FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear friends and colleagues, excuse the impersonal announcement, but my new book The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind has just been published. And since Yale University Press agreed to CC license it, you can read it for free or download it at http://thepublicdomain.org (Free books are the perfect holiday gift for a global financial meltdown) Warm regards, Jamie
Any thoughts about this? I haven't had a chance to look through it yet... J. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear all, The European Commission has published its report on the recent consultation on the review of the PSI Directive. The deadline for comments, suggestions and replies to the questionnaire closed on 31 July 2008. The purpose of this online consultation on the review of the PSI Directive was to gather information from as many sources as possible, including public sector content holders and commercial and non-commercial re-users (universities, NGOs) on their views on different aspects related to the implementation, impact and scope of the PSI Directive. See the report at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/pdfs/online_consultation/report_psi_online_consultaion_stakeholders.pdf; See the replies (A to Z) at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/online_consultation/review_Direct2008/stakeholders/index_en.htm. Best regards, Carmen(Continue reading)
We're a featured user on Identi.ca! J. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- You've been chosen as a featured user on Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/featured We feature users who are interesting, well-known, and/or active parts of the community. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at this address. -Evan
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Stasko <stasko@...> Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:22 PM Subject: [Infovis] Fellowships in data and visual analytics To: infovis@... Data Analysis and Visual Analytics Ph.D. Fellowships The Southeast Regional Visual Analytics Center (http://srvac.uncc.edu) - a partnership between Georgia Tech and UNC Charlotte - is accepting applications for four Data Analysis and Visual Analytics PhD Fellowships, two at UNC Charlotte and two at Georgia Tech. Both universities have significant research programs in these areas, in which fellowship holders will be active participants. The Fellowships provide 2.5 academic years of support with a stipend of $2300 per month; payment of tuition and fees; and a $1500 per year for three years travel allowance to attend relevant conferences. After the fellowship period, students will be supported as Graduate Research Assistants while finishing their Ph.D. Fellowship holders will have two summer internships at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory or other laboratories conducting relevant research. They will have the opportunity to spend a semester at their partner school, either UNC Charlotte or Georgia Tech, to be able to take courses not available at their home shcool and to interact with the many faculty and graduate students at their partner school. The fellowships are provided by a grant from the US Department of(Continue reading)
Biblios.net, "the world's largest database of freely-licensed library records", is now beta-testing: http://blog.okfn.org/2008/12/02/biblios-worlds-largest-database-of-open-bibliographic-data-goes-beta/ They are using Jordan's Open Data Commons - presumably PDDL? Hopefully they'll make the data available for download in bulk. (Also preferably without a restrictive click-wrap agreement!) Look forward to seeing where this goes. J.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@...> wrote: > Any thoughts about this? > > I haven't had a chance to look through it yet... It looks like this is the report on the consultation so I don't think there is a room for any more input (closed in July it seems). While this is, no doubt, important I don't think we're going to do much on it though I'd be interested to hear from anyone on the list who is more knows more about what is going on. I'd imagine you'd find some good information on both this and the review generally on the EPSIPlus website: http://www.epsiplus.net/ Regards, Rufus [snip]
Thanks Yishay! On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Yishay Mor <yishaym@...> wrote: > Workshop: Business and Sustainability Models Around Free and Open Source > Software > > 12 January 2009, 10:00 - 16:00 > Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN > > Web page and on-line registration: > www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2009-01-12/programme.xml > E-mail: info@... > Tel: 01865 283416 > > How can free and open source software (FOSS) contribute to a viable > sustainability model for software? How do people make money from > licensing their own work out under free and open source licences? This > OSS Watch workshop will focus on these questions and will be > particularly suitable for knowledge transfer professionals, project > managers, and principal investigators in UK higher and further education > institutions who plan to employ FOSS exploitation techniques to sustain > or monetize their code. > > The workshop will examine what sustainability models exist, what > licensing models they rely upon and who uses them. It will highlight > opportunities and risks inherent in current free and open source > software-based sustainability models and try to identify strategies that > are particularly suitable for use by the HE and FE community. > > At the end of the workshop the participants will:(Continue reading)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam@...> Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:56 PM Subject: [openaccess] Support Prof. Suber's recommendation to the Obama administration To: Open Access and Information for Development <openaccess@...> Friends: Here is some good news. The recommendation (Require open access to the results of non-classified research funded by taxpayers. Extend the exemplary policy now in place at the NIH to all federal agencies.) made by Prof. Peter Suber to the Obama administration that will be in place very soon is now in the top 25 among more than 600 recommendations received so far. If all the scientists and scholars caste their votes it can even move to the top 10. Please alert scientists, scholars and librarians you know to visit the site and vote in favour of Prof. Suber's recommendation. Remember open access would benefit researchers in the developing world immensely. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] === OA recommendation for Obama's CTO now in top 25 Today the proposal to require OA for publicly-funded research broke into the top 25 on Obama CTO, the unofficial web site collecting recommendations for the Obama administration. It now appears on the front page, where it should attract even more attention and votes. If you haven't yet voted or spread the word, please do. Thanks for your(Continue reading)
Dear All, After some last minute improvements and polishing up (big thank-you to Iain ...) Open Milton is officially launched today on Milton's 400th Birthday. Please feel free to forward this info to other people/lists who might find it of interest. Regards, Rufus ~ Open Milton Launched ~ The 9th of December 2008 is John Milton's 400th birthday. To celebrate this life-long advocate of liberty we've officially launched 'Open Milton' – an open set of Milton's works, together with ancillary information and tools, in a form designed for reuse. <http://www.openmilton.org/> ## More Info The Open Milton project has two main objectives: 1. Provide the works of John Milton, along with textual apparatus and tools all in an open form. 2. Deliver this material as a knowledge package that allows for easy deployment, redistribution and reuse.(Continue reading)
Late notice that our regular wednesday evening IRC meetup is on tonigh from 1800 *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! Rufus
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