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- From: jgoodwin@cns35.fnal.gov (John Goodwin)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
- Subject: FreeLore Announcement Text
- Keywords: FreeLore, FreeLore Announcement
- Message-ID: <21DEC199214382291@cns35.fnal.gov>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:38:00 GMT
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, AD/Controls
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-
- ====== INVITATION TO JOIN THE FREELORE PROJECT ==
-
- FreeLore is useful information that is stored in
- electronic or magnetic media and has a copyright
- similar to that of GNU software. FreeLore is not
- a proprietary name or product, but an idea. In
- essence, it is the generalization of GNU software
- to any kind of useful information.
-
- You are hereby cordially invited to join the FreeLore
- Project as a charter member.
-
- The provisional purpose of the FreeLore Project is
- to organize volunteers to:
-
- -- promote and encourage the production of free
- educational and other useful materials
- (``FreeLore'') in the electronic and
- electronically-derived print media;
-
- -- to define standards for FreeLore;
-
- -- to promote active discussion of issues facing
- the producers of FreeLore;
-
- -- to capture and enhance (markup) public-domain data for
- inclusion in FreeLore;
-
- -- to provide information to persons interested in
- using or writing FreeLore;
-
- -- to promote efficient use of networks as a means of
- providing access to FreeLore;
-
- -- to organize and provide support services such
- as archiving, markup, cataloguing,
- self-registration of (self-)published materials,
- and software maintenance;
-
- -- to promote cataloguing standards for FreeLore;
-
- -- to encourage electronic-media as the primary media
- of scholarly discussion and journal publication;
-
- -- to create copylefted or public-domain software for
- creating, accessing, and viewing FreeLore;
-
- -- to promote freedom of access to information in
- whatever form generally.
-
- Our first task will be to work out a real charter and
- an agenda. Discussion will be mostly by email, and
- not necessarily conducted in alt.uu.future.
-
- If you are interested, please send your contact
- information, special concerns, and ways in which
- you think you might be able to contribute to the
- project to:
-
- jgoodwin@adcalc.fnal.gov
-
- Please indicate whether you have access to the
- alt.uu.future newsgroup, or whether you obtained
- this information by other means.
- =========================================================
- John Goodwin (in propria persona, nec pro Fermilab)
- JGOODWIN@ADCALC.FNAL.GOV
- -----
- (Advertisement)
- Upcoming numbers of the FreeLore Tracts, available in
- newsgroup alt.uu.future:
-
- FreeLore I. What is FreeLore? [Publius]
- FreeLore II. Who Needs FreeLore? [Publius]
- FreeLore III. What Is to Be Done? [Publius]
- FreeLore IV. Public Domain Markup and the Public Good [Publius]
-
- The purpose of the FreeLore Tract series is to
- promote discussion of the direction of quasi-
- public domain information resources, especially
- those used for educational purposes, and to
- encourage the production of useful, free
- software and educational materials.
-
- If you wish to contribute to this series, send
- your article to the above email address. We
- reserve the right to edit for style, format, and
- content, and to reject articles not congruent with
- the goals of the series. Edited articles will be
- returned to authors for approval before publication.
- =======
- (end advertisement)
-