them. It’s amazing to see that there are so many people willing to create strong projects to spread knowledge all around the world! Workshops, talks and discussions with members of these communities have made these days simply amazing!

 

We made great contacts with lot of contributors and found lot of people interested in what we are doing: stay tuned! Great news are coming very soon!

 

Bye,

Matteo

 

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