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Victor Shamanovsky | 17 May 2013 18:48
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Re: Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech

Hi Aaron,
I appreciate your comments and feedback. Not letting anything steal your peace is a simple yet life changing concept. 

I don't believe in a notion/narrative of "respect". 

It is possible to take offense to everything, every element in this life. Fire hydrants are there to break your knee caps, pigeons, rain, wind, sunshine are there to ruin your day...   

I am that I am and my disclaimer makes sense for reasons that are known to me and may not be known to those who speak out against it. 

As you read through 
And other topics that descend and ascend from it, I would be curious about what interesting and surprising things you may find. Please feel free to share with me.

Here are some additional food for processing:

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle 

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ~ Marcus Aurelius

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. ~ Sartre

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas 

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. ~ Confucius 

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ~ Henri Bergson

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.  ~ Seneca 

Trust one who has tried. ~ Virgil

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. ~ Machiavelli

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ~ Plato - (Standing on the shoulders of the giants that came before us)

They can conquer who believe they can. ~ Virgil 

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.  ~ Seneca

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.  ~ Seneca

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ~ Cicero

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. ~ Aristotle

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. ~ Saint Augustine

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. ~ Epicurus

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. ~ Aristotle

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. ~ Cicero

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. ~ William James

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. ~ Epictetus

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato

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On May 17, 2013, at 9:57, Aaron Wolf <wolftune <at> gmail.com> wrote:

Victor,

I'm replying privately because I don't believe this should be hashed out on the public discussion.

Please accept my claim that I am not personally upset about anything. It is hard to interpret things from pure text.

I suggested something you could do to be more respectful to people on the list (edit out your disclaimer just from list e-mails, without removing it otherwise). I do not take personal offense, as there is nothing personal going on here, but your reply was unambiguously condescending.

If someone suggests you do something differently and your reply is "try yoga." It essentially means: "I can do as I wish, I reject your complaint, if you have a problem with anything, it is your fault; I suggest you learn about something you surely don't know about because you must be an ignorant, uneducated person or at least someone with personal problems for you to be upset enough to object about this."

Your reply was condescending because it made all sorts of assumptions about the person you were interacting with and took zero responsibility for your side of the interaction.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't intend to be condescending, being that way wasn't your goal, it was just careless or perhaps even well-intentioned. But it wasn't constructive and you will do well to heed my advice and accept it constructively.

Again, I personally am not upset. But I'm calling you out because this form of communication is destructive to healthy communities. If you need further clarification or want to have a constructive dialog, I'm willing to help.

Please also give me the benefit of the doubt. Just because this is a little lengthy does not indicate to you my emotions or other opinions. Assuming otherwise is the primary cause of weird online conflicts and rudeness in general. I'm trying to help address a situation where others in the community feel you have been inappropriate and you have not taken proactive steps to address the situation.

Respectfully,
Aaron

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Hi Aaron,
"Don't let anything steal your peace". I learned that from my yoga teachers. Try yoga.

Thanks, http://www.last.fm/music/GIGGA

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Victor, you could easily remove your disclaimer from e-mails you send to this list (the disclaimer makes no sense for these public postings anyway).

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Thank you for your advise :)

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Re: Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech

Hi Aaron,
"Don't let anything steal your peace". I learned that from my yoga teachers. Try yoga.

Thanks, http://www.last.fm/music/GIGGA

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Thank you for your advise :)

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Re: Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech

Thank you for your advise :)

Thanks, http://www.last.fm/music/GIGGA

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Re: Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech

Hi Aaron, et.al.,
I get a lot of email and a solution like boxbe assists me with processing all the email. I periodically check the special folder and respond to messages that are incorrectly flagged by boxbe. Think of it like a folder that resides between spam and inbox.
Thank you. 

As for disclaimer, it stays and I consider it effective. 

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Someone mentioned earlier that Victor appears to have some weird block on his e-mail and might not even be seeing our messages (he seems to not respond), and he seems instead to treat this list as one-directional. Someone who bothered to sign up for his G+ thing should ask him if he's seeing the messages or understands that people have these issues with his posts.

It seems like there's some communication failure here. It's hard to believe that Victor is that oblivious or actively ignoring people's replies.

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Just so you know the person that mentioned it before isn't alone:
I also find that disclaimer to be annoying and counterproductive.
(It's of course irrelevant to this list but also probably ineffective
in general. http://www.economist.com/node/18529895
http://dltj.org/article/pointless-e-mail-disclaimers/ )

I would personally appreciate it if you dropped the disclaimer.

Thanks!

