Lead Software Engineer for OERF and WikiEducator

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi everyone

The OER Foundation is proud to announce the appointment of Jim Tittsler as Lead Software Engineer.

Jim is a well-known member of the WikiEducator family. He has been providing WikiEducator with sterling technical support as a community volunteer.

Jim has over 30 years experience in computer hardware and software design, and his technical leadership of the eXeLearning project will be invaluable as we move forward with the technical refinements and innovations required of a dedicated educational wiki.  With generous funding support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the OER Foundation is now able to support WikiEducator with an exciting project to improve OER content interoperability between the MediaWiki and the Connexions technology platforms. With thanks to open source software and open content licensing WE will demonstrate that in open education "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

Jim -- from all of us at OERF and WikEducator -- congratulations on this new position and a heartfelt welcome!!!!  We look forward in joining you on this exciting journey to make the future happen :-)

(With apology for duplicate postings)

--
Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
Director,
International Centre for Open Education,
Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
Board of Directors, OER Foundation.
Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org
Mobile +64 21 2436 380
Skype: WGMNZ1
Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg

[Erik Moeller]

2009/10/26 Wayne Mackintosh <mackinto...@gmail.com>:

> The OER Foundation is proud to announce the appointment of Jim Tittsler as
> Lead Software Engineer.

Wonderful news! Congratulations, Jim! :-)
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

Congratulations, Jim.
Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
Sharing is Caring!
Doctoral Student
Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Integrating Technology @ http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd
Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/
Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops

[Robert Kruhlak]

Great choice! Congrats Jim!

Cheers

Rob

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Robert Kruhlak
North Vancouver, BC
CANADA
(M) +1 778 230 1875
(E) kru...@gmail.com

[aprasad]

CONGRATULATIONS JIM!

--
Warm regards

Anil

http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad

http://www.apletters.blogspot.com

 

[Gita Mathur]

CONGRATULATIONS JIM!
Warm regards
Gita
-
Dr. Gita Mathur <gita....@gmail.com>
Associate Professor of Botany
Gargi College (University of Delhi)
Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049
skype:gitamathur

Web:
http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur
http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates
http://wikieducator.org/India
http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur
http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26
http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27

[Jesse Groppi]

Big congrats, Jim!

[Sarita Kumar]

Hi Jim,

Heartiest congratulations.

DSarita Kumar

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http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjay
http://www.wikieducator.org/India
http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Administrators
http://www.wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College
http://www.andcollege.du.ac.in

[Randy Fisher]

Let me add my voice to the rising chorus - mazel tov, Jim.

BTW: there have been many times when Jim has lent a helping hand to myself and others via Skype, Email, IRC and the odd voice chat.... just having his peppy little icon in my screen, makes me feel like WikiEducator's future is assured. Way to go!

- Randy

--
Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource.

________________
Randy Fisher, MA, OMD
Senior Consultant & Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada

Senior Consultant, Organization & Business Development
International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand

Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org
+1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST)
Skype: wikirandy
Twitter: wikirandy

* Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management & Performance
* Organization Design & Development
* Sustainable Project Implementation & Community-Building
* E-Learning, Online Collaboration & Communities of Practice
* Coaching & Facilitation
* My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com

[vmensah]

Congratulations Jim. You have made us all proud to be members of the
WE community. More greese to your elbows.

Cheers,
Victor.



On Oct 27, 4:19 am, Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> The OER Foundation is proud to announce the appointment of Jim Tittsler as
> Lead Software Engineer.
>
> Jim is a well-known member of the WikiEducator family. He has been providing
> WikiEducator with sterling technical support as a community volunteer.
>
> Jim has over 30 years experience in computer hardware and software design,
> and his technical leadership of the eXeLearning project will be invaluable
> as we move forward with the technical refinements and innovations required
> of a dedicated educational wiki.  With generous funding support from the
> William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the OER Foundation is now able to
> support WikiEducator with an exciting project to improve OER content
> interoperability between the MediaWiki and the Connexions technology
> platforms. With thanks to open source software and open content licensing WE

> will demonstrate that in open education "t*he whole is greater than
> the sumof its
> parts*."

[Kim Tucker]

Goodday all,

Re:
http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Amendments_to_Open_Community_Governance_Policy

Please advise on the following issues for the Open Community Governance
Policy:

1. WikiEducator Patron: Pros and Cons of having one/more and the role of
Patron(s)

2. WikiEducator Community Council: Removal of Members

3. Officers of the WikiEducator Council: Removal of Officers

Please add comments and advice on the Issue tracker:

http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Amendments_to_Open_Community_Governance_Policy/Issue_Tracker

The items are listed in the Table of contents "@@" prefixes, and their
entries are marked red and orange (high priority, tricky).

If you know of any knowledge resources of relevance to open community
governance, please add links to the Resources page:

http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Amendments_to_Open_Community_Governance_Policy/Resources

Many thanks

Kim

PS Help on any of the other issues listed is also welcome :-) and feel
free to join the workgroup by listing yourself in the table on the
Charter:
http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Amendments_to_Open_Community_Governance_Policy#Members_and_signatures