On Jul 7, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Christopher Phillips wrote:
I am new to the list and was directed here by Richard Miller of
the More Good Foundation in response to an email that I sent him
yesterday, I pass it on for comment. Richard, I'm sure that the
group would love to hear your response and ideas in your reply to
my original email...
Here is what I originally wrote to Christopher about the idea of a
Creative Commons repository for Church content:
I think a repository of Creative Commons-licensed Church material
would be awesome. An appropriate CC License would allow broad use
of the materials while protecting them from commercial interests or
any loss of ownership.
If the Church allows this sort of use, I'll be happy to help setup
the repository. In fact the webmaster for Donny.com has a side
project called ldsvault.com that might be the right place for
this. He hasn't finished the site but I believe he envisions a
site full of free resources for teachers, members, etc.
Have you heard of LDSOSS.org? It's the "LDS Open Source Software"
group (unofficial). It's mostly programmers talking about how open
source software can help the Church, but it might be a good place
to bring up the Creative Commons idea, which is essentially about
open source content. If you don't bring it up there I think I
will. =)
The Church recently hired Tom Welch as the head of the Open Source
initiative, so I'll bet he'd be interested in hearing about this
too. He frequents the LDSOSS list.
I think this is a good idea worth pursuing.
Richard
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