Ahoy, On Thursday 13 July 2006 15:43, MJ Ray wrote: > I thank you for taking it on, but I question moving it to iCommons. > > The iCommons Objects are "to advance education for the benefit > of the public in the wider dissemination of non-commercial > sharing of scientific, creative and other intellectual works > by the general public." > > Non-commercial would exclude nearly all events and a lot of other > activities from past issues.
I have no idea how they expect that to sit properly with the groups they reach out to. Joi Ito, the chair of the iCommons board, told everyone at the final session of iSummit 06: go and *make* money, don't just look for grants and sponsors! Given the number of commercial groups involved with iCommons I really doubt they're going to start enforcing any non-commercial rule across the community. I suspect, based on the irc conversation we had this morning [1], that they will look at revising those objects. The newsletter should certainly be safe! Regards, Tom [1] http://wiki.icommons.org/index.php/ICCC_Meeting -- The task of critique is not to denounce the ideals, but to show their transformation into ideologies, and to challenge the ideology in the name of the betrayed ideal (Fromm – Beyond The Chains Of Illusion) _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss
