🚀 go-pugleaf

9th November 1992

Usenet University is now getting into the swing of things
starting to be learned. I have been joining in the work in
alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc and things are starting to develop.

I wonder if we could now discuss a variety of matters, including
the following, but not limited to this selection.
I have in mind people saying where they stand on various matters
with a view to trying to get net based working groups established
or dropping the idea in each case.

Learning Material.
I have got my Turqoise Lattice presentation system for PCs going
and, once I can get official permission from this University to
send it out, then it is a vehicle for writing learning material
packs. It is only a simple system at present, but is useable and
it will not have any licensing problems over sending it around.
Is anyone interested in spending time in preparing fairly substantial
learning packs?

Research.
Is anyone interested in trying to get some sort of long term research
group off the ground. The subject (or subjects if there are two or
more such research groups) would need to be decided by a cooperative
haggling process, possibly in alt.uu.future, but are people able and
willing to try to make part-time research "at" Usenet University
part of their work over a period of several years, with a view to
seeing if the concept can work, but primarily to do actual research?

Credits, Claimed Credits, Claimable Credits &c
Some time ago I put forward the concept of a Self Awarded Credit for
discussion and got firmly put in my place by various people, though not
the regular readers of alt.uu.future I noticed, who all seemed to
be very quiet about it all. Maybe I was totally wrong, but I like to think
that there was a germ of a good idea in there with the prospect of
people being able to claim that they could perform any task in the
validation manual for that credit and being ever ready to do so, with
the possibility that some existing "ground based" institution might
offer such a test under examination conditions leading, if successful,
to a credit.
Could people please discuss the concept with the important variation
from what I previously suggested that we do not call "them" credits
but use some term such as "stars" or maybe even some specially coined
new word.