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Twitter Investor Meets With Open Source Textbook Startup
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| One of the VCs behind Twitter had early preliminary discussions this week in
| a meeting with the open-source textbook startup Flat World Knowledge,
| co-founder and chief marketing officer Eric Frank told wired.com.
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http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/11/twitter-investo.html
Recent:
The open source textbook conundrum
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| Flat World Knowledge of Nyack, New York says it has funding for a roll-out of
| its open source college textbooks next year, adding a former chair of Simon &
| Schuster to its advisory board.
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| Flat World will offer its texts free online, and distribute them at low cost
| on other formats. They promise to build social learning networks where
| students learn from one another.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3012
Commoner Letter #1: Eben Moglen
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| Last year we started a new campaign tradition — the Commoner Letter series.
| As I’ve said before, and will definitely say again, the campaign is about
| building support — rallying our community members around the importance of
| supporting Creative Commons and the openness our tools help enable. Over the
| next three months, five prominent members of the CC community will share with
| the world why they support CC. If you’re interested in CC and issues of
| openness and access, this list is for you.
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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/10143
Eben Moglen on open source's future
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| What do you see as the biggest danger to open-source software today? On the
| one hand, there's still a locus of resistance. Microsoft still maintains
| strongly the view that its business model, which depends upon concealing
| source code from users, is a viable and important and indeed necessary model.
| And so as long as a company that sells a billion dollars a week in software
| is in that sense fundamentally still trying to [fight] the free way of doing
| things, Microsoft remains a very dangerous party.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/012208-eben-moglen-on-open-sources.html
Open Source: The Textbooks of the Future
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| In America, where I live, and across much of the northern hemisphere, kids
| are heading back to school. I’m no longer in school, but everyone in my
| family save for me works in one. One of the biggest issues facing schools
| today is how to keep textbooks up to date in a cost effective manner, and
| make them more manageable and affordable for students. K-12 science
| textbooks, for example, published before August 24, 2006 likely talk about
| the 9 planets in our solar system. Except two years ago, the science world
| decided that there were just 8 planets.
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http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/12/open-source-the-textbooks-of-the-future/
http://tinyurl.com/3msp5e
Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm
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| A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student
| lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over.
| The answer? Make them open source -- and give them away.
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| Flat World Knowledge is the brainchild of two former textbook industry
| executives who learned from the inside about the wacky economy of textbooks.
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http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/open-source-tex.html
The World Wide Textbook
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| A new project aims to develop low-cost, open-source textbooks for use
| in the developing world
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| [...]
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| Each of the proposed open-source books has an editor-in-chief
| responsible for putting together a chapter outline and rough
| description, and ensuring that the text comes together in a
| cohesive manner.
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http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/dec2006/bs20061211_681192.htm
Open Shakespeare aims to free the Bard
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| The project was formed under the aegis of the Open Knowledge
| Foundation, whose stated mission is the promotion and development
| of "open knowledge."
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| "We have had quite a bit of contact with the Free Software Foundation
| and Creative Commons in one way or another," says project leader
| Rufus Pollock, who is a member of the Creative Commons UK team,
| "but we aren't working with either of them on anything specific
| at present."
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http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/19/1517207&from=rss
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