From bennetsen at gmail.com  Wed Jun  4 07:27:41 2008
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:27:41 -0700
Subject: [opensource] Workshop: Open Source, Open Access, Open Stanford
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Wanted to remind you all that this workshop is today.

Hope to see you there,

Henrik

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Henrik Bennetsen <bennetsen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *Please forward this email to all interested parties at Stanford and
> beyond*
>
> Stanford Open Source Lab <http://oslblog.stanford.edu/> would like to
> invite all interested parties to our fifth workshop:* **Open Source, Open
> Access, Open Stanford*. As our invited speaker we are happy to welcome
> John Willinsky
>
>    -
>
>    *When: Wednesday, June 4th at 12:30*
>    -
>
>    *Where: Room 127** on the ground floor of Wallenberg Hall<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&ie=UTF8&om=1&msa=0&msid=112200789092080371699.00043dbc7b062fc44f3bf&ll=37.428712,-122.168612&spn=0.007131,0.016823&z=17>(Bldg. 160), Stanford University
>    *
>
> This workshop will demonstrate the workings of a recently
> arrived-at-Stanford open source alternative to current economic models for
> scholarly communication, with the modest aim of moving more of research and
> scholarship into the public sphere on a global scale. Participants will be
> invited to kick the tires and look under the hood of the open source journal
> and conference management software, as well as to consider how we can do
> more to take Stanford public, in principle and practice.
>
> Speaker Bio:
>
> John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford
> University and director of the Public Knowledge Project<http://pkp.sfu.ca/>(PKP), which is a research and development initiative devoted to improving
> the public and scholarly quality of research. Much of his work is free to
> download through the project's website <http://pkp.sfu.ca>, including his
> book, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to<http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/457>(MIT Press, 2006), winner of two outstanding book awards, as well as PKP's
> award-winning open source software for journals <http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs>and
> conferences <http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs>.
>
> More practical stuff:
>
>    -
>
>    The workshop is free and open to all interested parties.
>    -
>
>    Feel very free to forward this email or link to our blog<http://oslblog.stanford.edu/>
>    .
>    -
>
>    No need to RSVP but you can write Henrik Bennetsen - hbe at stanford.edu if
>    you have any questions.
>    -
>
>    You can check out video the from our previous 4 workshops:
>
>    <https://www.stanford.edu/group/opensource/cgi-bin/blog/2008/01/06/aaron-swartz-of-the-open-library-project/>
>    - Aaron Swartz of the Open Library Project<https://www.stanford.edu/group/opensource/cgi-bin/blog/2008/01/06/aaron-swartz-of-the-open-library-project/>
>       - Wikiversity, Wikipedia and Participatory Learning<https://www.stanford.edu/group/opensource/cgi-bin/blog/2008/01/04/wikiversity-wikipedia-and-participatory-learning/>
>       - Bruce Perens: Innovation Goes Public<https://www.stanford.edu/group/opensource/cgi-bin/blog/2008/03/13/bruce-perens-talk-now-online/>
>       - Ahrash Bissell: ccLearn<https://www.stanford.edu/group/opensource/cgi-bin/blog/2008/05/12/video-of-cclearn-workshop-is-live/>
>
> We hope to see you there,
>
> Stanford Open Source Lab
>



-- 
Henrik Bennetsen
Research Director
Stanford Humanities Lab
Stanford University

Wallenberg Hall, 450 Serra Mall
Building 160, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2055, USA

bennetsen at gmail.com
Cell: +1 415.418.4042
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From bennetsen at gmail.com  Fri Jun  6 02:32:31 2008
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:32:31 -0700
Subject: [opensource] osalt.com
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> Find open source alternatives to your favourite commercial products. Browse
> through our software categories and compare pros and cons of both commercial
> products as well as open source software.


