I Met Rufus Pollock
After not only inviting me to the Silicon Valley Comes To Cambridge day, my good friend Stephen Rowley introduced me to Rufus Pollock over the weekend, of the Open Knowledge Foundation, who are doing some great work and are very much in the campaign for freedom despite in name being merely “open.”
The OKFN blog is full of good stuff too, eg
He that ‘tinkering’ is an important form of learning - and suggested we are experiencing a new wave of tinkering as a result of open software and content. He also described a vision of a world where learners are also educators in an ‘open participatory learning ecosystem’. Central to this vision is the notion of a culture of sharing, remixing, blending, and modifying which is enabled by open licensing practices. In his view, the combination of eScience, eHumanities, OERs and web 2.0 is creating a ‘perfect storm of opportunity’ for such an ecosystem to flourish.
— OKFN post about Open Learn 2007
And they have some nice flyers that I’ll take to conferences I go to and help to promote them.
The I Met Rufus Pollock by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
November 19, 2007 | Filed Under Personal Thoughts
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