Dear friends,
Wikimedia is migrating all of its GFDL content to the CC-SA license:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update
Other massively collaborative sites that use the GFDL have only until
August 1 of this year to make a similar license switch, under the
terms of the latest GFDL license.
Other sites and authors that are currently using the GFDL to be
intercompatible with Wikipedia content, should plan to switch to CC-SA
around June 15 (when the WP license switch is scheduled to take
effect).
Please share this message widely. The time-constrained part applies
only to other wikis and massively-collaborative sites that chose their
license primarily to maintain WP compatibility.
SJ
Some of y'all might be interested. in this. Jen Brea, the organizer,
is rounding up a lot of interesting people for it.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jennifer Brea <jenbrea(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: Invite to TEDxCambridge
To: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
Sign up if you haven't already:
http://groups.google.com/group/tedxcambridgehttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56331806563
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey, how great! I'd love to. Will let you know for certain. Only 90
> min for all of cambridge's glory? :-) --S.
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Jennifer Brea <tedxcambridge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi SJ,
> > Hope you can make it! (If you can, RSVP!)
> > Jen
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > My name is Jennifer Brea and I am a Ph.D student in the Government
> > Department at Harvard. I had the fantastic good fortune to attend TED in
> > Arusha in 2007 and in Long Beach earlier this year as a TED Fellow. I'm
> > inviting you to help create a unique community here in Cambridge.
> >
> > TEDxCambridge (Beta)
> >
> > A community-building event for
> >
> > the Cambridge TED community
> >
> > Friday, May 1st, 7:30-9pm
> >
> > Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South
> >
> > 1730 Cambridge Street
> >
> > Harvard University
> >
> > To be followed by drinks at the home of TEDster, Omar Wasow
> >
> > Please
> > RSVP: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cGFqWHh3SC1MQWxtVjNKa…..
> >
> > About:
> >
> > TEDx is a new program being launched by TED (currently in beta) which
> > licenses groups around the world to hold their own TED-style events. These
> > events range from small, informal viewings of TED video to full-on, day-long
> > conferences with original speakers.
> >
> > A fundamental part of TED is the idea that all knowledge is connected. One
> > of the remarkable aspects of attending a TED conference is that not only can
> > you, in the course of a day, attend lectures, readings, and performances by
> > a poet, a pastor, an architect, an engineer, a jazz legend, and an
> > astrophysicist, you can then go and sit around a table with them at dinner.
> > There is an enormous wealth of talent and passion in Cambridge, but too few
> > opportunities to connect across disciplines, especially in an informal
> > setting.
> >
> > Imagine a community of inspired individuals who gather, throughout the year,
> > to watch TED talks, give their own talks in TED style, and share their ideas
> > and inspiration with each other, and the world.
> >
> > The shape that community takes depends on you.
> >
> > We'd love to hear from you!
> >
> > Please take a few minutes to share your ideas on how to bring TED to
> > Cambridge: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cGFqWHh3SC1MQWxuZkdpak52Um4…
> >
> > Stay connected:
> >
> > Join the Google Group
> > (http://groups.google.com/group/tedxcambridge?msg=new&lnk=gcis) or the
> > Facebook Group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56331806563) to
> > receive announcements about future events.
--
Jennifer Bréa
USA: 860 965 0434
Worldwide: +1 617 326 7631
http://www.jenbrea.nethttp://www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/jennifer
Judy, congratulations! This sounds great. Do you synchronize the work
with wikipedia at all? I copy the local wikipedians, who may have advice of
their own.
OLPC would certainly be interested in a health wikislice including
information such as this.
Regards,
SJ
On 5/4/09, Judy Stone <jstone12345(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, SJ,
>
> Thought you might be interested.
> I'm honored to have been asked to write/edit the section in Medpedia on
> H1N1 (swine) flu
> http://wiki.medpedia.com/Influenza_A_H1N1
>
> Medpedia is a neat medical wiki started in Feb, with contributions from
> Harvard, U Mich, Stanford, etc.
>
> While the info on H1N1 is fairly readily available, I've tried to make it
> more readable and common sense than some sources are.
> I thought the OLPC folks might be interested as well, as it is usable under
> GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>
>
> Suggestions are welcome; this is my first wiki/major project.
> Hope all is well with you. Will see you Jun 22, barring anything
> unforeseen, or you are welcome to come to Maine when we are there.
>
> Best,
>
> Judy
>
> *Judy Stone, MD*
>
> Author, "Conducting Clinical Research: A Practical Guide for
> Physicians, Nurses, Study Coordinators, and Investigators"
> www.conductingclinicalresearch.com
>
>
>
> <http://www.linkedin.com/e/sig/9513937/>
>