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From bennetsen at gmail.com  Mon Jun  9 13:22:05 2008
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:22:05 +0200
Subject: [opensource] Fwd: [cc-info] ccNewsletter #7 - Science Commons
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This CC newsletter has a fair bit on Science commons so I thought I would
share it with you lot :)

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From: Melissa Reeder <melissa at creativecommons.org>
Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Subject: [cc-info] ccNewsletter #7 - Science Commons
To: cc-info at lists.ibiblio.org


Dear All,

Creative Commons, as an organization, has undergone a significant transition
since the last ccNewsletter -- on April 1st, 2008, Lawrence Lessig stepped
down as CEO and Joi Ito, previously the Chairman of the Board, took his
place. It is an exciting time here at CC and this transition marks the
growth of CC from just an idea (which we were 5 1/2 years ago) to becoming a
fixture in the digital landscape -- and we can honestly attribute this
growth to the acceptance and evangelism of our active community of which you
all are a part. Thank you for sharing and supporting CC and helping us build
this global creative commons, which is so vital to the future of
participatory culture. Even though CC as an organization has changed, CC as
a philosophy and as a mission remains the same, and we hope that you will
continue to support CC as we work hard to continue providing you all with
the tools necessary to actualize this common goal.

This month's newsletter spotlights Science Commons, a project of Creative
Commons dedicated to bringing the sharing and reuse principles CC brought to
the world of culture, to scientific research. Their work focuses on
identifying unnecessary barriers to research, and developing strategies and
tools for faster, more efficient scientific research. The goal - to speed
the translation of data into discovery.
If you would prefer a hard copy, download the pdf (designed by CC
Philippines Project Leads and CC's Senior Designer Alex Roberts) here:
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/newsletter/ccnewsletter7.pdf

No one can explain Science Commons better than the VP, John Wilbanks, so
without further adieu...

Best,

Melissa Reeder


===Inside Scoop - Science Commons==

*A word from the VP of Science:  John Wilbanks*

I'm going to take full advantage of the opportunity to address the broader
Creative Commons audience on the topic of Science Commons. Many of the CC
community don't know a lot about us ? who we are, what we do, and why we
think science is such a remarkable place for the commons. Hopefully we can
address some of that knowledge gap with this issue of the CC newsletter.

There are clear parallels between the advance of the control philosophy in
culture and science. As in culture, an interlocking set of science-related
judicial, legislative, and social was eroding ancient traditions of
information distribution and reuse. Costs were rising, not dropping, with
the advent of more efficient network technologies for publishing. The Web we
built for culture and commerce was not robust enough to handle the demands
of high-throughput research. And in general, the kinds of innovation
explosions we associate with user-driven culture and commerce were nowhere
to be found in the scientific web.

Something has to give. We need cures for diseases, understanding of global
problems like climate change, and better government science policy. But the
question was how we got there ? and how a commons fit into the picture.

That's where we come in at Science Commons.

We're a project of Creative Commons ? that is, we work for CC just like the
culture folks, and we have our email addresses @creativecommons.org. We have
five full-time employees and four part-time employees, and we're hosted at
the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in
Cambridge, MA, USA. We raise our own dedicated project funds, and we work on
taking the ideas at the heart of Creative Commons ? standard licenses that
create sharing regimes, implemented in good technology, and commons-based
policy ? into the sciences. Specifically, we work on making the "research
cycle" go as fast as it can go.

By the research cycle, we mean the constant generation, distribution, and
reuse of knowledge that forms the heart of the scientific method. In a
network world, the research cycle depends on digital technologies at every
step, from the scholarly literature (search and access stages) to the
petabytes of data (again, search and access stages) to the digital
descriptions of non-digital research tools like cell lines and recombinant
DNA. At each of these stages we can apply theories of the commons to remove
barriers to research and accelerate the pace of science.

I've written previously about the commons as a key weapon against
complexity, which I think is the key problem of our time in the sciences.

It's the abject complexity of the human system and the reality of the
knowledge gap about the system. Human bodies make microprocessors look like
children's toys in terms of complexity. And those bodies exist in a
constantly changing set of environmental factors.

One of the reasons I believe so deeply in the commons approach (by which i
mean:  contractually constructed regimes that tilt the field towards sharing
and reuse, technological enablements that make public knowledge easy to find
and use, and default policy rules that create incentives to share and reuse)
is that I think it is one of the only non-miraculous ways to defeat
complexity. If we can get more people working on individual issues ? which
are each alone not so complex ? and the outputs of research snap together,
and smart people can work on the compiled output as well ? then it stands to
reason that the odds of meaningful discoveries increase in spite of overall
systemic complexity.

