[Open-access] FOSsil Bank Wiki Update, 29 May 2014

Thu May 29 03:50:02 UTC 2014

Hi folks,

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Another FOSsil Bank update. As always, if you spot free, libre and open
works do let me know!

Cheers,
Chris
#FundFreeCulture

If you spot a chance to #FundFreeCulture, shoot me an email and tweet about
it!

I tweet from https://twitter.com/living_libre

The #FundFreeCulture page collects free, libre and open sources and works
that are – in some way – for sale or use donations as a funding model:
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/fundfreeculture
Ongoing

Via unglue,it, you can buy an ebook copy of John Sundman’s *Biodigital*, a
sci-fi novel. It will be CC BY-SA licensed in April 2016 at the latest –
but every ebook purchased brings that unlocking date earlier ($19,093 to
go): https://unglue.it/work/136615/

Via unglue.it, you can download sci-fi novel *Green Comet *for free – or
make a donation in thanks (CC BY-SA): https://unglue.it/work/128673/

Via unglue.it, you can download *The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925*, a
monograph, for free – or make a donation in thanks (CC BY):
https://unglue.it/work/136328/

Via unglue.it, you can download *The Digital Public Domain* for free – or
make a donation in thanks (CC BY): https://unglue.it/work/136338/

Sorry you missed the *Wuffle Year 2* pre-order? You can order a signed copy
of *Year 1* (CC0) from the Wuffle store: http://wufflecomics.storenvy.com/

On Patreon, *OpenGameArt.org* creator Bart Kelsey is looking for support to
improve content curation on the site (a terrific resource for game assets
and art) (range of FLO licences):http://www.patreon.com/opengameart

On Patreon, artist and designer *Daniel Solis* is creating *icon sets* for
tabletop games (CC BY):http://www.patreon.com/danielsolis

On Patreon, illustrator *John M Sheldon* is creating high quality genre
illustrations for authors and small publishers (CC BY):
http://www.patreon.com/Sheldon

On Patreon, artist *David Revoy* (you may recognise his concept art for the
Blender films) is creating cute fantasy comics (CC BY):
http://www.patreon.com/davidrevoy?rf=40864&ty=2

Remember there’s a list of *FLO Patreon projects* here:
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/patreon
Concluded

*Shattered Time* is an open source computer RPG on Kickstarter. It did not
make its target – but the creator launched Chronicles of the Rift, an
alternative (CC BY; Apache) ($2,836/$100,000):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/90524059/shattered-time-open-source-crpg

*Chronicles of the Rift* is an open source computer RPG on Kickstarter. It
made its ($1) target. (presumably CC BY; Apache) ($631/$1):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/90524059/chronicles-of-the-rift

*Wuffle, the Big Nice Wolf: Year 2*, a full colour comic on IndieGoGo made
its target (CC0) ($10,316/$4,800):
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wuffle-the-big-nice-wolf-year-2

*Josh Woodward*‘s new CD, *The Beautiful Machine*, is available in hardcopy
(CC BY) ($4,723/$1,000):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshwoodward/josh-woodwards-new-cd-the-beautiful-machine

*Open Source Beehives* are 3D-printable beehives aiming to help bees
survive by making keeping bees easier (CC BY-SA) ($63,057/$20,000):
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-source-beehives

*The Digital Comics Museum* held a fundraiser where donors could access the
public domain comics via FTP. That has ended, but you can still donate:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,5383.0.html

The *RationalWiki* fundraising drive has ended, but you can still donate to
support it (CC BY-SA):http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

*Nothing to Hide*, the game where you are complicit in your own
surveillance, was successfully funded (CC0) ($43,400/$40,000):
https://back.nothingtohide.cc/

*Project Gooseberry*, the latest *Blender Foundation* movie – and their
first attempt at a feature-length film, is an absurdist animation about
Michel the Sheep (CC BY) ($362,306/$640,000):
https://cloud.blender.org/gooseberry/
*Libre* Hardware

*Open Source Beehives* are sensor enhanced ‘printable’ beehives (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:open-source-beehives

On *OSVehicle*, you can download car designs (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:osvehicle
Software, Electronic Games, Fonts

Some of the 60 submissions to the *Public Domain Game Design Jam* were CC0
licensed (CC0):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-public-domain-game-jam

*Jagannatha* is a font to encode the Odia script in Unicode (SIL OFL):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:jagannatha-font

*Comic Neue* is an elegant take on Comic Sans (CC0):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:comic-neue

*Nothing to Hide* is an “anti-stealth” computer game where you are
complicit in your own surveillance (CC0):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:nothing-to-hide
Music

