This seems like an amazing chance for WikiProjects in almost any area.
You need to describe how your work supports open education, set a
project with milestones and metrics for success, and submit a grant
request:
http://blogs.talis.com/education/incubator/guidelines/
We do many of the things they ask for - licensing, educational focus,
making things visible and findable online - reflexively. It would be
great to see them get a whole specturm of wikimedia proposals. [if
you /do/ submit one, consider discussing it on strategy.wikimedia.org
as well :) ]
SJ
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From: Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] Talis Incubator for Open Education funding available
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Via the Creative Commons blog - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17005
Talis Incubator for Open Education
For the latest news follow us on twitter: @talisincubator
Talis understands the growing importance of the Open Education
movement and its potential impact on how education is accessed,
assessed and certified.
Aimed at individuals or small groups, the Talis Incubator for Open
Education provides angel funding and other forms of assistance for
ideas and projects that have the potential to further the cause of
Open Education through the use of technology. All we ask in return is
that you donate or ‘open source’ the intellectual property generated
back to the communities that could benefit most from your work.
The brief
1. Write a proposal outlining your Open Education related project
or idea, making a bid for funding of between £1,000 and £15,000.
2. After reviewing and making sure your proposal meets the
guidelines, submit it to incubator(a)talis.com.
3. A proposal review board made up of independent thought leaders
and Talis representatives decide which projects get funding.
4. For successful bids, Talis awards you the funds and organises
any other help you have asked for.
5. Complete the project according to the schedule outlined in your proposal.
6. Talis helps you to make sure your work is disseminated amongst
the community.
from http://blogs.talis.com/education/incubator/
they also note "We also welcome applications from outside the UK,
however we regret that we can only consider and award amounts in GBP
(£), so if you are from outside the UK please account for exchange
rate fluctuation, and make sure you can receive funds paid in GBP."
Looks a bit interesting!
cheers
Brianna
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Hi there,The Wiktionary logo 2009 refresh has been going on for a while now,
and as the logo submissions have been made, the voting will start soon.
Please visit meta:Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Voting<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Voting>
for
a discussion about the voting, and participate when the voting actually
starts at meta:Wiktionary/logo/refresh/voting<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/refresh/voting>.
Also, as is said on the discussion page, we need people to notify all the
major Wiktionaries of the vote. Help would be much appreciated.
And... could someone in charge please show up and help with the vote? We
have a feeling that the 2009 refresh is being 'abandoned'.
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YANG Xudong (Wyvernoid)
The amateurs built the boat. The professionals built the Titanic.
http://www.macworld.com/article/142148/2009/08/ninjawords_schiller.html?lsr…
I found this news article on Macworld that Phil Schiller contacted the
developer of the Ninjawords dictionary app for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
He said that the application was blocked because the app pulled the
information from Wiktionary, which he says it contains offensive
"urban slang" terns that traditional dictionaries (like paper) don't
have. He said that putting a 17+ rating would be all that he needed to
do. So I starting to wonder if Apple is starting to censor apps that
can access "offensive" words, not just Wiktionary, but all of the
Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Techman224
Hi,
I would like to ask legal advice and some parts of the GPL is not clear for me.
Let's suppose I'd like to create an Internet-facing dictionary
application (yes, a yet another one). I'd like to import the initial
data from a few sources, and convert it to my internal data structure.
Some of them are public domain, so nothing interesting there, but e.g.
Wiktionary is GPL-ed, which does impose a few questions for me. By the
way: my internal data structure won't be wikitext.
I'd like to enable my users to edit the content of my dictionary, I'd
like to reuse that content as I see fit (including commercial services
if I am ready to implement anything).
In this case, am I allowed to import Wiktionary as a data source? If
yes, what other constraints do I have (e.g. on editing, publishing,
using as part of the commercial service)? I have a few options here:
1. Importing and merging with the other sources.
2. Importing, not merging, but separately branching with the other
sources, treating the services and the user interface slightly
differently for the different databases (e.g. stating where it is GPL
and where it is our internal data with different use conditions).
3. Importing, not merging, not modifying. Using Wiktionary as a
read-only database, e.g. when the user searches my dictionary I can
provide results from my database and on the same page at the bottom
from the Wiktionary.
In what scenario do I need to re-publish my internal data structures
(either in wikitext or anything else)? I suppose #3 is a safe option
for me, but what other considerations do I have?
Thank you for the help! Best regards,
Istvan