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Revised Original LOEL Strategic Roadmap

TL/dr: This is our ambitious longterm Strategic Roadmap. We also have a more focused Tactical Roadmap.

Our Strategic Plan and How You Can Participate!

From our Original Plan to our New Plan

When LOEL began we had a promise of funding from a private foundation and we created an Ambitious Plan making use of Innovative Software we would develop. A couple of months later that foundation decided to support a less radical project instead (school science fairs). LOEL got put on the back burner for a few years.

The original plan is still part of our vision and future and it is too ambitious for our current resources. We are looking for ways to move forward now on a more modest foundation. As our resources grow, we will to revisit and strategically adopt elements of the original plan.

Everything in this plan is only possible with your participation. And we are open to changing and expanding this plan to best support your participation and the strategic growth of this initiative!

Phases of our New Plan

All Phases

  • Ongoingly enroll people to participate with LOEL
    • Experts, Students, Peer Facilitators
      • LOEL team: What do you want to learn?
    • Leaders, Fund Raisers, Observers, LOEL Evangelists
    • Developers, System Administrators, Attorneys, etc.
  • Create, “market” and improve curricula
    • Experts create curricula
      • starting with a “directory” of existing materials
      • avoiding gratuitously reinventing the wheel
    • Students and Peer Facilitators develop curricula through usage
    • Experts are a resource for Peer Facilitators
  • LOEL grows exponentially!

Phase 1 – 2022 and 2023

  • Let most primary materials be text files.
  • Let most primary documents be OrgMode text files.
    • Including resource “directories”!
  • Manage these files with Git
  • Make these files available via GitHub with GitLab as a backup
    • Free hosting
    • Free bandwidth
  • Use Scripts managed by Makefiles to create derived material
    • Transform OrgMode files to Web Pages, Google Docs, etc.
    • The scripts we need already exist and can be incrementally improved

Phase 2 – 2023 and 2024

  • Raise starting funds
  • Create a Not-For-Profit Educational Foundation
    • Staffed primarily by volunteers
    • No “competitive wage” positions!
  • Establish some Database-Based Web Servers in the Cloud
  • Develop sustainable sources of funding
  • Continue to develop curricula as in Phase 1
  • Integrate LOEL enabling technologies into our computing curricula
    • Web Development and Database curricula
      • Web pages as access to advanced databases
      • Advanced content management in advanced databases
  • Experimentally offer some Curricula using our Database Infrastructure

Phase 3 – 2024 and beyond

  • Create and deploy some of the LOEL services
  • Let LOEL participants
    • improve the LOEL web and database infrastructure
    • gradually move LOEL curricula to LOEL databases
  • Stay Nimble and Up-To-Date
    • Teach the best technology
    • Use the best technology