*I’m Fresh You’re Pretty* make some pretty good music over at Jamendo (CC
BY):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:im-fresh-youre-pretty
Art

The *(un)Common Adventure Gallery* has some great – and quirky – art (CC
BY):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:uncommon-adventure-gallery

Vector and raster *dice icons* (CC BY):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:dice-icons

*David Revoy*‘s page now has a list of his works and the licence that
they’re under (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:david-revoy

*Sunspot* make some cool music (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:sunspot

*audionautix* supplies free production music (CC BY):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:audionautix

*Dan-O* offers free, original music (CC BY):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:dan-o
Tabletop Games

*The Carnival of Dreams* is a Swords Without Master adventure (CC BY):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-carnival-of-dreams

My Dungeon World zine *Grim Portents* has released issue 2, and it’s
switched to be primarily a blog publishing content every second day (CC BY
or CC BY-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:grim-portents

*Open Adventure* is a tabletop adventure game, in beta, which caters for
medieval and science fiction gaming (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:open-adventure

A pretty, gratis PDF of the tabletop RPG *13th Age* was released (OGL):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:13th-age

*omnibus.io <http://omnibus.io>* is a Dungeon World database with gaming
content (range of licences and none):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:omnibus-io

*The Lands of the Dead* is a work-in-progress book for Dungeon World
players (CC BY-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-lands-of-the-dead

*The Devil, John Moulton* is a game about demon-summoning outlaws in the
Wild West (CC BY):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-devil-john-moulton
Literature

*Entropy of Imagination* is a novel about the Internet (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:entropy-of-imagination

*Green Comet* is a science fiction novel (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:green-comet

*A Vessel for Offering* is hardboiled pseudo-Lovecraftian space noir (CC
BY):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:a-vessel-for-offering
Information

*The Democracy of Objects* is a book arguing for ontology as first
philosophy (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-democracy-of-objects

*Design Livre* is a Portuguese book about design (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:design-livre

*A Byte of Python* is a book on how to program Python (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:a-byte-of-python

*Introduction to Basic Legal Citation* is for US legal citation and is as
exciting as it sounds! (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:introduction-to-basic-legal-citation

*Forall X* is an introduction to formal logic (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:forall-x

*Light and Matter* is an introductory course textbook (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:light-and-matter

*Immersion into Noise* is about our relationship with noise, sound and
silence (CC BY-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:immersion-into-noise

*The Open Policy Network* launched recently (CC BY):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:open-policy-network

*Open Access EBooks* is a chapter on what open access means in the context
of ebooks (CC BY):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:open-access-ebooks

*Jagannatha* is an Odia author and academic (CC BY-SA, GNU FDL):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:jagannath-mohanty

*Konkani Vishkawosh* is a four-volume encyclopedia in the Konkani language
(CC BY-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:konkani-vishkawosh

*The Open Library of the Humanities* is a PLOS-style open access journal
for the humanities (CC BY):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:open-library-of-the-humanities

*The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925* is a study of how short stories were
written and read (CC BY):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-classic-short-story

*Introduction to Economic Analysis* is intermediate microeconomics material
(CC BY):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:introduction-to-economic-analysis

*Copyright for Librarians* is an online curriculum on copyright law (CC BY):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:copyright-for-librarians

*Deep Freeze* describes Iceland’s economic collapse (CC BY):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:deep-freeze

*Against Intellectual Property* is Stephen Kinsella’s challenge to the
notion that intellectual property is compatible with the free market (CC
BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:against-intellectual-property

*Code* is Larry Lessig’s book on the amorality of the infrastructure of the
web (CC BY-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:code

*So You Want to Be a Librarian* provides information about librarianship as
a career (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:so-you-want-to-be-a-librarian

*Homotopy Type Theory* is a new branch of mathematics (CC BY-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:homotopy-type-theory
*Proprietary*

*Bugs of Venus* is a tabletop RPG based on Lady Blackbird and Death School
(CC BY-NC-SA):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:bugs-of-venus

*VideoLectures.NET* records lectures and talks, mostly on computer science
(CC BY-NC-ND):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:videolectures-net

*Acts of the Apostles* was the second Creative Commons licensed novel ever
(CC BY-NC-ND):http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:acts-of-the-apostles

*Critical Hits* is a journal of gamer culture (CC BY-NC-SA):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:critical-hits

*Genesis of Legend* is an RPG publisher (CC BY-NC-ND – but The Spark RPG is
going to be CC BY licensed):
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:genesis-of-legend

*Chris Sakkas**Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki
<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/> and the Living Libre blog
<http://www.livinglibre.com> and Twitter feed
<https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre>.*
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