FWIW, it'd be awesome if chapters could contribute even a tiny, tiny amount so we can say that we have content from more schools, to make for better propaganda.
Over the summer, I also have plans to extend this with collaborative note taking, we'll see how that goes (the idea is to use etherpad as the edit link for a wiki) On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Rich Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > -- Alec Story Cornell University Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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