[MLB-WIRELESS] [Fwd: [silk] ADUni - University on a disk (fwd)]

[dwayne]

a: this is cool
b: can anyone help?
c: errr, I'm *really* sure I haven't sent this out before. If I have,
stick widdle pins in a doll which looks like me or something.

Dwayne

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Subject: [silk] ADUni - University on a disk (fwd)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:57:08 +0200 (CEST)
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
To: <transhumantech at yahoogroups.com>
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:49:07 +0530
From: Srinivasan Ramakrishnan <sriniram at symonds.net>
To: silklist at lists.vipul.net
Subject: [silk] ADUni - University on a disk

Hi,

ArsDigita University (http://www.aduni.org/) had an interesting goal, to
offer the world's best computer science education, at an undergraduate
level, to people who were otherwise unable to obtain it.

See http://www.aduni.org/courses/ and
http://www.aduni.org/about/#concept

AdUni has gone into deep freeze after ArsDigita(.com) lost funding. Not
wanting a good thing to go waste they have 80 gigs of streamable real
media
videos of the actual lectures on the website. I have finally managed to
get
a mirror of the website with all the videos, problem sets and lecture
notes.

The material is released under the OpenContent License (OPL)
[http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml]. I would like this to reach as
many
people as possible. I intend burning DVDs of this for a few of my
friends at
the local LUG. But, I'm on the lookout for a broader distribution medium
to
enable it to reach as many people as possible. I'm planning to meet the
local cable ISPs in Chennai to get them to mirror it on their servers
and
stream it to their users.

I'm on the lookout for ways and means of making this reach just about
anybody who'd be interested in this sort of a thing. I'm also looking
for
volunteers who could take this and spread this in their part of the
world...
and generally interesting ideas on what can be done with this...

Do you think the time is right for this sort of thing to have a
significant
impact in this part of the world, considering the cost of disseminating
80
Gigs of digital content?

Cheers,
-Srini
--
http://symonds.net/~sriniram

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