From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 00:41:39 MST
Reason wrote:
> So I think that some form of technological community integration tool would
> be very beneficial to the transhuman community at this time. The integration
> between ExI boards and mailing lists is a first step in that direction, from
> a technology point of view. What I have in mind would be something of the
> "all places are one place" ilk:
I think it would be a terrific idea to have one big >H site, with news
and articles, that we all coorporate on. And if such a site will come
into existence I am willing to support it.
But I am afraid that it is a doomed idea to make one site to cover it
all. We are all very much individualists, and so want to do our own
thing our own way. So we all want to be site owners.
I believe that the best way to do this sort of thing instead, would be
to have some sort of "comunity license" where we share our content
freely. So that we could each put our articles online, and other sites
could copy them. With a proper copyright notice in the bottom of the
article.
Something like:
----------------------------------------
"Article title", by author
This article first appeared on:
http://www.originalsite.org/articletitle.htm
This content is protected by the Transhumanist comunity license at:
http://www.transhumanism.org/comunity_license.htm
----------------------------------------
That way we could get the best of both worlds, where authors can put
something online, others can copy it and put it on their site, if they
fullfill the comunity license. The comunity would get much more out of
it's efforts. And every site owner would be working for their own little
ego ;-)
It would also be easier to make localized versions in out own language.
Which I would like very much. I have a danish site screaming for
content. On uninspired days it would be nice if I could just translate
some article that is allready written.
So I believe that we should look to create a comunity license instead of
a big technical solution. It would be self organisation in a distributed
system.
If that works, we could then allways create some xml schemas so that the
process could be automated.
Comments?
-- hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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