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 * Michael Trout  Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:21 PM To: rob.deline AT microsoft.com
 * Rob,


 * I am hoping to get your advice on a project that is just getting going, and ultimately your participation. I'm currently pulling together members of a advisory development team to help collaborate, cooperate, and offer direction in this project I am calling K12. Your expertise in human interaction programming would be invaluable to the project.


 * The goal of K12 is straight forward, and very doable with current technology--nothing, I don't think, needs to be invented. The goal: Flatten global K-12 education by putting its complete courseware online (initial emphasis on science and math) and present the material in an immersive, fun, format, built around Rhaptos open-source software to create a new type of metawiki called a wikitube. Everything pertaining to the new project is in real-time and is housed within this www.wikitube.com.


 * My role is that of the producer: identify the key partners, build the team and ultimately raise the money. Timing is critical we need to have something in place for the 100 million kids world-wide that will be getting benefiting form the One Laptop Per Child initiative.


 * Thanks for your consideration,


 * Michael