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Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech

Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech

Facebook’s “Like” feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the U.S. Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court.

“Any suggestion that such communication has less than full constitutional protection would result in chilling the very valued means for communication the Internet has made possible,” Aaron Panner, Facebook Inc. (FB)’s lawyer, told a three-judge panel today in Richmond, Virginia.

Facebook is seeking to reverse a lower-court ruling, which came in a retaliation lawsuit brought by six people fired from the Hampton, Virginia, sheriff’s department, that a Facebook “Like” isn’t First Amendment speech.

The case involves Danny Carter, a former Hampton jailer, who claims he was fired after he posted a picture of his boss’s opponent in the sheriff’s race on his Facebook page, along with a link to the contender’s website.

The post, made almost four years ago because Carter clicked the “Like” button on the “Jim Adams for Hampton Sheriff” Facebook page, was the subject of arguments today over how to view one-click, online endorsements of a person, idea or product.

‘Liked Something’

“Carter clicked the Like because he liked something,” U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanie Thacker said to a lawyer for Hampton Sheriff B.J. Roberts during the 40 minute hearing. “How is that any different than perhaps putting a sign in the yard saying ‘I Like Ike’?” she asked.

Thacker’s question backed Facebook’s contention in legal briefs that hitting the ‘Like” button on a candidate’s website or Facebook account is no different from a yard sign, which were ruled protected speech by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1994.

The Menlo Park, California-based company was given three minutes of argument time today and received no questions from the judges.

Carter, 40, joined by five others, sued Roberts when they were fired after the sheriff won re-election in 2009. They claim Roberts retaliated against them for supporting Adams, violating their rights to political affiliation and to speak as citizens on issues of public concern.

U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk, Virginia, on April 24, 2012, dismissed the lawsuit, rejecting the plaintiffs’ First Amendment claims.

‘Substantive Statement’

He ruled that simply “liking” a Facebook page didn’t amount to “a substantive statement” that warrants constitutional protection.

In his decision, Jackson said two federal court decisions in 2011 that held constitutional protections extended to Facebook involved actual statements posted on a user’s page.

“The court will not attempt to infer the actual content of Carter’s posts from one click of a button on Adams’s Facebook page,” Jackson, appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton, wrote in his decision. “For the court to assume that the plaintiffs made some specific statement without evidence of such statements is improper.”

Jackson’s ruling was criticized by constitutional lawyers who said he ignored the fact that other protected speech on the Internet, such as uploading a video or donating money to a campaign, are done with one click of a button.

“You are expressing the relevance of a message and that’s good enough,” Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, said in an interview.

Performance Issues

Roberts said in a deposition that he doesn’t use Facebook, and found out about Carter’s online support for Adams from someone else. He contends Carter and the other employees weren’t fired for their opposing him. Rather, they were let go for performance or other reasons, he said.

Jeff Rosen, a lawyer for Roberts, argued that “liking” a Facebook page means many things and was too obscure an act to warrant protection. People may “like” Target’s page to get a coupon or because they’re curious about something that can only be seen by hitting the feature, he said.

“It’s like opening a door into a room,” Rosen, of Pender & Coward PC in Virginia Beach, Virginia, said. “You can’t see what’s in there until you click on the button. That’s not speech.”

Billion Clicks

“Facebook has 3 billion ‘like’ clicks a day,” he said. “Is each one of those speech? I don’t think so.”

Rosen said one of the plaintiffs in the case had liked Adams’s page accidentally, and asked how that could be considered protected speech.

“That’s the problem with Facebook,” he said. “You don’t know what your actions will do or the consequences they will have.”

James Shoemaker, a lawyer for the fired employees, countered that an e-mail or note inadvertently sent to the wrong person about a political candidate would still be protected speech.

The case is Bland v. Roberts, 12-1671, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Richmond).

To contact the reporter on this story: Tom Schoenberg in federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, at tschoenberg <at> bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha <at> bloomberg.net.

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+100% for transparency.

Everything is trackable at the ISP level and so on and has been for a long time. 

I am not worried about our law enforcement tracking me and communicate with a full acknowledgement that everything I produce is tracked and backed up and available for data mining. 
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Now with built-in backdoors!  And a new, innovative, on-demand law enforcement access channel*!  All this and more, for only the price of your browsing and search history, location data, personal contacts, emails, SMS messages, phone call metadata, monthly power usage, medical history... (shall I go on?)


* Yes, yes: I know Google has been more resistant AND transparent vis-a-vis law enforcement requests than most large information firms - but they're still quite succeptible to being browbeaten with NSA letters. 

