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)

• Appropedia:Make your content free
• Appropedia:Which free license should you use?
• Public Domain Search