Archive for December, 2006

Presentation at Learning Futures 2007

I’m very pleased to have been invited by Gilly Salmon to present at the Beyond Distance Learning Futures 2007 conference in January. It will be held at Leicester University, where Gilly is based, on the 9th and 10th of January.

The title of my talk is Converging and Emerging Online Cultures: creative collaboration and a future […]

Omnium to begin new project to aid Filipino textile workers

Workers’ houses along the river

For the last few months, I have been planning a new project that will take place to help a Filipino community of craftworkers in and around Manila. I have had meetings in Manila with staff (including the Dean) from the Faculty of Design & Art at the College of Saint-Benilde which […]

Main Omnium website updates

The Omnium website was updated today to include information and screenshots about the upcoming release of the new 2007 Omnium Softwareâ„¢. The new software which will include an open-source provision for the first time should be ready for download by the end of January.

The Sydney based members of the Omnium team (Rick, Sam, Charles, Paul, […]

Omnium @ the AUC Conference

Last week Omnium presented another talk at the Apple University Consortium conference in Brisbane, Australia, titled:

The Omnium Project: Global Communities, Ethical Futures and a New Open-Source Solution.

The 90 minute talk, presented by Sam and me (Rick) covered a lot of new material, plans for projects in 2007 and concluded by announcing the new open-source Omnium […]

Hello.

I hate blog posts that start with “Welcome to..” Hello seemed like a better option because we want this to be a conversation, just like a decent blog should be.

The Omnium blog is intended to be a public conversation between all of those involved in The Omnium Project as well as with the many hundreds […]