Talk:Open Culture
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I think this should be cleaned up a bit.
Yes, that is true, the user Jclee has allready done a great job in correcting my terrible grammar.Bobbyandck
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Not an official user, but I have a few areas that you can draw inspiration from, or use as a reference:Democratizing Innovation, The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Along with ESR's other OSS writings), and The Pro-Am Movement.
It may be a good idea to add historic content and context to the book as well. That would require delving into things such as the foundation of the FSF and Wikimedia. Court battles should be included within this section, such as Eldred vs. Ashcroft. And the major players would need to be covered: Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, Larry Lessig, The founders of Wikimedia & Creative Commons (I am too much an OSS guy to know), etc, etc.
Another good source of content may be internet radio stations that are run completely by volunteers. Some include "shows". Those that I have seen usually spring up around MMORPGs, but they are open collaborative efforts nonetheless. Examples include Eve Radio and Radio Free Zion.
-- Zak Jensen (zak.jensen AT gmail.com)
great ideas, I'll go over them a bit more in detail a bit later, for the moment I am really busy here at university. why don't you become a registered user and contribute a bit ? but thank you very much for your comments Bobbyandck 18:29, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Greetings
Hi there! This looks like a worthy project; I hope I get a chance to help out. I've passed word about this around to a few others; maybe they'll contribute too. Wanted to throw out a few ideas for sources:
- Lessig's Free Culture is first in the canon -- probably other of his works, too
- Blogs: Once this project has a bit of a framework, maybe it could get some blog exposure to draw in new contributors? Additionally, blogs could be considered part of the source material of this book: they are sort of the "newspapers" of this subject.
- There are at least a few academics worldwide who either work in or study / have studied this subject. Soliciting their expertise could be an important way to get useful criticisms / contributions / editing. -- Tetraminoe 09:50, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
1) you're right about Lessig, I have to read the document through, havn't yet had the time, hope to do so this summer. 2) you're right, blogs are definitely part of the open culture movement, great idea. 3) Do you think that one could allready contact them ? people like Mr. Lessig would probably only accept to help if there is allready more content ? Thank's for your help. Bobbyandck 11:02, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
