On 9/24/13 10:13 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 24 September 2013 14:06, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm now working for the National Library of Australia and we offer free, at
home, access to JSTOR and MANY other restricted access databases to any
Australian, if they get a free library
Hello,
This is reminder that the Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be
hosting an IRC office hour from 1700 to 1800UTC later today on
#wikimedia-office (FreeNode). Please see below for the event details.
Thanks
Runa
=== Event Details ===
What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour
When:
I disagree that this is simply political.
It is very much a culture of ownership -- and a corporate one at that --
being instituted earlier to American kids.
If you remember, it was exactly this problem that inspired Lawrence Lessig
to start Creative Commons in the first place. He observed that
Sometimes I see Wikimedians mention Google Summer of Code when they want
to find someone to work on a code project. (Example: [0]) This makes
sense sometimes. If you think your idea might be a good project for a
student -- or you want help to make it that -- please do put it on the
possible
Hi, just a heads up about http://fosdem.org - Brussels 1 2 Feb 2014.
One of the biggest and coolest grassroots open source events in the
World - and the main one in Europe.
European orgs and individuals loving software freedom: Wikimedia wants
to have a stand. Let's do something cool! Get
It has something to do with countering falsehoods and educating folks about
the full range of content rights.
Their 2nd grade materials state:
Property comes in many forms: when we buy a book, we own that book. It’s
our property, but we don’t own the right to reproduce that book and then
sell it
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
I'd be OK if they simply gave some space in the training materials to talk
about public domain, free licenses and fair use. That's not likely to
happen given who's in control of those lesson plans.
You're still just
The California school system is the back yard (actually front yard) of both
Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons.
From the message on the web site, the WMF is a nonprofit charitable
organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and
distribution of free, multilingual,
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
You are right, that the lack of a national US chapter holds us back.
The obvious solution is to create a new group: Committee of Wikipedian
Parents Interested in Education, aka COWPIE
I feel like I'm obligated to make
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:42 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/mpaa-school-propaganda/
[...]
I suggest we see if WMF commenting, possibly in a blog post or
similar, would help avert such anti-sharing foolishness
I doubt it would avert it,
On 25 September 2013 19:33, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
It has something to do with countering falsehoods and educating folks about
the full range of content rights.
Their 2nd grade materials state:
Property comes in many forms: when we buy a book, we own that book. It’s
our
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