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But it's so EASY. Frictionless sharing!!! Ubiquity!!!


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Note that with this release, Hangouts (Replaces Talk) is no longer interoperable with XMPP. I have opted not to weigh in on this conversation before, and Victor, I know you have opted to pretend the concerns aren't legitimate, but actively removing open standards in favor of more siloed social networks really seems to me like a move inconsistent with free culture.

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During google I/O
"Operating systems don't matter, people matter"

Yep!

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Re: FOSsil Bank Update (12 May 2013)

Lem, 1964: "This mode of emergence of technological practice has not disappeared altogether since the cultural significance of every great technology reaches much further than just the lifetime of each individual generation - which is why it's future-oriented consequences of a systemic, habitual, and ethical kind, as well as the very direction in which it is pushing humanity, not only are not a subject of anyone's conscious intention but also effectively defy the recognition of the existence of such significance or the definition of its nature."

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I'm afraid I don't have a page explaining #FundFreeCulture, but basically it's a Twitter hashtag for any free/libre/open projects that have a commercial element. For example, if you can buy a book that is under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, it would qualify - as would a computer program under the GNU General Public License or the donation page of an artist whose creations come under the Free Art License.

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I am confused. Pay people and foundations to do free stuff?
Can you please point me to a wiki page where the premise of this is explained to a lay person like myself.

Thanks, http://www.last.fm/music/GIGGA

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Another few weeks, another FOSsil Bank Update. As always, please get in touch if you've found any libre or shareable content and I'll chuck it on the wiki.

#FundFreeCulture

Chip in a few dollars a month to support The League of Moveable Type. (All fonts under the SIL OFL)

It’s not funding, but it’s another way that you can contribute: playtest the tabletop RPG Five by Five, now in its third edition. (CC BY-SA)

The Software Freedom Conservancy is running a fundraising campaign to develop an open source non-profit accounting software. ($10,224/$75,000)

The Green Meme online organising handbook completed its funding. (CC BY; $3,976/$2,200)

t.b.d. is a TV miniseries about twenty-somethings in a conflicted Midwest town. (CC BY-SA; 6 days left; $166/$5,000)

The Lyrical Truth was a project to create a dark musical about domestic violence and drug abuse. Unfortunately, it didn't fund. (CC BY-SA; $224/$15,000)

Geary is an open source email client. Unfortunately it didn’t make its goal. ($50,860 of $100,000)

Monster Tome is a project to create 20 public domain artworks of unusual monsters suggested by the backers. Unfortunately, it didn’t make its goal ($1,060 of $4,300)

The OpenShot Video Editor shot through its goal. ($45,028 of $20,000)

The Public Domain Review was saved! ($22,070 of $20,000)

Justin, the creator of the free culture boardgame To the Barricades, is asking for support to help him take art classes – and will create art in exchange. (free culture or free software licences of your choosing)

Community

Earn $30 by writing an adventure for the libre tabletop RPG Critical!: Go Westerly.

Two Google groups have popped up: The Free Culture Foundation and CC BY-SA

Libre Works

The boardgame To the Barricades now has a playtest version available. (CC BY-SA)

RPG retroclone Swords & Wizardry has an SRD provided by the same people behind the Pathfinder SRD. (OGL)

The Open Knowledge Foundation has put together The Open Book, a crowdsourced publication that introduces the global open movement. (CC BY)

The Pathfinder SRD is a massive undertaking that warrants its own section. (OGL)

The Digital Public Library launched last month. (CC BY)

Jeff Preston is an artist who created the 108 Terrible Character Portraits. (CC BY)

Envisioning Technology is a futurist studio. (CC BY-SA)

Open the Future is a futurism blog. (CC BY-SA)

vessel.cc is a shifting art installation. It was available for download but that feature has been removed. (CC BY-SA)

One Shot is a tabletop RPG of sacrifice and vengeance. (CC BY-SA)

Interactivities Ink has a bevy of games you can download. (CC BY-SA)

The Italian Constitutional Court is experimenting with open data. (CC BY-SA)

Super Repo is another game from Teapot Dome Games, this one about people with superpowers who work mundane jobs. (CC BY)

I was sure I already had a page for Awen, but I couldn’t find it. It’s a charming fantasy game. (Public domain)

The Software Freedom Conservancy’s site is libre (CC BY-SA) http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:software-freedom-conservancy

The website for the Midgard RPG went down, but because it’s under a libre licence we can preserve it. (CC BY-SA)

Elevation of Privilege is an original deck of cards and a game to play with those cards created by Microsoft. (CC BY)

