Re: [Self-platform-dev] organizer authorship

[Nagarjuna G.]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Federico Heinz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 27/02/2008, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
>  > When an author contributes by making changes to the organizer, he/she
>  > is defining the seuqence of lessons.  this is a useful contribution.
>  > we are recording on the course object the change.  Therefore we need
>  > to specify, where on the UI we acknowledge the display of the author
>  > who did the reorganization.
>
>  Well... in the same place where we display the name of the version we are
>  currently looking at?
>
>  This also places a rather tough question as to how to compute this 
> contribution
>  to that of authors who contribute text. I don't think there is a meaningful 
> way
>  to combine them. For the time being, I guess it is best just to take just
>  textual contributions into account when computing ratings. I realize this is
>  far from perfect, but I can't figure out a better way.
>

placing things in order is no mean task.  in fact, the internet is
full of content.  the reason why most of it cannot be found to be easy
to use is not because the content is not good, but because the stuff
is not presented in a sequence and ordered in a consumable way.

Most of the material that we have now in the platform, is not entirely
authored by the team, but by some other author.

I expect that most active and useful contribution in the self platform
will be manual harvesting and sequencing and grouping the content.  If
this is not taken into rating, what could be the motivation for
contributors to spend time manually harvesting copyleft content and
present it for consumption.

Nagarjuna