On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 22:09 +1200, Ian Laurenson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 02:38, Ian Lynch wrote: > [snip] > > 1. If anyone wants to make any improvements to any of the documentation > > on the INGOTs website they are most welcome to do so. If anyone E-mails > > me for a copy of any of the materials in different formats I'll do the > > best I can to accommodate them. > [remainder snipped] > > Some questions for Ian Lynch: > > Why isn't the document available in an editable form available for > download?
It is in an editable form if you have a program that can edit pdf. The reason its not in a wider variety of formats is simply because no-one particularly asked for it to be. > If someone edits the file who has the copyright? All those who contributed to the new version but the CC license says they have to allow the same sort of sharing. The INGOT assessment scheme encourages things like assessors rewriting the criteria in language for their target students. In principle if a teacher did that the copyright would be theirs but hopefully they would consider sharing their work with others. > As OpenOffice.org education lead would you support a community based > accreditation scheme? You mean a different community based scheme? the INGOTs is a community based scheme but based on communities wider than just OOo. It has been grown from grass roots in collaboration with schools in the UK, Association for Free Software and SchoolforgeUK as well as OOo. Anyone can use and contribute to the INGOT documentation freely, in the same way as with any Open Source project. The only point at which anyone needs to pay anything is if they want an official certificate or they want to operate as an INGOT Academy. That does not limit anyone's freedom to use software or even documentation and there is all the usual scope for community particiption, so to me its a community project. My support for other schemes would depend on the purpose and nature of the other schemes. I'd take the views of other community members into account and decide what was likely to be most effective in furthering the development of OOo in education. My aim for the INGOTs is for them to fund a whole range of creative commons learning resources based on OOo complementary to resources developed by students, teachers and other volunteers. If other people have better ways of doing this then let's hear them. Since we have been discussing these things for a couple of years now, if there is a potentially better model, it hasn't obviously emerged yet. In fact there are some good precedents for joint volunteer/commercial input to community projects. Sun's role with OOo is the obvious one but dual licensing of MySQL is another. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