This is not easy as far as solutions go. It requires open access to content,
journals and databases both. It requires that database creators think about
their products as existing in a network, and provide hooks for the network,
not just query access. It requires that funders pay for biobanks to store
research tools. It requires that pharmaceutical companies take a hard look
at their private assets and build some trust in entities that make sharing
possible. It requires that scientists share their stuff (this is the
elephant in the lab, frankly). It requires that universities track sharing
as a metric of scientific and societal impact.

If we're going to attack the cost of drug creation and marketing, we have to
attack the failures at the source ? the knowledge gap created by complexity.
Creating a robust public domain and knowledge commons ? with the attendant
increase in scientists who have the freedom and tools to practice
collaborative science, all over the world -is one of the only clear methods
we have at our disposal.

And if we can actually get the price point down to $100M, or $50M, the game
is changed forever. Venture capitalists can fund a drug, as can foundations,
at that price point. Prize models suddenly become very, very workable. And
big pharma finally would see meaningful competition.

Complexity is the enemy. Distributed innovation, built on a commons, is a
strong tonic against that enemy.


Upcoming Events
========

*ESOF 2008:  Collaborating for the Future of Open Science*
by Donna Wentworth

We're reaching an inflection point in the global movement to implement
"open" approaches to scientific research -- approaches with tremendous
potential for accelerating the translation of basic research to useful
discoveries like new drugs and therapies. These approaches are often
referred to collectively as "open science," yet both the term and its
underlying principles have yet to be defined. This hamstrings efforts to
connect the important initiatives that are working to further the
development of open science in nations across the globe.

We now have the tools to bring together open research and data from around
the world, embedded with the freedoms necessary to make use of it. What we
need are shared principles for developing systems that can work together, so
we can harness network effects and increase the value of each contribution
to the open knowledge commons.

This July, Science Commons is convening a free and open workshop in
Barcelona, Spain, to discuss and define the basic principles of open
science, including identifying the key tenets for a system to be recognized
as an open science system. Our aim is to conclude the workshop with a set of
principles for open science that can effectively guide the development of a
global, collaborative infrastructure for knowledge sharing that speeds
discovery and saves lives.

The event, "Policy and Technology for e-Science," is one of three satellite
events preceding the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF), which is among the
largest and most well-known conferences in Europe on science and technology.
The workshop will take place July 16 -17, 2008, at the Institut d'Estudis
Catalans. Our co-sponsors are the Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition (SPARC), the Center for the Study of the Public Domain
at Duke University (CSPD) and the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC).

In preparation for the workshop, we have been working with a distinguished
steering committee that includes representatives from the European
Commission, CERN, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and
Creative Commons International (CCi), as well as leading open access
advocates, text-mining experts and academics engaged in these discussions in
Europe.

We hope to bring together thought leaders, policymakers and representatives
from the major research foundations for a discussion that will significantly
further shared goals. If you would like to attend, please visit the
registration page <
http://sciencecommons.org/events/esof-satellite-event/registration/>. The
event is open to the public and free, but seating is limited. For more
information, visit <http://sciencecommons.org/events/esof-satellite-event>.


Science Commons News
========

*The following is an excerpt from the whitepaper -"Health Commons:  Therapy
Development in a Networked World - an Introduction and Overview" co-authored
by John Wilbanks and Marty Tenenbaum. To read the paper in its entirety,
visit <http://sciencecommons.org/resources/readingroom/>*

*Introducing the Health Commons*
*a project of Science Commons, Collabrx, Public Library of Science, and
CommerceNet*

The Health Commons: Solving the Health Research Puzzle

The pharmaceutical industry is at a crossroads. Despite revolutionary
advances in molecular biology that have made genetic decoding routine, the
time from gene to cure still stands at 17 years. High-throughput screening
methods allow us to test the efficacy of millions of compounds against a
molecular target in a single week; but the odds of one of those compounds
making it through the development pipeline and becoming a drug are less than
1/1,000,000. A well-funded group starting today, using the traditional model
of drug development, has a very slim chance at getting a drug to market by
2025.

