Openki

Platform for open education – Free software built with Meteor.js

An interactive web-platform to provide barrier-free access to education for everyone. It is a simple to use open-source tool for local, self-organized knowledge-exchange: As a foundation for mediating non-commercial education opportunities, as interface between people who are interested in similar subjects, and as an instrument which simplifies the organization of “peer-to-peer” sharing of knowledge.

Beside longterm public installations, Openki can be used at unconferences, BarCamps as well as in democratic schools and participatory festivals.

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• Live: openki.net
• Demo/Playground: sandbox.openki.net
• Concept: about.openki.net
• Contact: openki-core[at]lists.xiala.net

All submissions are welcome. To submit a change, fork this repo, commit your changes, and send us a pull request.

Features

• 📝 Easily propose courses and events
• 🔍 Fulltext-search them
• 💬 Simple discussion-board
• 💻 Infoscreen: Live-views with upcoming events for big and small screens (Wiki)
• 📟 Frame-URLs to dynamically embed views into other pages (Wiki)
• 🐱 Categories with sub-categories
• 🚪 Regions- and room-system
• 🎓 Extendable participant roles
• 💮 Groups-, community- and program-system and -filters
• 📅 Calendar and iCal exports (Wiki)
• 🔑 Single-Sign-on (OpenID/OAuth: Github, Facebook, g+)
• 📱 Responsive design: Mobile, tablet and desktop computers
• 🉐 I18n: In-browser-GUI for crowdsourced, live translation (using meteor-messageformat)
• ✉️ Email notifications

Intended features

• ⬜ White-labeling for groups, locations and regions
• 📂 File upload for course-documentation
• 🔐 Privacy settings and security
• ✔️ Voting-/polling-system, fix-a-date schedules
• 📫 Privat messaging
• 📛 OpenBadges
• 👻 Customizability
• 🎱 Connection to SocialNetworks APIs
• 📱 Smartphone App

Installation (Linux, OSX and Windows)

• To install Meteor locally, run: curl https://install.meteor.com | sh (or download the installer for Windows)
• Download and unzip or git clone https://github.com/Openki/Openki.git Openki into /some/path.
• cd /some/path/Openki
• meteor npm install
• Run meteor --settings settings.dev.json
• Browse to localhost:3000 -> done. (admin: greg/greg, any other visible user has pwd greg as well)

Documentation

• The technical documentation is here on Github in the 📖 Wiki
• More documentation can be found on our blog

License

• AGPL – GNU Affero General Public License (for the sourcecode)
• For all course contents and descriptions (if not differently indicated): Creative Commons BY-SA
• For all testing-events descriptions (server/data/testing.events.js): Creative Commons BY-NC-SA