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There are a number of core problems that must be addressed before we can build and maintain a multilingual body of freely accessible knowledge, content for learning, and collaborative projects. A few are listed below, along with some ideas of how to start tackling them in the short term. |
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This is a page for open content projects that are underway. |
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== Examples == |
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== Formats and free licenses == |
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* Compatibility, definitions, and cross-identification. The free culture movement in contrast with specific definitions and subclasses. |
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* A clear definition of openness and content freedom that maximizes the |
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reusability and compatibility of content collections. There is no |
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substitute for being able to pull together educational materials from |
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dozens of compatibly-licensed collections to produce something new. |
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== Localization == |
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A hydra in more ways than one. |
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=== Internationalization === |
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Many content creators and providers are oblivious to best practices and even the need for i18n in developing tools and content. |
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=== Translation === |
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Distributed translators. A model that allows |
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multilingual people to devote small amounts of time to parts of large |
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== Announcing and finding free materials == |
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[[World digital library notes|World digital library]]; OER organization; open source software organization; coordination of searches by license, topic, and format; Wikimedia searching; media storing on Archive.org / Ourmedia / Wikimedia / Flickr / Youtube / Myspace... |
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== Creator networks == |
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* Global projects |
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* university- and community-sponsored mentoring networks. |
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* Local hubs of creation, networked with but not dependent on one another; with implied problems of localization, communication, & synchronization. |
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* Microgrants for grassroots creators; there are a few places to get these now, including Global Voices for local cultural news and bridge blogging; various OS Foundations and their projects |
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=== Academia === |
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Defined in terms of the freedom of the work it produces; still often closed in practice. |
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=== Youth === |
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Some of the most active sharers and creators on the planet; often use non-free licenses and projects for lack of interest or awareness that there is a difference. Rarely collaborate on educational materials unless specifically involved in projects that teach them they have something to teach. |
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* A framework of creative, publishing, and editing tools that are needed to allow large-scale collaboration. As a small instance, we still lack an open-source program for collaborative drawing, or an open toolchain for the spectrum of localization. |
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[[Category:Content]] |
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Revision as of 13:25, 14 February 2007
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| Content ideas | Content projects |
| Hardware ideas | Hardware projects |
| Software ideas | Software projects |
This is a page for open content projects that are underway.