Here is another link to a group seeking to develop open content textbooks:
A bit of text from their site:
The mission of the open textbook project is to develop
openly copyrighted (copylefted) textbooks using the free software development model. The books, developed collaboratively, would be freely available to download, modify, print and distribute. Not only are textbooks unavailable to a great number of students in the US and abroad simply due to cost, few textbooks are universally suitable for courses in any given subject and many are simply sub-standard. The Open Textbook Project aims to address these issues by using a collaborative development model which has proven its effectiveness in the world of free software.
Development has begun!
We are currently working on the website and the
interactive tools with which individual textbook projects will be developed. We'll make a more formal announcement when there is more ware and less vapor.
And from the main page:
in Limine strives to find innovative and thoughtful ways
to improve education and the arts. Our efforts take the form of well-focused, low cost projects. Our organizational model is an incubator in which we nurture small, sometimes risky projects with administrative and financial support until they are able to stand on their own. We are constantly seeking new ideas. We don't aim to change the world (just small pieces of it).
Jimmy: Have you been in any more contact with those Cali folks, the Creative Commmons fellow or anyone else?
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