Tenpenny Joke is no longer on Jamendo, but thanks to the Internet Archive we can still enjoy their music. (CC BY-SA)

The entirety of The Wealth of Commons is finally available online. (CC BY-SA) 

QuadSystem is an RPG created for a recent contest. (CC BY)

I went to some effort to list which Piecepack games are under which public copyright licence. (PD, GNU FDL, CC BY-NC-SA)

Non-free Shareable Works

BrickQuest is fantasy boardgaming in an ABS (Lego) universe. (CC BY-NC-SA)

Threshold is a tabletop RPG of tragic superheroes inspired by Otherkind. (CC BY-NC-SA)

Leviathans is a steampunk vehicle miniatures game. (CC BY-NC-SA)

Aetherverse is a sci-fi miniatures game. (CC BY-NC-SA) 



Enjoy!

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I am confused. Pay people and foundations to do free stuff?
Can you please point me to a wiki page where the premise of this is explained to a lay person like myself.

Thanks, http://www.last.fm/music/GIGGA

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Hi folks,

Another few weeks, another FOSsil Bank Update. As always, please get in touch if you've found any libre or shareable content and I'll chuck it on the wiki.

#FundFreeCulture

Chip in a few dollars a month to support The League of Moveable Type. (All fonts under the SIL OFL)

It’s not funding, but it’s another way that you can contribute: playtest the tabletop RPG Five by Five, now in its third edition. (CC BY-SA)

The Software Freedom Conservancy is running a fundraising campaign to develop an open source non-profit accounting software. ($10,224/$75,000)

The Green Meme online organising handbook completed its funding. (CC BY; $3,976/$2,200)

t.b.d. is a TV miniseries about twenty-somethings in a conflicted Midwest town. (CC BY-SA; 6 days left; $166/$5,000)

The Lyrical Truth was a project to create a dark musical about domestic violence and drug abuse. Unfortunately, it didn't fund. (CC BY-SA; $224/$15,000)

Geary is an open source email client. Unfortunately it didn’t make its goal. ($50,860 of $100,000)

Monster Tome is a project to create 20 public domain artworks of unusual monsters suggested by the backers. Unfortunately, it didn’t make its goal ($1,060 of $4,300)

The OpenShot Video Editor shot through its goal. ($45,028 of $20,000)

The Public Domain Review was saved! ($22,070 of $20,000)

Justin, the creator of the free culture boardgame To the Barricades, is asking for support to help him take art classes – and will create art in exchange. (free culture or free software licences of your choosing)

Community

Earn $30 by writing an adventure for the libre tabletop RPG Critical!: Go Westerly.

Two Google groups have popped up: The Free Culture Foundation and CC BY-SA

Libre Works

The boardgame To the Barricades now has a playtest version available. (CC BY-SA)

RPG retroclone Swords & Wizardry has an SRD provided by the same people behind the Pathfinder SRD. (OGL)

The Open Knowledge Foundation has put together The Open Book, a crowdsourced publication that introduces the global open movement. (CC BY)

The Pathfinder SRD is a massive undertaking that warrants its own section. (OGL)

The Digital Public Library launched last month. (CC BY)

Jeff Preston is an artist who created the 108 Terrible Character Portraits. (CC BY)

Envisioning Technology is a futurist studio. (CC BY-SA)

Open the Future is a futurism blog. (CC BY-SA)

vessel.cc is a shifting art installation. It was available for download but that feature has been removed. (CC BY-SA)

One Shot is a tabletop RPG of sacrifice and vengeance. (CC BY-SA)

Interactivities Ink has a bevy of games you can download. (CC BY-SA)

The Italian Constitutional Court is experimenting with open data. (CC BY-SA)

Super Repo is another game from Teapot Dome Games, this one about people with superpowers who work mundane jobs. (CC BY)

I was sure I already had a page for Awen, but I couldn’t find it. It’s a charming fantasy game. (Public domain)

The Software Freedom Conservancy’s site is libre (CC BY-SA) http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:software-freedom-conservancy

The website for the Midgard RPG went down, but because it’s under a libre licence we can preserve it. (CC BY-SA)

Elevation of Privilege is an original deck of cards and a game to play with those cards created by Microsoft. (CC BY)

Tenpenny Joke is no longer on Jamendo, but thanks to the Internet Archive we can still enjoy their music. (CC BY-SA)

The entirety of The Wealth of Commons is finally available online. (CC BY-SA) 

QuadSystem is an RPG created for a recent contest. (CC BY)

I went to some effort to list which Piecepack games are under which public copyright licence. (PD, GNU FDL, CC BY-NC-SA)

Non-free Shareable Works

BrickQuest is fantasy boardgaming in an ABS (Lego) universe. (CC BY-NC-SA)

Threshold is a tabletop RPG of tragic superheroes inspired by Otherkind. (CC BY-NC-SA)

Leviathans is a steampunk vehicle miniatures game. (CC BY-NC-SA)

Aetherverse is a sci-fi miniatures game. (CC BY-NC-SA) 



Enjoy!

