Awesome, Neville! I'm glad that NotesHub is being used as a starting point for the discussion of Free Culture on campus.
If anybody else wants to get NH featured in their school's newspaper, here's a press release email I sent to the BU paper - just swap out my name for your own and set it to your school's paper!: ========================================================================================================== My name is Rich Jones - I graduated from Boston University in December 2009. Last month, a group of us in the experimental wing of Students for Free Culture movement whipped up a new project. It's called NotesHub, and the website is available at http://noteshub.org We're calling it the best study group ever. It's a place where students can share their notes and other course materials with each other! The goal is to give students an easy way to participate in the OpenCourseWare movement by sharing their notes and other course materials with each other. The knowledge contained within those notes is very valuable, and there's no reason why anybody shouldn't be able to use them for their own benefit! We want to live in a world where anybody can have access to any knowledge they want, and can feel free to share knowledge with others. That's why all uploads are available under the Creative Commons Attribution license, so that that anybody can download materials, change them, and share them with their friends. Currently, there are notes available from BU, Cornell, University of Maryland, University of DC Law School, University of Malta and Københavns University. And more are coming in all the time! The code for the website was produced by students from Boston University, Cornell University and Dartmouth University and is all totally Free and Open Source, so anybody can look at it and make their own site with it if they want to. There are plenty more features we are trying to implelment, like audio recordings of lectures and real-time, online collaborative notetaking! The website launched about a month ago at the Students for Free Culture conference in DC (http://conf11.freeculture.org/) and has been gaining traction ever since. Now it's stable enough and there is some seed content, we just need to get the word out to more college students! Would your paper be interested in running a story about our project? If you're interested, please get in touch with any questions you may have! Thanks very much! Rich Jones [email protected] ======================================================================================================== R On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Neville Bezzina <[email protected]>wrote: > hey everyone, just to let you know the first article about the local > chapter has appeared on The Insiter...I think Noteshub got a mention :) I'll > scan a copy and send it over asap :) > > BTW I uploaded something my mistake (an ungraded paper, rather than actual > NOTES) on the Noteshub site but can't figure how to take something down once > it's online...help?? > > > On 27 February 2011 21:00, Neville Bezzina <[email protected]>wrote: > >> will keep you posted :) >> >> >> On 27 February 2011 20:04, Parker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Sounds awesome, Neville! Keep us posted! Writing editorials is a great >>> way to get the word out about your chapters and about specific issues. >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Neville Bezzina < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey everyone, just a small note about Noteshub. >>>> >>>> At the moment myself and Simon from the FCa are meeting other relevant >>>> student organisations on campus to see how the Malta SFC chapter can >>>> collaborate on future events or projects. During last Friday's meeting with >>>> the editorial board of The Insiter (the print publication of >>>> Insite<http://insite.org.mt/>, >>>> which is the student media powerhouse on campus) we proposed that their >>>> March edition shall feature a piece written by me on Noteshub as a Students >>>> for Free culture project. The same piece will also appear on >>>> www.insiteronline.com in the coming days. I'm making it clear that the >>>> Malta chapter will be focusing a lot on open access education so Noteshub >>>> is >>>> an ideal project to promote in line with our local aims. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 16 February 2011 21:29, Rich Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> We've been working hard on the fc-hackers list and we're pleased to >>>>> announce our new project! >>>>> >>>>> *NotesHub* (http://noteshub.org/) is a place where students can share >>>>> notes, papers and other educational materials with each other. The content >>>>> here is 100% free and 100% submitted by students. You can read more about >>>>> the project at the about page: http://noteshub.org/about/ >>>>> >>>>> We need your help! The best thing you can do is upload all your old >>>>> notes and papers! >>>>> >>>>> The next best thing you can do it post about it on your Facebook page >>>>> or on Twitter! It's a great starting point for bringing up a discussion of >>>>> Free Culture on your campus. If you're on any other free culture mailing >>>>> lists, maybe you could forward this announcement to them, too! If you're >>>>> super cool, you can write about it for your college newspaper (just write >>>>> the main points of the article of yourself, then give it to the somebody >>>>> on >>>>> the newspaper staff - they'll normally just run it without changing too >>>>> much >>>>> at all - post back here if you have any results!) >>>>> >>>>> This is just the first iteration, just so we had something to show at >>>>> the conference, but it opens a lot of room for discussion about features >>>>> in >>>>> future. I'd like to see better organization and search (but we need more >>>>> content before we can work on that) and a way to take notes directly on >>>>> the >>>>> site (EtherPad style) - or perhaps as a plugin for OpenOffice. >>>>> >>>>> Hopefully there will be a session about NotesHub and other FC-Hackers >>>>> projects at the conf this weekend! >>>>> >>>>> Again, that URL was: >>>>> http://noteshub.org/ >>>>> >>>>> Thanks guys, see you this weekend! >>>>> Rich >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Discuss mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>>>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://www.madebyparker.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> >>> >> >
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