Soft launch - A new home for the OERu community site

Wayne Mackintosh

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Sep 5, 2015, 2:15:31 AM9/5/15

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Hi everyone,

Many WikiEducators have been contributing to the discussions and implementation of the OERu over the past 4 years.

This is an early notification that the OERu community will be moving to a new home in the near future.

The OER Foundation has established a new site: community.oeru.org, which will become the main community hub for our OERu conversations.

This site is powered by the popular Discourse open source software engine. Discourse works rather well with mobile devices and has a number of powerful community building features.

This is a "soft" launch of the new site. However, we need help to ensure a successful launch and migration to our new home. We are inviting members of the WikiEducator family who are familiar with social media and interested in helping us to seed the new OERu community site with authentic conversation.

Pop in, have a look around. If you're familiar with these technologies, create an account and show your appreciation for interesting contributions by clicking on the heart to like a post. Feel free to add to the conversation.

We still have a little work to do in preparing the site for for the official launch, but in the open source spirit of releasing early and frequently we are inviting you to have a look around.

In the coming weeks, once we have seeded our new community garden, we will post an open email invitation to all members of this wikied...@googlegroups.com list who may be interested in joining community.oeru.org.

Let us know what you think of the new technology - preferably by posting on community.oeru.org

Look forward to seeing you in our new community site!

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Wayne Mackintosh
Director OER Foundation and OERu facilitator

Skype: WGMNZ1
Twitter: Mackiwg

Anil Prasad

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Sep 5, 2015, 2:47:59 AM9/5/15

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Dear Dr. Wayne,

Thank you for the info. Signed up at community.oeru.org . Let us make it an excellent place for showcasing creativity, productivity and commitment of the community.

Warm regards

Anil

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