[okfn-discuss] Awesome event! Building Our Autonomy: Autonets Convergence Toronto

This event looks amazing! https://www.facebook.com/events/207939576042480/ (I was unable to find a non-facebook event page) [image: Cover Photo] Autonets Convergence aims to brings together hackers, anti-rac

[okfn-discuss] GNU 30th Celebration

Hey all, I wanted to invite anyone who's in the Boston area this weekend to the GNU 30th Celebration: https://www.gnu.org/gnu30/ It would also be fantastic if anyone wanted to volunteer to help out at the event! If so, shoot an email to campai...@fsf.org If any of you go, i'll see you there [=

[okfn-discuss] First public peek at Daala, "next-next-generation" video codec from Xiph

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/duplicates/1grbf6/introducing_daala_the_nextnextgeneration_free/ I'm pumped about this. I had no idea how awesome it was the first time i shared this -- Board of Directors, Students for Free Culture: www.freeculture.org Blog: http://thesilentnumber.me - Stat

[okfn-discuss] FCX2013 needs your signal boost!

If you have a blog, or some social media profile (reddit, twitter, statusnet, tumblr) would you be willing to help spread the word about the conference? Mako has just blogged about it: > On the weekend of April 20-21, Students for Free > Cultureis going to be holding its

[okfn-discuss] Keeping DRM out of HTML5

This is important for anyone who cares about free culture. We can't let DRM tear apart the fabric of the web. Sign the petition: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5 [image: Inline image 1] Reddit link: http://www.reddit.com/r/techno

[okfn-discuss] Fwd: [FC-discuss] Announcing the Empowermentors Collective: a group for women of color and queer people of color

If you are an ally and want to help with this, it would be great for you to reach out to more WOC and QPOC in free software and free culture to join the group! Please forward widely http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/01/31/announcing-the-empowermentors-collective-a-group-for-women-of-color-and-queer

Re: [okfn-discuss] [FC-discuss] Help make a comparison of open access journals on Wikipedia

full OA journals. It's easy enough to add an option for "Mixed {{Yes-No}}" but it would be difficult to explain the specifics in that small field. Thoughts? On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Sage Ross wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Kẏra wrote: > > Wit

Re: [okfn-discuss] Help make a comparison of open access journals on Wikipedia

for other people to jump in and commit some time to this! On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Kẏra wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: >> >>> I think this is a

Re: [okfn-discuss] Open Alternatives to JSTOR and Gated Academic Journals

d for summaries? I have never seen Wikimedia Foundation > projects used for summaries and that was the reason I started my own wiki - > Brede Wiki <http://neuro.imm.dtu.dk/wiki/>. > > I think it would be a good idea if there was a WMF CC BY-SA site for > summaries and resear

Re: [okfn-discuss] Help make a comparison of open access journals on Wikipedia

emistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > ___ > > Have been in touch with them...no luck. Conversation thus far: -- Forwarded message -- From: Kẏra Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:09 PM Subject: Re: DOAJ Feedback: Fre

Re: [okfn-discuss] Help make a comparison of open access journals on Wikipedia

e open-science and open-access lists where several > people are active in logging this kind of information and may have ideas on > the most efficient way to get it into Wikipedia! > > Jenny > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Kẏra wrote: > >> Sorry for sending

Re: [okfn-discuss] How to honor Aaron Swartz

ould be a good idea if there was a WMF CC BY-SA site for > summaries and research data, especially now since we are getting Wikidata > that could store structured research data. > > > Finn Årup Nielsen > > > > On 01/28/2013 03:05 PM, Kẏra wrote: > >> I wonder if there

[okfn-discuss] Help make a comparison of open access journals on Wikipedia

Sorry for sending three emails in a row, I hadn't updated my email address so previous messages to the list were stuck in moderation and I just resent them. Anyways... Does anybody want to help me turn Wikipedia's list of OA journals into a comparison using tables that show ? * Whether the journa

[okfn-discuss] How to honor Aaron Swartz

I wonder if there's a way we could promote libre knowledge (which is freely licensed and in free formats) over individuals just posting links to their work. "Posting our PDFs is all fine and good, but the real way to honor Aaron Swartz is to combat this pervasive institutional fecklessness and do