Hi folks, You can read this email on the Living Libre blog.<http://livinglibre1.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/fossil-bank-update-29-may-2014/> ---------------------------------------------------------- Another FOSsil Bank update. As always, if you spot free, libre and open works do let me know!
Cheers, Chris #FundFreeCulture If you spot a chance to #FundFreeCulture, shoot me an email and tweet about it! I tweet from https://twitter.com/living_libre The #FundFreeCulture page collects free, libre and open sources and works that are – in some way – for sale or use donations as a funding model: http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/fundfreeculture Ongoing Via unglue,it, you can buy an ebook copy of John Sundman’s *Biodigital*, a sci-fi novel. It will be CC BY-SA licensed in April 2016 at the latest – but every ebook purchased brings that unlocking date earlier ($19,093 to go): https://unglue.it/work/136615/ Via unglue.it, you can download sci-fi novel *Green Comet *for free – or make a donation in thanks (CC BY-SA): https://unglue.it/work/128673/ Via unglue.it, you can download *The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925*, a monograph, for free – or make a donation in thanks (CC BY): https://unglue.it/work/136328/ Via unglue.it, you can download *The Digital Public Domain* for free – or make a donation in thanks (CC BY): https://unglue.it/work/136338/ Sorry you missed the *Wuffle Year 2* pre-order? You can order a signed copy of *Year 1* (CC0) from the Wuffle store: http://wufflecomics.storenvy.com/ On Patreon, *OpenGameArt.org* creator Bart Kelsey is looking for support to improve content curation on the site (a terrific resource for game assets and art) (range of FLO licences):http://www.patreon.com/opengameart On Patreon, artist and designer *Daniel Solis* is creating *icon sets* for tabletop games (CC BY):http://www.patreon.com/danielsolis On Patreon, illustrator *John M Sheldon* is creating high quality genre illustrations for authors and small publishers (CC BY): http://www.patreon.com/Sheldon On Patreon, artist *David Revoy* (you may recognise his concept art for the Blender films) is creating cute fantasy comics (CC BY): http://www.patreon.com/davidrevoy?rf=40864&ty=2 Remember there’s a list of *FLO Patreon projects* here: http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/patreon Concluded *Shattered Time* is an open source computer RPG on Kickstarter. It did not make its target – but the creator launched Chronicles of the Rift, an alternative (CC BY; Apache) ($2,836/$100,000): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/90524059/shattered-time-open-source-crpg *Chronicles of the Rift* is an open source computer RPG on Kickstarter. It made its ($1) target. (presumably CC BY; Apache) ($631/$1): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/90524059/chronicles-of-the-rift *Wuffle, the Big Nice Wolf: Year 2*, a full colour comic on IndieGoGo made its target (CC0) ($10,316/$4,800): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wuffle-the-big-nice-wolf-year-2 *Josh Woodward*‘s new CD, *The Beautiful Machine*, is available in hardcopy (CC BY) ($4,723/$1,000): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshwoodward/josh-woodwards-new-cd-the-beautiful-machine *Open Source Beehives* are 3D-printable beehives aiming to help bees survive by making keeping bees easier (CC BY-SA) ($63,057/$20,000): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-source-beehives *The Digital Comics Museum* held a fundraiser where donors could access the public domain comics via FTP. That has ended, but you can still donate: http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,5383.0.html The *RationalWiki* fundraising drive has ended, but you can still donate to support it (CC BY-SA):http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page *Nothing to Hide*, the game where you are complicit in your own surveillance, was successfully funded (CC0) ($43,400/$40,000): https://back.nothingtohide.cc/ *Project Gooseberry*, the latest *Blender Foundation* movie – and their first attempt at a feature-length film, is an absurdist animation about Michel the Sheep (CC BY) ($362,306/$640,000): https://cloud.blender.org/gooseberry/ *Libre* Hardware *Open Source Beehives* are sensor enhanced ‘printable’ beehives (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:open-source-beehives On *OSVehicle*, you can download car designs (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:osvehicle Software, Electronic Games, Fonts Some of the 60 submissions to the *Public Domain Game Design Jam* were CC0 licensed (CC0): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-public-domain-game-jam *Jagannatha* is a font to encode the Odia script in Unicode (SIL OFL): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:jagannatha-font *Comic Neue* is an elegant take on Comic Sans (CC0): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:comic-neue *Nothing to Hide* is an “anti-stealth” computer game where you are complicit in your own surveillance (CC0): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:nothing-to-hide Music *I’m Fresh You’re Pretty* make some pretty good music over at Jamendo (CC BY):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:im-fresh-youre-pretty Art The *(un)Common Adventure Gallery* has some great – and quirky – art (CC BY):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:uncommon-adventure-gallery Vector and raster *dice icons* (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:dice-icons *David Revoy*‘s page now has a list of his works and the licence that they’re under (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:david-revoy *Sunspot* make some cool music (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:sunspot *audionautix* supplies