[okfn-discuss] WritingCommons.com: Free Online Composition Textbook

Fri Jun 17 15:21:20 UTC 2011

Also, who the heck is the company or organization that selects this
editorial board? I don't see anywhere, where this money is coming from. This
seems like a closed community that is like to be easily corrupted and
unsustainable,

Alex

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Katelin Kaiser <kskaiser24 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I want to share with everyone a *new and free** "commons-based peer
>> production"* composition textbook called Writing Commons<http://writingcommons.com/home>.
>> By this we mean that we hope that crowds of people--from experts such as
>> professors and professional writers to undergraduate students--can
>> collaborate with us to revise the pages we've already written as well as
>> write new pages.
>>
>
> Unclear to me how the NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license on the site
> facilitates this.
>
> In any case, seems out of scope for this list, see
> http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/
>
> Mike
>
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