[okfn-discuss] OKFN Textbook Proposal

Wed Oct 10 21:08:48 UTC 2012

Hi Aaron,

I would be very much interested in a tool to collaboratively write
textbooks. We are doing an open transport data handbook so this could
come in handy.

Two obvious questions:
* As you say it's open source, where can I find the source?
* Can we access chartus.org to try it out? Maybe then others will be
interested in maintaining it as an OKFN project

Kind regards,

Pieter

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Aaron Dunn <aaron at musopen.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> My name is Aaron Dunn, I'm the founder of Musopen.org. We recently began
>> work on an open textbook initiative called Chartus.org. We've built a very
>> sophisticated open source collaborative textbook editor, and recently
>> realized this work seems beyond what we focus on at Musopen.
>>
>
> I take this opportunity to congratulate Aaron and musopen.org. I have
> downloaded a number of the tracks and play them very regularly. For those
> who don't know musopen.org hosts specifically Public Domain music. When
> people say "what sort of music do you listen to?" I reply "Public Domain".
>
>>
>> I'm looking to see if someone would be interested in helping me launch
>> Chartus as an OKFN project, helping to grow a community of authors, locate
>> developer resources to finish development, and otherwise help grow the
>> initiative.
>>
> Presumably Chartus can be used to create both Open and non-Open works?
> [Nothing wrong with that]
>
>>
>> Questions or comments are welcome.
>>
>
>  I am potentially interested in authoring a chemistry/informatics book in
> collaborative mode. I would need to know a bit more about the software
> platform - I need to be able to manage XML and also install domain-specific
> editors (e.g. for chemical structures). We have these already, it's a
> question of integration
>
> BTW I discovered the Open Goldberg Variations
> (http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/) on musopen.org and the vision of
> this project is stunning - the integration of score, rendering, music etc.
> I'm no musician so this type of pedagogy is really valuable.
>
> And Aaron, please thank all your contributors on musopen.org.  Are some of
> them doing it on a regular basis? Or do you find recordings and persuade
> people to licence as CCZero?
>
> P
>
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
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> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
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