Re: [okfn-discuss] OKFN France joins our global network

2012-11-22 Thread Pieter Colpaert
Houray! Looking forward to do some cross border projects once you guys are all set up! cordialement, Pieter Op 22-nov.-2012 19:36 schreef "Naomi Lillie" het volgende: > Hello OKFN France :-) Great to have you as part of the team - best wishes > for your first Meet-up! Naomi > > > On 22 Novembe

Re: [okfn-discuss] OKFN France joins our global network

2012-11-22 Thread Naomi Lillie
Hello OKFN France :-) Great to have you as part of the team - best wishes for your first Meet-up! Naomi On 22 November 2012 17:53, Kat Braybrooke wrote: > Bonjour all, > > I'm happy to announce the inclusion of our newest Local Group, OKFN > France, into the Open Knowledge Foundation's Local Co

[okfn-discuss] OKFN France joins our global network

2012-11-22 Thread Kat Braybrooke
Bonjour all, I'm happy to announce the inclusion of our newest Local Group, OKFN France, into the Open Knowledge Foundation's Local Communities network! Many congratulations to its founders Samuel Goëta, Primavera De Filippi, Peter T Schiøler, Kat Borlongan, and Pierre Chrzanowski. France current

Re: [okfn-discuss] [project proposal] OpenTest

2012-11-22 Thread Mr. Puneet Kishor
Sebastian, Jonathan makes a very good point. I believe NC and ND licenses have their use, as do hundreds of thousands of community members, but I also believe that there are more liberal options that are more in the spirit of "open" as defined by the Open Definition. As I mentioned to you in

Re: [okfn-discuss] Renormalizing copyright terms

2012-11-22 Thread Rufus Pollock
On 20 November 2012 20:33, Samuel Klein wrote: > David W. and I were discussing copyright terms today, and the importance of > having an ongoing discussion about optimal term length and how to get there > from here. > > Most people agree the current (c) term is too long. There are obvious moral >

Re: [okfn-discuss] [project proposal] OpenTest

2012-11-22 Thread Jonathan Gray
Unfortunately NC licenses are beyond the scope of the Open Knowledge Foundation, which is focused on material which is open as in the Open Definition [1]. So we wouldn't be able to offer any support for the project if it was licensed under CC-BY-SA-NC! All the best, Jonathan [1] http://opendefin

Re: [okfn-discuss] [project proposal] OpenTest

2012-11-22 Thread Sebastian Beca
Hi Rufus, Thanks for taking the time to look through it! =) Answering your questions: 1. The project considers both a Question/Test Editor (composer) as well as the database of questions. 2. Up to this point I'm considering CC-BY-SA-NC for the site and editing tools that will become available o

Re: [okfn-discuss] [project proposal] OpenTest

2012-11-22 Thread Puneet Kishor
I feel compelled to respond to the following assertion with a request for a slight but important modification -- On Nov 22, 2012, at 4:36 AM, Rufus Pollock wrote: > (note that not all CC > licenses are open While CC NC and ND licenses may indeed not conform to the Open Definition, but exist

Re: [okfn-discuss] [project proposal] OpenTest

2012-11-22 Thread Rufus Pollock
Hi Sebastien, Thank-you very much for sending through the proposal. My understanding is that you aren't so much building a quiz builder as an open *database* of questions (perhaps in some structured format?). Is that correct? Also, in terms of licensing I assume you would be *openly* licensing th