Chris Sakkas
Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and Twitter feed.
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FOSsil Bank Update (12 May 2013)

Hi folks,

Another few weeks, another FOSsil Bank Update. As always, please get in touch if you've found any libre or shareable content and I'll chuck it on the wiki.

#FundFreeCulture

Chip in a few dollars a month to support The League of Moveable Type. (All fonts under the SIL OFL)

It’s not funding, but it’s another way that you can contribute: playtest the tabletop RPG Five by Five, now in its third edition. (CC BY-SA)

The Software Freedom Conservancy is running a fundraising campaign to develop an open source non-profit accounting software. ($10,224/$75,000)

The Green Meme online organising handbook completed its funding. (CC BY; $3,976/$2,200)

t.b.d. is a TV miniseries about twenty-somethings in a conflicted Midwest town. (CC BY-SA; 6 days left; $166/$5,000)

The Lyrical Truth was a project to create a dark musical about domestic violence and drug abuse. Unfortunately, it didn't fund. (CC BY-SA; $224/$15,000)

Geary is an open source email client. Unfortunately it didn’t make its goal. ($50,860 of $100,000)

Monster Tome is a project to create 20 public domain artworks of unusual monsters suggested by the backers. Unfortunately, it didn’t make its goal ($1,060 of $4,300)

The OpenShot Video Editor shot through its goal. ($45,028 of $20,000)

The Public Domain Review was saved! ($22,070 of $20,000)

Justin, the creator of the free culture boardgame To the Barricades, is asking for support to help him take art classes – and will create art in exchange. (free culture or free software licences of your choosing)

Community

Earn $30 by writing an adventure for the libre tabletop RPG Critical!: Go Westerly.

Two Google groups have popped up: The Free Culture Foundation and CC BY-SA

Libre Works

The boardgame To the Barricades now has a playtest version available. (CC BY-SA)

RPG retroclone Swords & Wizardry has an SRD provided by the same people behind the Pathfinder SRD. (OGL)

The Open Knowledge Foundation has put together The Open Book, a crowdsourced publication that introduces the global open movement. (CC BY)

The Pathfinder SRD is a massive undertaking that warrants its own section. (OGL)

The Digital Public Library launched last month. (CC BY)

Jeff Preston is an artist who created the 108 Terrible Character Portraits. (CC BY)

Envisioning Technology is a futurist studio. (CC BY-SA)

Open the Future is a futurism blog. (CC BY-SA)

vessel.cc is a shifting art installation. It was available for download but that feature has been removed. (CC BY-SA)

One Shot is a tabletop RPG of sacrifice and vengeance. (CC BY-SA)

Interactivities Ink has a bevy of games you can download. (CC BY-SA)

The Italian Constitutional Court is experimenting with open data. (CC BY-SA)

Super Repo is another game from Teapot Dome Games, this one about people with superpowers who work mundane jobs. (CC BY)

I was sure I already had a page for Awen, but I couldn’t find it. It’s a charming fantasy game. (Public domain)

The Software Freedom Conservancy’s site is libre (CC BY-SA) http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:software-freedom-conservancy

The website for the Midgard RPG went down, but because it’s under a libre licence we can preserve it. (CC BY-SA)

Elevation of Privilege is an original deck of cards and a game to play with those cards created by Microsoft. (CC BY)

Tenpenny Joke is no longer on Jamendo, but thanks to the Internet Archive we can still enjoy their music. (CC BY-SA)

The entirety of The Wealth of Commons is finally available online. (CC BY-SA) 

QuadSystem is an RPG created for a recent contest. (CC BY)

I went to some effort to list which Piecepack games are under which public copyright licence. (PD, GNU FDL, CC BY-NC-SA)

Non-free Shareable Works

BrickQuest is fantasy boardgaming in an ABS (Lego) universe. (CC BY-NC-SA)

Threshold is a tabletop RPG of tragic superheroes inspired by Otherkind. (CC BY-NC-SA)

Leviathans is a steampunk vehicle miniatures game. (CC BY-NC-SA)

Aetherverse is a sci-fi miniatures game. (CC BY-NC-SA) 



Enjoy!

Chris Sakkas
Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and Twitter feed.
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