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PDX #powerballVC Reaps Rewards Worthy of Wall St

29 Sep 2008 By Nate Angell 2 Comments

I’m pleased to report that the first ever PDX Powerball Venture Capital fund returned earnings worthy of a Wall Street investment fund. With a generous $155 in initial capital, #powerballVC returned a stunning $9 in winnings!

After subtracting our promised 10%—or $0.90 —donation to the Legion of Tech, 31 #powerballVC fund members divide the remaining $8.10 equally to earn a whopping $0.26 each for their original $5 investment—a healthy -94.8% profit!

If you are among the lucky 31 #powerballVC fund founders, please tweet me your vote for how we should invest the fund’s current $9 capitalization:

Let it ride (ie, buy $9 worth of Powerball tickets for the next drawing)
Liquify (ie, buy a pitcher of beer for LoT board members at the next LoT Happy Hour)
Get out now (ie, collect your 26¢ before the market crashes)

For anyone who’s interested, 3 out of our 155 powerball tickets won $3 each by matching 29, the powerball number for the Sat 27 Sep 2008 drawing. If anyone wants to look over the remaining 152 losing tickets to double check for other winners, let me know.

PDX #powerballVC

26 Sep 2008 By Nate Angell 6 Comments

Based on an idea by @linuxaid, we announce the first PDX Powerball venture capitalist (#powerballVC) group.

Our own Legion of Tech has been nominated as the trusted #powerballVC steward and will receive 10% of any winnings to support their awesome work to grow and nurture the local Portland community through free, educational, community-run technology events.

Anyone who gives/pledges $5 no later than noon tomorrow (ie, 12pm PT Saturday 27 Sep 2008) can join the final draw and I’ll collect your contribution later if necessary. All entrants will split the winnings equally, minus LoT’s share.

I’ll buy the greatest number of random-number tickets possible for the Saturday 27 Sep 2008 OR Lottery Powerball draw. I promise not to buy any other tickets, so any I hold win for all of us.

Pledge either by leaving your comment below (OpenID-enabled!) or tweeting me @xolotl.

Current Powerball Venture Capitalists include:

Digital Transformation: What Is It?

Digital Transformation: What Is It?

Digital transformation in EDU.

Curated by nateangell.

Open Knowledge Institutions

Advancement occurs as a reward for connectedness and usefulness, not for elite recognition.

Change the metric of EDU success from excellence to connectedness and usefulness.

Curated by nateangell.

Open Knowledge Institutions

Open knowledge institutions of higher learning foreground and prioritise the constituent communities that their students, alumni, faculty, staff, administrators, partners and collaborators both comprise and promote.

Curated by nateangell.

Opinion | The Never-Ending Disruption of American History

Political and technological dislocation have fed off each other since the nation’s founding. Now they are dangerously out of whack.

The underlying premise is that there used to be a balance between tech innovation and political response in the USA, but since Reagan, there has not.

Curated by nateangell.

A radically open approach to developing infrastructure for Open Science

I believe a model where commercial providers develop and maintain open scholarly communications infrastructure requires four basic principles of openness: Open Source, Open Data, Open Integrations, and Open Contracts.

Hindawi CEO lays out the four elements he sees as key to proprietary companies participating effectively in building and providing infrastructure to support open science.

Curated by nateangell.

Promoting innovation and reducing inequity in scholarship: Europe’s Plan S for Open Science

The plan, which was initiated by Robert Jan Smits, the Open Access Envoy of the European Commission, outlines 10 principles, which can be distilled into four essential actions:

A summary of Plan S, the European plan to support open access publishing.

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Stakeholder FAQs

FAQs on open access policies from the Open Research Funders Group.

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Open education resources and perceptions of financial value

Open education resources and perceptions of financial value

OER and cost perceptions.

Curated by nateangell.

Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part II | National Review

Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part II

Also see [Part I of this interview](https://hyp.is/0e4qkrRwEeiXf9foltyMXw/www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/jonathan-haidt-coddling-of-the-american-mind-igen-students/) with Jonathan Haidt.

Curated by nateangell.

Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part 1 | National Review

Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part 1

Also see [Part II of this interview](https://hyp.is/rtvD8rRwEei5Ac-jMgZp7A/www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/jonathan-haidt-coddling-of-the-american-mind-college-experience/) with Jonathan Haidt.

Curated by nateangell.

College of Social Sciences and Humanities < Northeastern University

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities is a leader in the experiential liberal arts.

Outline of experiential education requirements at a specific university.

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The Promise of the Experiential Liberal Arts

The Promise of the Experiential Liberal Arts

Argues for integrating experiential education into liberal arts, and experiential liberal arts into every discipline to advance "soft skills".

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Leveraging Technology to Create Social Readers

Between publishers' higher costs of textbooks and students' struggle with large amounts of reading materials, getting students to both access and engage more deeply with texts is a challenge.

Two challenges that #OER and #annotation together can provide infrastructure to help solve: the high cost of learning materials and engaging teachers and learners in social reading, discussion and analysis. Issues to solve: both OER and annotation don't require digital reading, but are both made more powerful through it. Yet technology access and reading preferences don't always support to digital reading. Solution: Explore online and offline, digital and print experiments in OER and annotation/social reading.

Curated by nateangell.

A Broader Form of Openness – Ethan Senack – Medium

most of all, re-establishes education as a force for equity and social mobility — and I think open licensing is a crucial piece of that equation.I’m not content, though, with open licensing being the extent of our vision, and I hope many others feel the same way.

Amen: open licensing as key infrastructure in improving public education rather than an end in itself!

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Collaboration started during April, 2018.

Inception date for the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools.

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Engineering Levels

Patreon Engineering Levels

Engineering focus, but a very detailed rubric of how to rank different personnel levels. Could maybe be generalized/adapted for other fields.

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Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1

Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1

See also [my tweet](https://twitter.com/xolotl/status/1031980453421408256): What I coincidence! Like Facebook, I also measure people's credibility on a scale of zero to one, or what I like to think of as a scale of Pinocchio to Cassandra. It would be cool to hear what @marshallk @holden and @vgr think of this:

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Remi Kalir on Twitter: "Well, for the record, I had no idea. Emojis for everyone! /insert awesome emoji here/… "

insert awesome emoji here

❤️

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Señorita Spielberg on Twitter

emoji-tate

👍🏿❤️

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7 Things You Should Know About Open Education: Policies

Administrators who are charged with the development of open education policy may not fully understand the opportunities inherent in OER and OEP, partic-ularly for learners.

The other key area of alignment: with learners.

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