From its very roots in a community building project started between the U.S. and Russia in 1994 (see http://www.friends-partners.org/), GLORIAD is, at its core, a community building initiative designed to facilitate and, where possible, encourage productive partnerships in science, education and the broader public sphere of activity. It just so happens that we have to first build networks (electronic and otherwise) to facilitate the cooperation we wish to encourage.
Thus, this community building page is, in a very genuine sense, the "heart and soul" of GLORIAD. While the first two years of GLORIAD (from 2005-2006) were necessarily devoted to building physical infrastructure (and the cooperation and agreement between many international partners to do so together), 2007 and 2008 have been focused on the community building initiatives described below.
As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions (use the Contact link at the bottom of any GLORIAD page).
Community Building Initiatives and Services
- GLORIAD Blog
- We have established Blog software so that those associated with GLORIAD and who wish to contribute to its development can publish their own .. well, blog (on-line journal or newsletter).
- GLORIAD Classroom
- The GLORIAD classroom serves as a large curated information clearinghouse with services made accessible via a dynamically generated, multi-lingual, browser independent web interface, and extended search methods. Additionally, the Classroom notifies users of new content through a flexible “current awareness” service by which new information added and curated each day is made available to subscribers based on their own specified interest/s and disseminated via a user-defined, personalized web interface, as well as by email alerts.
- GLORIAD Email Listservers *
- The listing provided shows all email listservers established on the GLORIAD server. As of 2007-05-24, the primary lists active are "gloriad", "glo-exe", "glo-noc". We are looking for people willing to host and encourage discussion on the other focused listservers.
- GLORIAD Update Newsletter
- This is a series of monthly newsletters, started in May 2007, intended to provide information on GLORIAD activities, accomplishments, plans - as well as special interest stories.
- GLORIAD Wiki for Engineers
- This is a "traditional" wiki designed to enable the international team of GLORIAD network engineers design their own community-driven information base and discussion.
- GLORIAD Podcasts
- The GLORIAD US team is implementing tools such as "podcasts," which facilitate more asynchronous modes of communications and information sharing. This page will host the first GLORIAD podcasts which we intend to begin in early summer 2007.
- GLORIAD Wiki for "The Rest of Us"
- This is a "traditional" wiki offered to enable the international GLORIAD team to define/shape the project, share information, manage services and plan for the future of the program and, more broadly, activities involving and affecting international networking.
