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April 7, 2006
The enCore Consortium would like to invite the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program
at Texas Tech University to become a partner with the Consortium in developing the enCore
Program. Specifically, the Consortium would like you to join with them in the enCore version 5
Documentation Project.
Background
The enCore Learning Environment began in 1998 as an outgrowth of the Lingua MOO project at
the University of Texas at Dallas. One of the first institutions to adopt enCore was the University
of Bergen, Norway (UiB) where it has institutional support as the online platform for its LINGO
Project, a set of six internet-based educational environments focusing mainly on language-studies
(http://www.lingo.uib.no/). enCore, as an Open Source Program, is now used by universities and
schools around the globe, including Texas Tech University. (See the resource section at the end of
the proposal.)
In Fall 2006, the programmers at UiB will release a new version (v5) of the enCore Learning
Environment that will represent a substantial upgrade in usability and functionality for the
program. Because this new version represents an extensive change from the previous version 4,
new documentation for the program is needed.
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UiB and its chief programmers—Daniel Jung and Trond Pettersen—will do the needed
programming for the single-source documentation configuration illustrated above, including
implementing the appropriate DTDs and XSLT transformations from DocBook.
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enCore v5 Documentation Project
I believe that the proposed partnership between TTU and the enCore Consortium touches on
important mutual interests that make this project beneficial to both entities:
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enCore v5 Documentation Project
B. Writing the help text content (requested done by TTU) --- $9,000
This represents 3 months of work at $3,000/month
(This could fund a team of three writers or other configurations.)
Total Projected cost of project: $21,000
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Final Appeal
I believe that TTU is well-positioned to benefit from participating in this project and to offer a real
service to the enCore community of users at large. Your participation in this Documentation
Project aligns itself with your chief institutional goals because using this single-source
documentation projects as a learning project for graduate students and faculty could help you do
research, give teaching opportunities, and provide a service project that could extend beyond the
summer into classes or other projects such as Online Publishing, Publication Management, and
Usability Testing. Participation in the project may even have a positive influence on recruitment
since TTU's partnership with the enCore Consortium and the University of Bergen will gain it
national as well as international prominence as the new version 5 of enCore becomes more
popular and continues to improve.
I appreciate your consideration of this project. My goal is for the project to be not only one which
you want to do, but one that you see as do-able. Please contact me with questions about the
project, or suggestions you have to make this project more feasible for you.
Respectfully Submitted,
Lennie Irvin
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