Summer of Content 2009

[evanprodromou]

Hey, so, I'm looking for some college students to help out on a couple
of Open Content projects (launching non-English versions of Vinismo and
Keiki), and it got me thinking about a bigger kind of effort.

What if students could get a stipend to work on Open Knowledge or Open
Content projects on their summer off? They wouldn't need to have
technical or programming skills -- editorial, graphical, video and other
skills would be more relevant. Language, marketing and organizing skills
would come in useful, too -- for projects like the wikis I mention above.

It's waaaay too late to make this work for 2008, but it would be
interesting to do for Summer 2009. It would probably be possible to get,
say, $50K in donations and have 10 $5K stipends granted.

-Evan



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[Benj. Mako Hill-2]

<quote who="Evan Prodromou" date="Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:52:39PM -0400">

> Hey, so, I'm looking for some college students to help out on a couple  
> of Open Content projects (launching non-English versions of Vinismo and  
> Keiki), and it got me thinking about a bigger kind of effort.
>
> What if students could get a stipend to work on Open Knowledge or Open  
> Content projects on their summer off? They wouldn't need to have  
> technical or programming skills -- editorial, graphical, video and other  
> skills would be more relevant. Language, marketing and organizing skills  
> would come in useful, too -- for projects like the wikis I mention above.
>
> It's waaaay too late to make this work for 2008, but it would be  
> interesting to do for Summer 2009. It would probably be possible to get,  
> say, $50K in donations and have 10 $5K stipends granted.

SJ Klein has been working on this as well.  You should talk. He's CCed
here.

Later,
Mako

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Benjamin Mako Hill
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as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto


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[evanprodromou]

Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
>> What if students could get a stipend to work on Open Knowledge or Open  
>> Content projects on their summer off?
> SJ Klein has been working on this as well.  You should talk. He's CCed
> here.
>  
Augh! Every time I get a good idea, I find out SJ's been there first.

Seriously, SJ, let's talk off-line.

-Evan



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[Jonathan Gray-7]

Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
>> It's waaaay too late to make this work for 2008, but it would be  
>> interesting to do for Summer 2009. It would probably be possible to get,  
>> say, $50K in donations and have 10 $5K stipends granted.
>
> SJ Klein has been working on this as well.  You should talk. He's CCed
> here.

Just to follow up with this - we are still keen to get involved with any
further efforts along these lines. We were tied in fairly late in the
day last time:

http://blog.okfn.org/2007/08/16/summer-of-content-launch/
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2007-August/000503.html
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Content_organizations#Open_Knowledge_Foundation

We also worked a bit on documentation for licensing - though I think
some of our contributions may have been superseded:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Licensing
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:License

As an aside I wonder whether it could be worth mentioning the Open
Knowledge Definition (opendefinition.org) in addition to the Definition
of Free Cultural Works as it also addresses data - not just cultural
works or copyrightable content.

It would be great if the OKF could be more involved next time around.
Though we're probably not in much of a position to commit funds, I think
we'd be happy to co-organise.

I'm not entirely sure what happened to the last time - but it would be
great to read about what happened and which projects were developed!

Jonathan

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[Jonathan Gray-7]

Samuel Klein wrote:
> Hi there -- let's talk about this for the southern summer this year.  
> There are a few other projects joining forces along these lines too,
> many of them wiki powered.

Lets do that! In the first instance, what should we do? Whats the plan?
Are there any URLs you could throw at us to fill us in?

Hope you're well!

Jonathan

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