Joe, it sounds like a cool idea. Feel free to be bold
and work on it.
Definitely. I think that at this point "coalition building" is
a reasonable objective. We have tons of *ideas*, but
I think implementation is going to take somewhat broad-based
support. I've been talking to the Teaching Open Source
folks (
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Main_Page)
and they like the idea.
Who would be the college for the for-credit class?
We're definitely still in "looking around" mode. As I mentioned,
I'm at The Open University, UK, and I brought the idea up with
some of the maths people here. But that was just yesterday
and now I'm waiting to hear back. A more conventional college
that nevertheless likes experimental/innovative courses might
be a better bet. (Ideas welcome. CS or mathematics faculty
champions especially welcome :)
The Wikiversity IRC channel is always open, and users
are generally in there
to talk further. You can also bring it up on the Colloquium on Wikiversity.
I anticipate a lot of large-scale issues around "Wiki versus Noosphere"
(Noosphere is PlanetMath's hand-rolled collaboration platform). And
in the long-term, I wonder whether the PlanetMath/Noosphere project
can get folded into Wikimedia on an organizational level. So... there
will be lots of things to talk about.