[FM Discuss] the booki vision so far

[adam hyde]

On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 16:46 -0500, Janet Swisher wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:34 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I am actively pursuing more leads for funding for the Booki development.
> > Below is a text describing the vision. I want to trim this down to a
> > short doc so I can easily ship it off to anyone interested. So, the
> > below is source material, any comments welcomed.
> 
> > ** Re-imagining Publishing
> > Creating reusable repositories of books and dispelling the myth of sole
> > authorship is simultaneously a disruptive challenge to the publishing
> > industry as well as a productive environment for collaboratively
> > creating many wonderful new books. This is our goal for Booki.
> 
> As a follow-up to Jay's comment, I suggest recasting this whole paragraph:
> 
> Our goal for Booki is to establish a productive environment for
> collaboratively creating many wonderful new books by seeding reusable
> repositories of content. As side-effects to this goal, Booki
> disruptively challenges the publishing industry and dispels the notion
> of sole authorship as necessary for book production.

ta :)

> 
> > The Booki interface is
> > designed around the authors and their needs to write, to discuss their
> > views, to seek assistance with partner writers, to translate and reuse
> > content.
> 
> I'd like to change this to "designed around communities of authors ..."
> 

i was trying to avoid the use of 'authors'

> > Booki uses open content licenses by default which
> > partially assists reuse.
> 
> The significance of defaulting to open licensing is that it forces
> users or at least administrators to make a conscious choice of a
> license. In all other software, the default license is absolute
> copyright. Imagine creating a new document in MS Word, and having it
> ask "What license should this file have? () All rights reserved, ()
> GPL, () CC-BY-SA, () Public domain". This is really a policy issue,
> not a software issue; it should be possible to create closed content
> with Booki, but one should have to consciously choose to do that.
> 

yeah...interesting one i have been pondering myself...im not sure we
should make copyright all rights reserved available...if someone wants
to install their own version they can hack it in...

thoughts?

adam


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