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Categorizing existing educational materials about Bitcoin #30

Closed nikosbentenitis closed 10 years ago

nikosbentenitis commented 10 years ago

One of the tasks of the committee is to select and categorize existing educational materials about Bitcoin. The main purpose of this task is to create a list of committee-reviewed materials that Foundation members and members of the general public can access. In addition, the "best" materials from each category will likely be highlighted in the 2015 conference of the Foundation.

In order to make the selection of materials more tractable, it would be useful to find 3-4 categories that these materials will fall into. There have been discussions about the categories in the committee's weekly teleconferences (see the minutes) but a more thorough discussion on Github is necessary.

Here are the guidelines:

  1. Suggest 3-4 categories, no more, and don't suggest subcategories.
  2. Share your opinion until August 31.
  3. Refrain from spending much effort criticizing other people's categorizations. This is the so-called "brainstorming" phase. Instead, propose your own categories.

To start the discussion, here are the three categories that I propose:

  1. Best educational materials for beginners
  2. Best educational materials for merchants
  3. Best educational materials for intermediate users
DOSHOSTNET commented 10 years ago

I suggest the following:

  1. Best educational materials for Bitcoin Users
  2. Best educational materials for Business/NonProfit
  3. Best educational materials for Bitcoin Technological Development

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Nikos Bentenitis notifications@github.com wrote:

One of the tasks of the committee is to select and categorize existing educational materials about Bitcoin. The main purpose of this task is to create a list of committee-reviewed materials that Foundation members and members of the general public can access. In addition, the "best" materials from each category will likely be highlighted in the 2015 conference of the Foundation.

In order to make the selection of materials more tractable, it would be useful to find 3-4 categories that these materials will fall into. There have been discussions about the categories in the committee's weekly teleconferences (see the minutes https://github.com/btcfoundationedcom/btcfoundationedcom.github.io/tree/master/minutes) but a more thorough discussion on Github is necessary.

Here are the guidelines:

  1. Suggest 3-4 categories, no more, and don't suggest subcategories.
  2. Share your opinion until August 31.
  3. Refrain from spending much effort criticizing other people's categorizations. This is the so-called "brainstorming" phase. Instead, propose your own categories.

To start the discussion, here are the three categories that I propose:

  1. Best educational materials for beginners
  2. Best educational materials for merchants
  3. Best educational materials for intermediate users

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/btcfoundationedcom/btcfoundationedcom.github.io/issues/30 .

mdhaze commented 10 years ago

Good question.

I see the categories as being

  1. Using bitcoin
  2. Political and social ramifications.
  3. Legal and regulatory
  4. Technical

These more or less resemble sections of forums, come to think of it. However, in the current context there is a specific orientation, which is education on topics 1,2, 3, and 4.

valerian253 commented 10 years ago

Best Educational Materials about:

  1. Getting Started with Bitcoin
  2. Bitcoin for Business
  3. Advanced Bitcoin and Beyond

harding commented 10 years ago
  1. Bitcoin for individuals
  2. Bitcoin for organizations
  3. Bitcoin for developers
  4. Bitcoin for policy makers and the press

The first three are basically rewordings of @DOSHOSTNET's suggestions; the fourth is sort of a combination of @mdhaze's middle two suggestions.

sressler commented 10 years ago

It seems like we have two category directions going here: 1) Bitcoin for <some entity/role> 2) Information on related to Bitcoin. both are perfectly good and valid but I tend to think of organizing along (2) as it's more specific. I always have a hard time with categories since I always think of other types and find "tagging" more useful for things like articles and files. So whatever we wind up creating for catagories I'd like to be able to tag the articles with keywords...Zotero has a good tagging mechanism so we might want in addition to a set of categories a set of tags such as: beginner, intermediate, advanced, business, consumer, legal and on and on ;-)

ABISprotocol commented 10 years ago

I'm siding with @harding's suggestions, having been on the phone conference related to this and also tracking the issue here in github. To be a bit more specific, I think that being a bit more general is useful in terms of the categories. Rather than something that's too specific (e.g. businesses or merchants), "organizations" is better (in this context, as a general term for a category). You could get really lost attempting to cover all the bases of organizational differences in different categories. Keep it few. Keep it simple. I agree with @sressler on the concept of tagging.

nikosbentenitis commented 10 years ago

Thank you all for your submissions. Please vote using this Doodle poll to determine the winning categories.

On a related note, in order to help members of the Bitcoin community submit links with educational materials about Bitcoin, an online form has been set up. The members present at the August 26, 2014 meeting of the committee, agreed that a good start for those categories are those suggested by David A. Harding (Bitcoin for individuals, Bitcoin for organizations, Bitcoin for developers, Bitcoin for policy makers and the press.) Those categories will be changed based on the result of the Doodle poll.

nikosbentenitis commented 10 years ago

The poll on the categories for the educational materials is now closed. Six people voted and the following categories received the most votes:

  1. Bitcoin for organizations (6 votes)
  2. Bitcoin for individuals (5 votes)
  3. Bitcoin for developers (5 votes)
  4. Bitcoin for policy makers and the press (3 votes)
  5. Bitcoin for beginners (3 votes)

Please keep those categories in mind as you choose the educational materials that you can add to our online form or directly into the Zotero group.