[okfn-discuss] Scholas

Wed Aug 19 16:27:06 UTC 2009

Dear Tom,

Excellent news! Let us know if you open source the remaining code.
We'd love to do a blog post on this - as it would be a great example
of an open service!

Best wishes and thanks for getting in touch,

Jonathan

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Tom Morris<tom at schol.as> wrote:
> Dear Jonathan,
> Thanks for the interest. We have Open Sourced some of the code, specifically
> the code used to import meta data via DOI (which can be found
> here: http://github.com/ottbot/crossref/).
> We would certainly consider Open Sourcing the remaining code in the future.
> Kind Regards,
> Tom Morris
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Tom,
>>
>> Many thanks for your email! I've forwarded details to our discussion list.
>>
>> It looks like a really useful service. I've just signed up for an
>> account and I shall certainly consider using it for disseminating my
>> own academic work!
>>
>> I wonder how the source code for the service is licensed? Have you
>> considered putting this under a Free/Open Source license? In this
>> respect you might be interested in our Open Service Definition:
>>
>>  http://opendefinition.org/ossd
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://www.okfn.org
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Tom Morris <tom at schol.as>
>> Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM
>> Subject: Scholas
>> To: jonathan.gray at okfn.org
>>
>>
>> Dear Jonathan,
>> I came across your email via the OKFN web-site.
>> Having looked at what the OKFN does, I thought you might be interested
>> in a project I have been working called called Scholas
>> (http://schol.as).
>> The main aim of the service is to enable academics to upload and share
>> files quickly and easily using short URL's. The user also has the
>> option to license any work they share under a creative commons
>> license (for more information about features please see
>> http://schol.as/about-scholas/).
>> Kind Regards,
>> Tom Morris
>
>

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org