"World trade is really going to be in shipping around recipes, not cakes and cookies. In other words ... you don't need to have ships full of cars crossing each other in the Pacific, that's not world trade, that's just pure entropy. Most local areas can produce most of the stuff they need, and what needs to be world trade is really the ideas, the recipes, valuing each other's food and art and music and culture." - #HazelHenderson https://vimeo.com/28380649
Wendy is trying to refinance the condo, and it's like "I AM LOOKING FOR JOBS". I am particularly bad at contect-switching. I was always best at summer school because you only take a class or two and can focus. I think this was a large part of the failure of #FCM. I think diversification was good, but we didn't have enough people actively maintaining sites. We were always torn between #freesoftware and getting more content too. The #freeculture vs. #cc thing was an issue too. Ultimately, I made a lot of bad choices about people that should be involved. That work directly led to blocSonic, which could still prove to be a good thing. So far, I've been really disappointed in what we have been able to offer the CC community. However, since like 99.99% of what is on blocSonic is CC, it is additional exposure for those tracks. We are looking into doing sampler CDs of CC music in the vinyl we produce, so that will be a big step forward. Still, it would be nice to be putting actual dollars in musicians hands.
I have asked some months ago, but I think it is time to try again: I am looking for a native American/English partner to translate my novels & texts in English.Ofc, we would share the income from English patronage. I am fluent enough to check the work but not to do it myself. My work is based upon Crusade history, murder mysteries & short stories. Everything under BY-SA licence. Check the French content there : hexagora.fr
#til Legamus is a project similar to LibriVox where volumteers record audiobooks of works that are public domain in the EU (not US ... I know copyright sucks 😐). Its catalogue is much smaller then the one of LibriVox but seems to contain a few gems. 😁
Desproges disait qu’on aspirait toujours à faire partie d’une élite. Je crois être un des rares écrivains qui puisse taper sur son ordinateur : $ git commit -m"Rédaction premier jet Qit’a 089 - Entéléchie"
Je suis en effet un écrivain libriste spécialisé sur le roman historique du troisième quart du douzième siècle qui versionne ses écrits avec git.
Gratifiant, certes, mais la seule difficulté, c’est que ça ne recrute pas des masses sur mon créneau ;)
@emacsen I've been involved in CC stuff since my days with #Indymedia in the early 2000s. I've been looking at it from the POV of a hobby musician and live music fan, with lots of friends who are poor musicians (and photographers and film-makers etc). It seems to me there's a suite of tools that need to come together to make a #FreeCulture economy work. This including licenses, software, #BuskWare platforms (I've thought about crypto and #GNU#Taler) etc. The C-E Mark is part of it. @cwebber
I love the undraw.co project - a designer illustrated a bunch of use cases for tech projects to be used however people see fit. It even has a color toggle to adjust the illustrations to a particular color scheme.
Are there similar projects out there? I'd love to use and support designers contributing to #freesoftware / #freeculture
@wolftune that said, I totally support the project to define #FreeCulture by analogy to #FreeSoftware, so that Free Culture licenses exclude NC and ND clauses. I have a hard time thinking of a valid use case for the ND clause, and I'd support CC scrapping ND in version 5.0. They would need to reassure creators though, that the other licenses explicitly disallow passing off derivatives as the work of the original author.
The #NC clause in #CreativeCommons licensing is both a blessing and a curse. It addresses one of the most common reasons artists balk at #FreeCulture licensing ("but what if corporations profit from my work and I don't?"), and artists that dip their toes in with NC licenses often end up switch to a free culture license like BY-SA. But it also makes it more complicated to explain to people what they can do with the resulting commons of works. Pros and cons.