Dear Tom, Excellent news! Let us know if you open source the remaining code. We'd love to do a blog post on this - as it would be a great example of an open service!
Best wishes and thanks for getting in touch, Jonathan On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Tom Morris<[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Jonathan, > Thanks for the interest. We have Open Sourced some of the code, specifically > the code used to import meta data via DOI (which can be found > here: http://github.com/ottbot/crossref/). > We would certainly consider Open Sourcing the remaining code in the future. > Kind Regards, > Tom Morris > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Dear Tom, >> >> Many thanks for your email! I've forwarded details to our discussion list. >> >> It looks like a really useful service. I've just signed up for an >> account and I shall certainly consider using it for disseminating my >> own academic work! >> >> I wonder how the source code for the service is licensed? Have you >> considered putting this under a Free/Open Source license? In this >> respect you might be interested in our Open Service Definition: >> >> http://opendefinition.org/ossd >> >> Warm regards, >> >> -- >> Jonathan Gray >> >> Community Coordinator >> The Open Knowledge Foundation >> http://www.okfn.org >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Tom Morris <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM >> Subject: Scholas >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Dear Jonathan, >> I came across your email via the OKFN web-site. >> Having looked at what the OKFN does, I thought you might be interested >> in a project I have been working called called Scholas >> (http://schol.as). >> The main aim of the service is to enable academics to upload and share >> files quickly and easily using short URL's. The user also has the >> option to license any work they share under a creative commons >> license (for more information about features please see >> http://schol.as/about-scholas/). >> Kind Regards, >> Tom Morris > > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