The time has come to change the way we cure disease. We are no longer asking
whether a gene or a molecule is critical to a particular biological process;
rather, we are discovering whole networks of molecular and cellular
interactions that contribute to disease. And soon, we will have such
information about individuals, rather than the population as a whole.
Biomedical knowledge is exploding, and yet the system to capture that
knowledge and translate it into saving human lives still relies on an
antiquated and risky strategy of focusing the vast resources of a few
pharmaceutical companies on just a handful of disease targets.

The Health Commons Vision

Imagine a virtual marketplace or ecosystem where participants share data,
knowledge, materials and services to accelerate research. The components
might include databases on the results of chemical assays, toxicity screens,
and clinical trials; libraries of drugs and chemical compounds; repositories
of biological materials (tissue samples, cell lines, molecules),
computational models predicting drug efficacies or side effects, and
contract services for high-throughput genomics and proteomics, combinatorial
drug screening, animal testing, biostatistics, and more. The resources
offered through the Commons might not necessarily be free, though many could
be. However, all would be available under standard pre-negotiated terms and
conditions and with standardized data formats that eliminate the
debilitating delays, legal wrangling and technical incompatibilities that
frustrate scientific collaboration today.

We envision a Commons where a researcher will be able to order everything
needed to replicate a published experiment as easily as ordering DVDs from
Amazon. A Commons where one can create a workflow to exploit replicated
results on an industrial scale ? searching the world's biological
repositories for relevant materials; routing them to the best labs for
molecular profiling; forwarding the data to a team of bioinfomaticians for
collaborative analysis of potential drug targets; and finally hiring top
service providers to run drug screens against those targets; with everything
? knowledge, data, and materials ? moving smoothly from one provider to the
next, monitored and tracked with Fed-Ex precision; where the workflow
scripts themselves can become part of the Commons, for others to reuse and
improve. Health Commons' marketplace will slash the time, cost, and risk of
developing treatments for diseases. Individual researchers, institutions,
and companies will be able to publish information about their expertise and
resources so that others in the community can readily discover and use them.
Core competencies, from clinical trial design to molecular profiling, will
be packaged as turnkey services and made available over the Net. The Commons
will serve as the public-domain, non-profit hub, with third-parties
providing value added services that facilitate information access,
communication, and collaboration.

What is Health Commons?

Health Commons is a coalition of parties interested in changing the way
basic science is translated into the understanding and improvement of human
health. Coalition members agree to share data, knowledge, and services under
standardized terms and conditions by committing to a set of common
technologies, digital information standards, research materials, contracts,
workflows, and software. These commitments ensure that knowledge, data,
materials and tools can move seamlessly from partner to partner across the
entire drug discovery chain. They enable participants to offer standardized
services, ranging from simple molecular assays to complex drug synthesis
solutions, that others can discover in directories and integrate into their
own processes to expedite development ? or assemble like LEGO blocks to
create new services.

The Health Commons is too complex for any one organization or company to
create. It requires a coalition of partners across the spectrum. It is also
too complex for public, private, or non-profit organizations alone -
reinventing therapy development for the networked world requires, from the
beginning, a commitment to public-private partnership. Only through a
public-private partnership can the key infrastructure of the Commons be
created: the investments in the public domain of information and materials
will only be realized if that public domain is served by a private set of
systems integrators and materials, tools and service providers motivated by
profit. And in turn, the long-term success of the private sector depends on
a growing, robust, and self-replenishing public domain of data, research
tools, and open source software.

* Towards Research in a Box - by Donna Wentworth
<
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/05/13/towards-research-in-a-box/
>

* How to Free Your Facts - by Donna Wentworth
<
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/05/12/how-to-free-your-facts/
>

* Science Commons & SPARC Release Guide for Creating Open Access Policies at
Institutions - by Donna Wentworth
<
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/04/28/science-commons-and-sparc-release-guide-for-creating/
>

* Nguyen on Keeping Data Open & Free - by Donna Wentworth
<
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/04/23/nguyen-on-keeping-data-open-and-free/
>

===And now for other Creative Commons News===

CC News
* Creative Common Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8213
* CC0 beta/discussion draft 2
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8211
* search.creativecommons.org screencast and i18n
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/829
*ccMixter RFP
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8323

