[open-development] practical answers

Fri Sep 21 16:46:23 UTC 2012

Hi Rob,

Re the GNU FDL that you're using now: An equivalent license in its key
points is the CC-by-sa <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>.
While the GNU FDL is an older licensing meant mainly for software
documentation, CC-by-sa is a more user-friendly and practical license.
(E.g. if making a hard copy of licensed work, the GNU GDL would require you
to print out the many-page license along with it.)

CC-by-sa is the more popular license these days, and it's used by Wikimedia
projects, as well as Appropedia (which I'm involved with). We'd be very
happy to see PA using CC-by-sa, as would make sharing easier.

Cheers
Chris

On 22 September 2012 01:15, Robert Cartridge <
rob.cartridge at practicalaction.org.uk> wrote:

> HI Jonathan ****
>
> ** **
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> Thanks for your fast response. At the moment we have a GNU Free
> documentation licence allowing people to freely copy, distribute and
> multiply. See our terms and conditions at
> http://practicalaction.org/answers-terms-and-conditions I know we have
> talked about creative commons in the past so I will definitely revisit
> that. I will also see if we can get the copyright into the site footer – as
> I just struggled to find it myself!****
>
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> The “data” that we produce is mainly in the form of technical briefs –
> these are accessible pdfs with simple engineering solutions for people who
> work in development. There are about 400 of them varying for yoghurt making
> (as a way to diversify income as a cattle owner) which you can see here
> http://practicalaction.org/yoghurt-incubator  to building a micro hydro
> electric generating station.
> http://practicalaction.org/micro-hydro-power-2****
>
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> Increasingly we are trying to move away from pdf and also include videos
> and audio files – which are more accessible to the people we are trying to
> reach****
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> Hope this gives you a better idea of what we are about****
>
> ** **
>
> Rob Cartridge****
>
> Head of Practical Answers****
>
> Practical Action
> T 01926 634556
> M 07867 507069****
>
> Skype rcartridge-practicalactionuk****
>
> Twitter @RobCartridge
>
> P.S. Have you seen our new technical brief on appropriate technologies for
> baking?. Find out more at http://practicalaction.org/baking****
>
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> *From:* okfn.jonathan.gray at gmail.com [mailto:okfn.jonathan.gray at gmail.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Jonathan Gray
> *Sent:* 21 September 2012 16:01
> *To:* Robert Cartridge
> *Cc:* open-development at lists.okfn.org
> *Subject:* Re: [open-development] practical answers****
>
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>
> Welcome Robert!****
>
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>
> Thanks very much for getting in touch. Before adopting any particular
> metadata scheme to expose your information, it would be good to take the
> more basic step of using an explicit "open license" to publish information
> on your site.****
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> You say that (some of) your website is "open source" - but it isn't clear
> to me which bit? It would be good to display an open license - such as the
> Creative Commons Attribution license or any others listed at
> opendefinition.org/licenses - in the footer of your site, and make it
> clear to what this applies (presumably everything by default?):****
>
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> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/****
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> With regards to publishing data - it would be great to hear more about
> what kind of data you publish. Any links to the data would help people to
> think about what other kinds of metadata schemes you might look at.****
>
> ** **
>
> All the best,****
>
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>
> Jonathan****
>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Robert Cartridge <
> rob.cartridge at practicalaction.org.uk> wrote:****
>
> Hi****
>
> I am looking for some help and advice. I’ have perused your website but
> not sure quite where I fit!  ****
>
> I run the knowledge sharing service of the international development NGO
> Practical Action. We have a series of websites attracting more than 1.5
> million visitors per year, to download information about appropriate
> technologies for poverty reduction.  ****
>
> The main site is www.practicalanswers.org The information is free of
> charge and “open source”. We want to get it as far and wide as we can.
> Increasingly we want to provide feeds to other websites. Most recently we
> have had contact with the people at http://www.reegle.info/ who are
> encouraging us to adopt their metadata scheme “linked open data” in order
> to facilitate better sharing and collaboration. ****
>
> Before we go down this route we wanted to try and map whether there are
> any other open metadata schemes which we should be aware of so that we
> don’t end up investing in a potential “beta max”. As a non- techy marketing
> person, I am looking for some help in finding my way through this maze –
> can you point me in the right direction please?****
>
> Many thanks****
>
>  ****
>
> Rob****
>
>  ****
>
> Rob Cartridge****
>
> Head of Practical Answers****
>
> Practical Action
> T 01926 634556
> M 07867 507069****
>
> Skype rcartridge-practicalactionuk****
>
> Twitter @RobCartridge
>
> P.S. Have you seen our new technical brief on appropriate technologies for
> baking?. Find out more at http://practicalaction.org/baking****
>
>  ****
>
> ** **
>
> **** <http://www.practicalaction.org/>
>
> *Practical Action uses technology to challenge poverty, working with poor
> women and men around the world. www.practicalaction.org<http://www.practicalaction.org/>
> *
>
> ** ** <http://www.practicalaction.org/>
>
> **** <http://www.practicalaction.org/>
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> ****
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> *Practical Action**
> The Schumacher Centre for Technology and Development, Bourton on Dunsmore,
> Rugby, Warwickshire, UK, CV23 9QZ.
> Practical Action is a charity registered in England and Wales, and a
> company limited by guarantee in England no. 871954.
> VAT Reg No. 880992476. Reg Charity No. 247257.*
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