Kudos on a beautiful site! Begging to be combined with the many other collections of free or open materials online. I don't know of an obvious place to unify these efforts; there are certainly a hundred or so just dedicated to sharable educational works; another hundred dedicated to software packages and tools; a few dozen dedicated to sharable games or media; and that's just from the English-language internet [which is now the minority].
I don't have a specific suggestion, but would greatly like to see some of the owners of such collections start discussing a unified future; and would be happy to take part in such discussion. SJ On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Chris Sakkas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > For the last two years or so I've been cataloguing libre and shareable > content that I come across on my wiki, the FOSsil Bank > (http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/) > > It currently contains almost 500 shareable works, of which almost 300 are > libre (my definition of shareable work is basically: 'under CC BY-NC-ND or a > more liberal licence, or in the public domain' and my definition of libre is > basically: 'under an open knowledge, open source, free culture or free > software licence, or in the public domain'). I might be biased, but I think > it's a great little resource. > > But I'm also not sure what to do with it. I'm basically the only person who > contributes to it, and it's gotten to the size where I've added all the > libre content that I (so far) know or care about it. What I'm wondering is > whether you have any ideas of where we could take it from here: how to raise > its profile, how to build up a community around it, and so on. > > I think one of the first steps would be to set up a mailing list for people > who are interested in finding more libre and shareable works. I would like > the mailing list to use FLOSS, but I can't host it myself. Is there any > cloud-based FLOSS mailing list service I could use? > > Thanks in advance for your feedback, folks, > > Chris > > Chris Sakkas > Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and Twitter feed. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
