[Open-access] Eric Raymond offer to help with "Open Access"

Sun Feb 5 18:08:26 UTC 2012

Eric,
Many thanks indeed for your comment to my post [
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?p=3476 ] and offer
in your last para

I’m willing to assist; I can help with drafting the definition, and I can
explain lessons of experience from our community that I think will apply
directly to the problems you face.

 We have literally (in the last 2 weeks) set up a group under the OKF (Open
Knowledge Foundation) banner which is addressing exactly this. I have
copied this mail to them. OKF is Open to all and you are very welcome to be
part of this activity.

I will blog your comment and elaborate. Personally I owe the F/OSS movement
a great deal and I think the OKF philosophy is considerably informed by it.

This mailing list (open-access) is dedicated to finding a clear practical
solution. We are not prepared to compromise on the line between commercial
and non-commercial nor on constraints on re-use. We are also committed to
creating real valuable examples of Openness so that we convince by practice
as well as discourse.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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