I'm pleased to share with everyone that I've managed to get myself in as a
speaker in the Open Source Schools unconference in Nottingham next Monday
20th July. Although it's primarily focused on open source software, they have
agreed to extend it to talking about open source content as well.
If the NPG were a governmenet agency with a remit to maximise the commercial
value of its information then I could understand that it would claim the
commercial exemption from FOI.
But their remit is to make their collection available to the Public and they
object to us helping them do that?
This story was in the news today. Seems education ain't wot is used
to be... and neither is charity.
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Charity rules now mean private schools have to prove public benefit
Independent schools in England are protesting about too narrow
rules for charitable status - as two out of five
That's worth a few wikipediholism points, I'm sure. Maybe you could
get a greasemonkey script to convert wikimarkup on non-wiki sites to
appropriate formatting. That'd be cool.
--- On Sun, 12/7/09, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote:
From: Peter Coombe
Great stuff! Take a stack of Wikipedia for Schools CDs (or DVDs,
whatever it's on these days) to hand out. I guess you need to spend
most of the time emphasising how to use Wikipedia properly and that,
if you do use it properly, it is a good research tool so shouldn't be
banned.
2009/7/14 Andrew
Heh, I never really liked automatic e-mail signatures before Wikipedia. But
now I use one just to stop me signing off messages with four tildes :-)
Pete / the wub
2009/7/14 sineWAVE sinew...@silentflame.com
That's worth a few wikipediholism points, I'm sure. Maybe you could
get a
2009/7/14 Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com:
This story was in the news today. Seems education ain't wot is used
to be... and neither is charity.
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Charity rules now mean private schools have to prove public benefit
That's hardly news, the rules changed a while back and the private
Wikinews has its article up for review. It should be published and in Google
News pretty much as-is.
http://tinyurl.com/WN-NPG
It is quote long and mindful of the discussion over the weekend.
Brian.
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