From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 08:57:08 MDT
-- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.leitl.org 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:49:07 +0530 From: Srinivasan Ramakrishnan <sriniram@symonds.net> Reply-To: silklist@lists.vipul.net To: silklist@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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