A final reminder that Open Everything London is tomorrow (6th November). Details are are at: http://blog.okfn.org/2008/10/30/open-everything-london-speakers-confirmed/ http://openeverything.wik.is/London Look forward to seeing people there! Jonathan
As announced earlier this month tomorrow we're running a workshop on "Finding and Re-using Open Scientific Resources". Just like last week's workshop on Public Information this should be both informal, interesting and fun. The workshop will focus on finding and re-using open scientific resources - including public domain data, open access journal articles, and open educational materials. Anyone can come along and details are as follows: wiki page: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenScience/Workshop when: Saturday 8th November 2008, 1100-1600 where: London Knowledge Lab 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS. (more info on wiki page) attendance: Free but good to sign up on the wiki page (or just email me) Look forward to seeing people tomorrow. Regards, Rufus
Hey Jonathan, Looks like your Where Does My Money Go? submission partly succeeded: http://www.showusabetterway.com/ 'Ideas where we will develop the idea further' http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/2008/07/where-does-my-2.html What will they do next, do you think? (And does the The Free Legal Web idea have anything to do with mySociety or the Free Our Bills campaign?) Best wishes, John. -- -- Appropriate Software Foundation http://appropriatesoftware.net
Yes, great news and thanks to everyone who voted for the proposal when it was on the polling site. I am not yet clear what 'develop further' entails but I imagine we will find out soon. Rufus On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:33 PM, John Bywater <john.bywater@...> wrote: > Hey Jonathan, > > Looks like your Where Does My Money Go? submission partly succeeded: > http://www.showusabetterway.com/ > > 'Ideas where we will develop the idea further' > http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/2008/07/where-does-my-2.html > > What will they do next, do you think? > > (And does the The Free Legal Web idea have anything to do with mySociety > or the Free Our Bills campaign?) > > Best wishes, > > John. > > -- > Appropriate Software Foundation > http://appropriatesoftware.net > >(Continue reading)
A reminder that our regular IRC meet up will take place tonight from 1900 *GMT* on the #okfn channel at oftc.net! You can connect via a standard irc client or using the mibbit web client available at: <http://ur1.ca/4fh> If anyone's got anything they'd like to discuss, propose or work on, please drop in! (Very) draft agenda at: <http://okfn.org/wiki/meetings/2008-11-12> Rufus
Hi all, I thought this could be of interest! J. -------- Original Message ------- The gnowledge.org <http://gnowledge.org> lab of Homi Bhabha Centre (HBCSE) launched a new community portal on 31st October 2008 to make concept maps of all areas of knowledge. We are beginning with establishing dependency relations between concepts and activities. Soon we will extend the site for TypeMap, PartMap, InteractionMap, ProcessMap etc. Soon, a version of SELF Platform will be made that will automatically create structure of courses based on dependency map. The site is waiting for community contributions and suggestions at http://www.gnowledge.org/. Could you please announce this to your out reach community. Announcing and linking to http://www.gnowledge.org <http://www.gnowledge.org/> will be appreciated. -- -- Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/
-------- Original Message ------- Dear Open Knowledge Foundation, Greetings from Boston Review! We thought you and your blog readers might be interested in an article in the new issue of Boston Review. Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and GNU developer, chastises One Laptop Per Child for backing away from its promise to run only free software in favor of a Microsoft-subsidized version of Windows. "Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco—in a world where only one company sells tobacco," he writes. "Even the OLPCs delivered with GNU/Linux will be easy to convert subsequently to Windows. It only requires a small card that is supposed to cost $7. (I expect Microsoft will hand these out to the kiddies like free samples of cigarettes.)" You can read the article here: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.6/stallman.php Please feel free to forward this piece along as you see fit. Thanks for your time and attention. Best, Katie Koch Editorial Assistant(Continue reading)
-------- Original Message ------- Hi! We wanted to bring your attention to the National Freedom of Information Coalition's blog on all things open government, which we recently moved to our newly designed web site: http://www.nfoic.org/issues We'd be forever appreciative if you could alert your readers to the blog. If you could link to it or add it to your blogroll, that would be even better. It's a daily compilation of all the news in the world of open government.... -- Charles N. Davis. Ph.D. Executive Director, National Freedom of Information Coalition Associate Professor, University of Missouri School of Journalism 179B Gannett Hall Columbia, MO 65211 (573) 882-5736 Join the FOI discussion! http://foiadvocate.blogspot.com/
"Not satisfied with controlling the world's largest source of book information, it wants to take over all the smaller ones as well. It's now demanding that every library that uses WorldCat give the copyright to all its catalog records to OCLC. It literally is asking libraries to put an OCLC copyright notice on every book record in their catalog. It wants to own every library." http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/oclcscam
The OCLC policy shift has really stirred up some issues. Rob Styles has written a good, well-researched article examining the policy changes: http://dynamicorange.com/2008/11/06/oclc-record-usage-copyright-contracts-and-the-law/ And there is also this ;) http://repohate.blogspot.com/2008/11/declaration-of-independance-of-metadata.html Ben On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 11:42 +0000, Rob Myers wrote: > "Not satisfied with controlling the world's largest source of book > information, it wants to take over all the smaller ones as well. It's > now demanding that every library that uses WorldCat give the copyright > to all its catalog records to OCLC. It literally is asking libraries > to put an OCLC copyright notice on every book record in their catalog. > It wants to own every library." > > http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/oclcscam > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > okfn-discuss@... > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
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