A break in the clouds is on its way....
SunshinePPS is an effort to create a
community-driven, policy-oriented website
to serve the
families and community members of
Portland Public Schools,
the largest school district in Oregon. This site is
a project of the
Center for Transparent
Analysis and Policy.
SunshinePPS comprises two interconnected services, :Wiki and :Talk.
SunshinePPS:Wiki is a
place to collect the community's institutional knowledge
— the documents, analyses, wisdom, and histories that are now
scattered in fragments around the community — into a central
location so that it can be more easily discovered, more
broadly disseminated, and less likely
forgotten. SunshinePPS:Talk is
a central meeting place for discussing
policy issues throughout the district. Until now, such
discussions have been siloed within a multitude of online and
offline forums that are specific to individual schools or
neighborhoods or programs.
SunshinePPS is not open to the general public just yet. It is being
alpha-tested with a group of volunteers.
If you are interested in getting in early and contributing during this
phase, please send an email to
iwantsunshine@centertap.org
and we can get you started.
If any of these describe you, we would love to hear from you:
- I'd like to help explain some topic to others
(like, "What is an IEP?").
- I have data, documents, maps, etc, that would help inform the
PPS community.
- I have a piece of history to write about or a story to tell.
- I have experience with MediaWiki, the semantic web,
document ontologies, etc, etc.
- This sounds cool; I'd like to know how it is going.
- OMG, we need SunshinePPS right now! and I am willing
to do whatever I can to make this available to the community.
(FYI, the actual links to :Talk and :Wiki are SunshinePPS:Talk and SunshinePPS:Wiki.)
