Update 11/04/2023 - Brick Translation | Renaming proposal | Work month on hackathon & framework for educational hackathon

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Hello everyone,

An update for the beginning of the month to share your information on current activities around open models education and the brick (branch ?!) of knowledge.

Brick Translation

This project is finally in English, laying the ground for a real internationalisation: https://open-models.org

Interaction with people from different countries comes gradually, this project of consortium on open models education has accelerated the initiative and this changeover has come at a good time.

It's a raw translation, (almost) nothing was changed. The brick is still at a very prototypical stage and everything will need to be improved over the time, from content to tools and its organisation. In english, it let more people work on it to build this idea of a digital common on open models (education).

The building of this resource is really challenging, as of course education is a tricky topic, but also because open models are pretty wide. Trying to be generic let you interact with people in so much different fields and background, so many things could be explainable for people with very different levels of digital, scientific or pedagogical literacy.

Explaining open models isn't always easy, but you already knew that :) And building a digital common is just one small layer of complexity on top of that!

We're at an early stage and we always will be.

Renaming proposal to Branch

A proposal was submitted to rename the « Brick » to a « Branch of Knowledge on Open Models »: #421

I've never been fully convinced on the right name to adopt: brick, branch, base, corpus...

How to represent this idea of a commonly built knowledge freely available, at the intersection of education and science. Semantics is a recurring question.

The branch was a subject that has been on my mind for some time.

With this switch to english, it may be an opportunity to do this change. Why talking about a branch?

During the Age of Enlightenment, the idea of branch was used in the representation of science. Diderot's Encyclopédie was a work to bring as much as possible of these knowledges in a single place, its creators gathering knowledge from all branches of human knowledge, collaborating with the great minds of their time to achieve this.

A branch term that has since entered the language.

The branch proposal seeks to take root in this history, being a single branch on open models in all this infinite knowledge of mankind.

With the digital revolution and open science, also in part with changes in the world and because we're still learning how to conduct science, this could be part of an evolution in science from a proliferation of articles to more structured knowledge bases. To grow branches? Or maybe using bricks to build things.

Any opinions on branches and bricks, what do you think of these names? What would the most meaningful for you ?

Work month on hackathon: developing a framework for educational hackathon (on open models)

A challenge was submitted for a hackathon at the end of the month on open models education with a focus on implementation of open models education inside organisations, based on the consortium project for the NGI application.

See hackathon proposal: https://github.com/Open-Models/ngi-coalition/blob/main/activity/events/hackathon-smart-city-xperience.md

The idea is to build a framework in order to prepare the hackathon, reusable for other one to favour open models education in this kind of environment.

Hackathons can be at the crossroads of many issues, with an educational dimension that is increasingly taken into account, some question regarding the relation with research as a way of knowledge transfer, various interest in hackathon for universities which may be a great manner to interact with them and support open models education inside these institutions.

This framework will be built through another (~)hackathon, a week-long event called Hack the Hackathon in collaboration with (international) hackathon organisers. One other place to promote open models education (and to share a hackathon framework!).