Free content presentation
I made an impromptu presentation on free content at BarCampSydney3 - here are a few notes. --Chriswaterguy (talk) 09:22, 9 April 2008 (PDT)
Do you know your content isn't free? Berne convention means it's copyright by default. And people don't know.
Open licenses - what makes a free license. CC example
APDS - purpose, how it was made.
Problems: US fed sites with illegitimate copyright notices.
Why I made APDS, how we use it on Appropedia.
Free content to save the world - the experience of:
- Home biogas system (Philippine BioDigesters)
- Practical Action Technical Briefs - original content used with attribution, e.g. in the rainwater page
- GEM mosquito control
Linux documentation is very poor - wikis should be solving this. But 1 there's no clear, single Linux wiki. Most of the huge amount of content generated daily is not under an open license. If I've spent hours figuring out a problem - I won't spend more time chasing permissions.
What to do?
- Add a CC mark
- Ask your forum to make all posts free (e.g. CC-by, CC-by-sa or PD)
