[Bodington-developers] sCal8 bid - request for stakeholders

[Selwyn L. <sel...@ph...>]

Hi all,

Phosphorix are partners in a bid called sCal8.

Building directly from the ioPoral projects and the CPDNoticeboard and 
the GCWS project... of which Tetra community and partners are stakeholders

http://www.cpdnoticboard.ac.uk

and

http://gcws.ionetwork.ac.uk

I'm emailing to see if you would like to be more formally involved as 
either partners or stakeholders in the bid.

All we need is a letter of formal support or a letter of general and 
informal support and why you think the project could be of benefit to 
your team or organisation.

Should the bid be a success then we would simply be looking for 
opportunities to run end user focus groups workshops with free goodies 
and of course payment for the hosts facilities.

Should the not be a succes we will still be looking looking for 
opportunities to run end user focus groups workshops however with less 
expensive free goodies and of no money to pay for the hosts facilities.

I append some words from the bid which is about finished... sorry its so 
last minute but you know how these things are.

Please help us make open source development a success and write a letter 
of either formal or informal support. All new outputs requoired by 
Tertra will be Apache2 as agreed at the Oxford meeting.

By the way we have been testing a second version of GCWS this week so 
that should be out soon enough.

Cheers

Selwyn


It's 8:30am Friday morning, Rose a third year student at Bournemouth 
University is at breakfast and reading the offer on the cereal box, her 
phone and laptop bleep at the same time. She picks up her phone and 
finds a message from sCal8 its her timetable for that day, biology 
lecture first thing, lunch with Amy and tea with the Lisa Simpson 
appreciation society.

The sCal8 project sets out to deliver a user focussed feature rich 
timetabling, calendaring and networking service any time, any place and 
many how. There are many ways sCal8 users can receive updates, alerts 
and many types of notification, users will of course want to manage the 
how, when and why...

By teaming with a range of stakeholder groups from the North West, South 
West and East of England, the sCal8 team will deliver a end user driven 
pilot development across these regions. The project team will form 
specific service development groups of end users, learners in FE, 
learners in HE, work placed learners, practitioners and staff within the 
universities. A range of funded project partners and ioPortal direct 
stakeholders from Hertfordshire, Chester, Liverpool Hope, Manchester 
Metropolitan and Bournemouth and their respective FE partnerships 
already provide a number of cohorts and focus groups to the emerging 
ioPortal community.

The project will have further opportunities to work with stakeholders 
and end users from the GMSA, YHELLN, MOVE and SWLLN lifelong learning 
networks.

sCal8 is in strong position to implement a service based on software 
developed in eight previous JISC and non JISC projects; The Learning 
Matrix, XCRI, EELLS, ICEBOX, EP4LL, PDP4Life, GCWS, The CPD Noticeboard 
and from current and ongoing stakeholder projects ioMorph, 
ioNetworkNode, ioPortal, SOLVS, ioNW2, PDP4XL2, MOVE XCRI and MOVE 
Learner Services.

sCal8 will may launch a live pilot as early as one month into the project.


Amy is a student at Somerset College of Art and Technology, using the 
web cafe at the college library, she logs into the sCal8 service and 
finds she has three new messages, one from Rose one from the Perranporth 
surf lifesaving club and one from her tutor. The message from her tutor 
is a meeting request from his Outlook client, she accepts the meeting 
request, her personal calendar is updated and an acceptance notification 
is returned by email to her tutor. Amy uses the sCal8 sync tool on her 
mobile phone to update her phone's calendar and built in alerts.

Prior and current research for the sCal8 is derived from ioPortal 
prototype evaluations with project stakeholder groups and in particular 
student focus workshops in Liverpool, Manchester, Hertfordshire, Oxford, 
Cambridge, Bournemouth, Yeovil, Weymouth and crystallises the project 
strategy.

In sCal8 we could not be clearer of the need to prioritise user led 
feature requests with the following module development for; location 
based course information, learning events reminders, timetables for 
planning, calendars for networking groups, socialising and diaries, team 
journal activities and other time based learning activities.

With the sCal8 projects pilot service it will be possible for its 
adopters to; organise their own or others time, arrange meetings, find 
courses and preview them in their calendar, develop time based plans and 
personal development, keep a journal, join networks and groups with the 
same interests as you.

It doesn't really matter if Rose or Amy use calendars or have web 
gadgets of their own as long as the have access to a mobile phone, 
computer or over device with a web connection then they can either 
organise or be organised via sCal8.

Ready to implement open standard, open source and free to education 
software; GCWS portal, RicX course information network, ioNetworkNode 
and ioPortal provide a rapid service development framework for Social 
Calendaring and Course Information services.

The underlying ioNetworkNode technology means stakeholder projects and 
early adopters can interoperate and network portal to portal, project to 
project and organisation to organisation. Opportunities will emerge for 
wider community networking. Stakeholder projects and their ioPortal 
users benefit directly from service to service interoperability, 
allowing practitioners and learners to exchange work and share modules, 
do mash-ups and build their own widgets for their respective 
implementations via the ioNetworkNode update framework.

As you will learn in the sCal8 bid Rose and co will both influence and 
benefit as the sCal8 project “does what it says on the tin” and more.

The sCal8 team, partners and stakeholders are therefore very excited 
about this bid and the potential to take a pilot service to a new level, 
the aim is to provide a service which is ready as a UK wide opportunity 
for lifelong learners and learning communities.

-- 
Selwyn Lloyd
Phosphorix 
Open Source Systems for Lifelong Learning
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