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Re: MIT, Elsevier Offer Free Content FromMoreThan 2,000 Journals

Hi Stephen On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 14:44 -0300, Stephen Downes wrote: WikiEducator does not own the word "free". A statement such as the one above must be qualified: "In order to be considered 'free' by WikiEducator, a work must be covered by a Free Culture License..." Otherwise, a claim is being made that extends beyond the bounds of WikiEducator, where WikiEducator's decision-making process no longer applies, and where there is not agreement on this issue. Absolutely! With apology -- I didn't edit the text from the free cultural works definition for the post. You're right -- WikiEducator has articulated is "meaning" of free through the Free Cultural Works definition, and as you say there are different interpretations. Cheers Wayne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator, go to: http://www.wikieducator.org To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

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Re: MIT, Elsevier Offer Free Content From More Than 2,000 Journals

and indeed, that when materials are used commercially (eg., sold) they are by definition *not* free.You might want to look up the word free in the dictionary.Warm regardsChris2008/5/31 Stephen Downes <stephen@xxxxxxxxx>: Hiya, > MIT's OCW materials use the NC restriction and therefore do not qualify as free content under the free cultural works definition. The access may be open -- but they are certainly not free materials :-) This is written as though it is a simple fait accompli. But there is a significant body of opinion (at least, to me) that says that materials may be 'free' and licensed as 'n on-commercial' -- and indeed, that when materials are used commercially (eg., sold) they are by definition *not* free. -- Stephen Wong Leo wrote: Dear Wayne , could you please explain to me more about these NC rules I am confused why MIT use it what is the difference ? Leo thank you 2008/4/9 mackiwg <WMackintosh@xxxxxxx>: A quick observation -- MIT's OCW materials use the NC restriction and therefore do not qualify as free content under the free cultural works definition. The access may be open -- but they are certainly not free materials :-) Visit the CC site to see which licenses are approved as free cultural works. Fortunately WE and the Wikimedia foundation projects have been smart enough to use free content licenses! Cheers Wayne On Mar 30, 5:51 am, James Neill <li...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > MIT, Elsevier Offer Free Content From More Than 2,000 Journalshttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/media/elsevier_announce/elsevier_... > > CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Mar. 7, 2008 - In a move to encourage open education, > MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Elsevier have agreed to make available > figures and text selections from any of Elsevier's more than 2,000 > journal titles for use on OCW. > > As a result of this landmark agreement, select Elsevier content can now > be included within the open access OCW course materials - to be freely > downloaded, used and shared under a Creative Commons license. The > Elsevier content includes up to three figures (including tables and > illustrations) per individual article (or ten per journal volume) and up > to 100 words from a single text extract (or 300 words from a series of > extracts). -- blog:http://leolaoshi.yo2.cn HELP项目https://groups.google.com/group/helpelephantsliveproject --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator, go to: http://www.wikieducator.org To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

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Re: Types of volunteers

Dear Wayne, I have been wikieducator for sometime. I have been editing other wikis for a long time but i was brought to Wikieducator by Nellie Muller. I just joined the Wikieducator workshop. The session was supposed to start on 26th. I guess i am pretty late, but can you guide me further at this point ? On May 29, 2:07 am, "Wayne Mackintosh" <wmackint...-GAVDuV57cUE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Peter -- > > I've done my homework now. Hope you accept late submissions :-) > > I've posted my responses on the talk page: > > http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator_talk:Quality_Assurance_and_R... > > Thanks for keeping us on task. > > Cheers > Wayne > > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 07:49 -0700, Peter wrote: > > Do we need people to indicate the type of volunteer they want to be? > > > I am involved with this WE QA initiative and we had a request for > > volunteers that was quickly and completely subscribed. And now we are > > two weeks into it, I have posted a couple of questions and none of the > > volunteers have engaged in discussion or added content. So maybe when > > we make a call for volunteers we ask for volunteers of a certain type. > > I will suggest the following; > > Contibutor - someone who is active in moving the project forward > > Reviewer - someone who watches and reads the project and occassionally > > adds suggestions, makes comments, etc... > > Approver - someone who has some credability in the projects subject > > area who endorses the project deliverables > > So now when we make a call for volunteers we can be more specific and > > people can indicate the type of volunteer. As an example with this QA > > project we could make the following call for volunteers; > > >http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_and_Review...

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Re: MIT, Elsevier Offer Free Content From More Than 2,000 Journals

Hiya, > MIT's OCW materials use the NC restriction and therefore do not qualify as free content under the free cultural works definition. The access may be open -- but they are certainly not free materials :-) This is written as though it is a simple fait accompli. But there is a significant body of opinion (at least, to me) that says that materials may be 'free' and licensed as 'n on-commercial' -- and indeed, that when materials are used commercially (eg., sold) they are by definition *not* free. -- Stephen Wong Leo wrote: Dear Wayne , could you please explain to me more about these NC rules I am confused why MIT use it what is the difference ? Leo thank you 2008/4/9 mackiwg <WMackintosh@xxxxxxx>: A quick observation -- MIT's OCW materials use the NC restriction and therefore do not qualify as free content under the free cultural works definition. The access may be open -- but they are certainly not free materials :-) Visit the CC site to see which licenses are approved as free cultural works. Fortunately WE and the Wikimedia foundation projects have been smart enough to use free content licenses! Cheers Wayne On Mar 30, 5:51 am, James Neill <li...-ao9nNjvW2TkybS5Ee8rs3A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > MIT, Elsevier Offer Free Content From More Than 2,000 Journalshttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/media/elsevier_announce/elsevier_... > > CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Mar. 7, 2008 - In a move to encourage open education, > MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Elsevier have agreed to make available > figures and text selections from any of Elsevier's more than 2,000 > journal titles for use on OCW. > > As a result of this landmark agreement, select Elsevier content can now > be included within the open access OCW course materials - to be freely > downloaded, used and shared under a Creative Commons license. The > Elsevier content includes up to three figures (including tables and > illustrations) per individual article (or ten per journal volume) and up > to 100 words from a single text extract (or 300 words from a series of > extracts). -- blog:http://leolaoshi.yo2.cn HELP项目https://groups.google.com/group/helpelephantsliveproject --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator, go to: http://www.wikieducator.org To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---