[snip] wonderful discussion. wish more people on the list would chime in, to ring in the new year.
okay, answering abstracts with abstractions will lead us into.... well... ummm... more abstractions! :-) taking a cue from sandip, am listing out what i feel should be the tangible goals, objectives, and deliverables, of freed.in 2008. Knowledge Shall Set You Free. How? With What? 1. understanding how and why to adopt free software for your roz-marra computing needs. 2. understanding how and why this adoption must go beyond your desktops to the systems deployed by others who interact with you digitally (your bank, train reservations, office, college, etc), and what YOU can do to usher this change. 3. be inspired and learn how you can contribute to the development of free software. 4. towards open content: creativecommons.org and similar initiatives: their role, their impact, how they impact our lives, how you can further their objectives. 5. authoring and contributing to open content: video, images, music, texts, blogs, wikis, podcasts, internet radio, and more. more specifically: tools, workflows, data formats, and publishing. 6. free education content: why education content must be free, especially in K12. how the foss valuesystem can help, with free tools, with open standards, with open fileformats, with localization, with web engines, with precedent, and more. 7. free education content: how to drive its adoption and its growth in your spheres. please feel free to add what you wish to this list of tangible, specific, deliverables. you may add specific and actual software and projects if you wish. the more detailed, the better. regards niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ Freed mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/freed
