Hi Chris and all,

Looks great, and glad to see this worthy project has a new home.

I'm particularly a fan of the "free and open" terminology - it's clearer
and more self-explanatory than the customary recital of the collection of
everyone's favorite branded particularist concepts.

Thanks,
Richard / Pharos
Wikimedia NYC

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Awesome!!  Thanks Chris for keeping this up to date.
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Chris Sakkas <sanglor...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> You may remember that for a few years I posted semi-regular updates to
>> these lists about the FOSsil Bank, a catalogue of low copyright works
>> (public domain, free and open, other Creative Commons licences, etc.).
>>
>> The FOSsil Bank has been retired, and as of last week I'm encouraging
>> everyone to check out Free and Open Works instead:
>> http://faow.referata.com/wiki/Welcome_to_Free_and_Open_Works!
>>
>> The new wiki runs off Semantic MediaWiki, so it's a bit cleverer in terms
>> of metadata, the forms to submit a work are much easier and faster to use,
>> and it's running off entirely free and open software.
>>
>> Please do check it out, share it with your networks, and contribute to
>> it; there's also a formal press release
>> <http://faow.referata.com/wiki/Press_Release_(2015-10-17)> if you're
>> interested in some more information - or you can write to me privately or
>> on these lists if you have any questions or comments.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>
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