Universal Education by Adrian G. Mowrey

[Scott Balneaves]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:29:31AM -0400, Adrian G. Mowrey wrote:

<snip>

> This project
> will try its best to solve absolutely any problem that stops hundreds,
> thousands, hundred of thousands, or even millions of boys and girls around
> the world to completely finish a primary schooling because of the high
> costs.

Yikes!  Tall order :)

<snip>

> To save money on the learning materials, we must create an
> International center that creates all of the learning materials
> electronically.

Well, if you want to realize your dream, here's some practical things you might
want to look at to get you started:

1) Help with translations within Ubuntu/Edubuntu.  Not all applications have
reached 100% translation yet, and doing the translation's fairly easy.  Just
get yourself a launchpad account, and start submitting strings (I think the
"translate this application" link is still there for a lot of apps).

2) If you're looking to help with content, there's a few things you could do:
  * The Edubuntu handbook could always use a makeover
  * I don't know much about moodle, but maybe you could provide free content
    (chem, geo, etc) for Moodle that people could use.
  * Work on cleaning up/editing/translating pages on the wiki.

> This International center will be
> sponsored by any country throughout the world, and all of the learning
> materials will be freely offered to any student.

I know the U.N. has student programs, maybe contact them.

> All of the universal
> subjects (Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, etc.) will be
> translated in every language (Romanian, Spanish, English, Hindi, etc.), and
> then distributed to all of the countries with the appropriate speaking
> language.

Much of this is already implemented in Lauchpad.

> To be able to successfully accomplish this goal, I would like to create a
> dynamic Web application that will contain all of the learning materials
> needed in primary schooling.

Moodle seems to be what you're looking for here.

Scott

-- 
Scott L. Balneaves | "There are many causes I am prepared to die for,
Systems Department |  but no causes I am prepared to kill for."
Legal Aid Manitoba |    -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi