On 10 November 2017 at 17:59, <leutha@fabiant.eu> wrote:

Well, there was a conception  open documents certainly back in the fifties. Check Neils Bohr's concept of an Open World in his Open Letter to the United Nations June 9, 1950.

The ideal of an open world, with common knowledge about social conditions and technical enterprises, including military preparations, in every country, might seem a far remote possibility in the prevailing world situation. Still, not only will such relationship between nations obviously be required for genuine co-operation on progress of civilization, but even a common declaration of adherence to such a course would create a most favourable background for concerted efforts to promote universal security. Moreover, it appeared to me that the countries which had pioneered in the new technical development might, due to their possibilities of offering valuable information, be in a special position to take the initiative by a direct proposal of full mutual openness.

all the best

Fabian

On 10 November 2017 at 14:17 Rex X <rexx@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

I know my old dinosaur brain gets confused easily these days, but I seem to
remember that when we were typing our theses back in the '60s, there wasn't any
such thing as an open document. Maybe that's why?

--
T-Rexx

On 10 November 2017 at 10:56 Charles Matthews

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On 10 November 2017 at 09:28 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:

On 02/11/17 21:12, Charles Matthews wrote:

The meetup has a conventional wiki page

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/36

Can you ask Prof. Hawking why he did not publish his thesis as an open
document?

Sure, next meeting he attends. (It gives me a chance to say that, from the
point
of view of wheelchair access, the current venue is much better than we have
had
in the past.) In fact the last time I was in a room with him, it was at a a
shortened version of the Ring Cycle. But that was many years ago.

Hawking's papers are actually at the Moore Library in Cambridge.

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