free production music (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:audionautix *Dan-O* offers free, original music (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:dan-o Tabletop Games *The Carnival of Dreams* is a Swords Without Master adventure (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-carnival-of-dreams My Dungeon World zine *Grim Portents* has released issue 2, and it’s switched to be primarily a blog publishing content every second day (CC BY or CC BY-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:grim-portents *Open Adventure* is a tabletop adventure game, in beta, which caters for medieval and science fiction gaming (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:open-adventure A pretty, gratis PDF of the tabletop RPG *13th Age* was released (OGL): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:13th-age *omnibus.io <http://omnibus.io>* is a Dungeon World database with gaming content (range of licences and none): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:omnibus-io *The Lands of the Dead* is a work-in-progress book for Dungeon World players (CC BY-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-lands-of-the-dead *The Devil, John Moulton* is a game about demon-summoning outlaws in the Wild West (CC BY):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-devil-john-moulton Literature *Entropy of Imagination* is a novel about the Internet (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:entropy-of-imagination *Green Comet* is a science fiction novel (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:green-comet *A Vessel for Offering* is hardboiled pseudo-Lovecraftian space noir (CC BY):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:a-vessel-for-offering Information *The Democracy of Objects* is a book arguing for ontology as first philosophy (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-democracy-of-objects *Design Livre* is a Portuguese book about design (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:design-livre *A Byte of Python* is a book on how to program Python (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:a-byte-of-python *Introduction to Basic Legal Citation* is for US legal citation and is as exciting as it sounds! (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:introduction-to-basic-legal-citation *Forall X* is an introduction to formal logic (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:forall-x *Light and Matter* is an introductory course textbook (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:light-and-matter *Immersion into Noise* is about our relationship with noise, sound and silence (CC BY-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:immersion-into-noise *The Open Policy Network* launched recently (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:open-policy-network *Open Access EBooks* is a chapter on what open access means in the context of ebooks (CC BY):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:open-access-ebooks *Jagannatha* is an Odia author and academic (CC BY-SA, GNU FDL): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:jagannath-mohanty *Konkani Vishkawosh* is a four-volume encyclopedia in the Konkani language (CC BY-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:konkani-vishkawosh *The Open Library of the Humanities* is a PLOS-style open access journal for the humanities (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:open-library-of-the-humanities *The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925* is a study of how short stories were written and read (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-classic-short-story *Introduction to Economic Analysis* is intermediate microeconomics material (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:introduction-to-economic-analysis *Copyright for Librarians* is an online curriculum on copyright law (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:copyright-for-librarians *Deep Freeze* describes Iceland’s economic collapse (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:deep-freeze *Against Intellectual Property* is Stephen Kinsella’s challenge to the notion that intellectual property is compatible with the free market (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:against-intellectual-property *Code* is Larry Lessig’s book on the amorality of the infrastructure of the web (CC BY-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:code *So You Want to Be a Librarian* provides information about librarianship as a career (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:so-you-want-to-be-a-librarian *Homotopy Type Theory* is a new branch of mathematics (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:homotopy-type-theory *Proprietary* *Bugs of Venus* is a tabletop RPG based on Lady Blackbird and Death School (CC BY-NC-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:bugs-of-venus *VideoLectures.NET* records lectures and talks, mostly on computer science (CC BY-NC-ND):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:videolectures-net *Acts of the Apostles* was the second Creative Commons licensed novel ever (CC BY-NC-ND):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:acts-of-the-apostles *Critical Hits* is a journal of gamer culture (CC BY-NC-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:critical-hits *Genesis of Legend* is an RPG publisher (CC BY-NC-ND – but The Spark RPG is going to be CC BY licensed): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:genesis-of-legend *Chris Sakkas**Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/> and the Living Libre blog <http://www.livinglibre.com> and Twitter feed <https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre>.*
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