CCi News
* CC Licensing Guidebook for Government Agencies and NGOs
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8200
* Transition at Creative Commons Switzerland
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8209
* 2nd Blender Peach Open Source Movie Premiere and Economies of the Commons
in Amsterdam
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8203
* Ecuador encourages learning, research, and creativity with localized CC
licenses
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8216
* Mayer and Bettle: the Animation Sequel about CC
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8231
* Scripta: CC Latin America
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8246
* CC Guatemala enters public discussion
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8254
* Building an Australasian Commons
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8280
* Grant Competition to Support CC Licensing Adoption in the South Caucasus
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8294
* Malaysian Artistes for Unity
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8297

CC Points of Interest
* Flickr Video
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8205
* Magnatune does good via the Amarok media player
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8256
* Custom CC Search
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8258
* Another Nine Inch Nails album out under a Creative Commons license
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8267
* The (potential) U.S. copyright czar and you
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8282
* VIA added
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8320
* Steal this Footage added
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8318

ccLearn
* ccLearn Monthly Update - April 15th
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8234
* "Attribution Only" as Default Policy?Otago Polytechnic on the How and Why
of CC BY
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8235
* LearnHub Integrates CC Licensing
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8236
eIFL.net on Open Access, Open Education, and Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8247
* ccLearn Monthly Update 21 May 2008
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8303


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From jrjacobs at stanford.edu  Wed Jun 11 08:12:15 2008
From: jrjacobs at stanford.edu (James Jacobs)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:12:15 -0700
Subject: [opensource] ECAR Bulletin on Large-Scale Open Source E-Learning
Message-ID: <484FEB4F.9080602@stanford.edu>

i thought this might be of interest. document attached.

Title:	Large-Scale Open Source E-Learning Systems at Open University UK 
(ID: ERB0812)

This ECAR research bulletin examines the factors leading to the 
selection of the open source learning management system at the Open 
University, details the many aspects of development work that had to be 
undertaken, and describes the issues involved for institutions 
participating in an open source community. It also looks at some of the 
many business and cultural challenges the institution has faced, and at 
how faculty are being encouraged to move toward a model of education 
incorporating increasing amounts of e-learning content and activity.

Citation for this work: Sclater, Niall. ?Large-Scale Open Source 
E-Learning Systems at Open University UK? (Research Bulletin, Issue 12). 
Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2008, available from 
http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

James


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> *Abstract:* This ECAR research bulletin examines the factors leading 
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> Open University, details the many aspects of development work that had 
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From bennetsen at gmail.com  Wed Jun 11 11:09:23 2008
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:09:23 +0200
Subject: [opensource] Next lab meeting!
Message-ID: <8bf04b5b0806111109v6cadc4au6e73f7d8d35e0797@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all OS lab folks,

our waaay overdue next lab meeting has now been scheduled. Time and place:

   - This coming Tuesday the 17th from 3:30 - 5.
   - The Learning Theater on the ground floor of Wallenberg
Hall<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&ie=UTF8&om=1&msa=0&msid=112200789092080371699.00043dbc7b062fc44f3bf&ll=37.428712,-122.168612&spn=0.007131,0.016823&z=17>(Bldg.
160)

Please join us and help figure out where to take our little lab next!

Henrik
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From jrjacobs at stanford.edu  Wed Jun 11 13:13:52 2008
From: jrjacobs at stanford.edu (James Jacobs)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:13:52 -0700
Subject: [opensource] Next lab meeting!
In-Reply-To: <8bf04b5b0806111109v6cadc4au6e73f7d8d35e0797@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8bf04b5b0806111109v6cadc4au6e73f7d8d35e0797@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <48503200.3070002@stanford.edu>

thanks for doing that Henrik! agenda-setting at that time?

james

Henrik Bennetsen wrote:
> Hi all OS lab folks,
> 
> our waaay overdue next lab meeting has now been scheduled. Time and place:
> 
>     * This coming Tuesday the 17th from 3:30 - 5.
>     * The Learning Theater on the ground floor of Wallenberg Hall
>       <http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&ie=UTF8&om=1&msa=0&msid=112200789092080371699.00043dbc7b062fc44f3bf&ll=37.428712,-122.168612&spn=0.007131,0.016823&z=17>
>       (Bldg. 160)
> 
> Please join us and help figure out where to take our little lab next!
> 
> Henrik
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> opensource mailing list
> opensource at lists.stanford.edu
> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource

-- 
James R. Jacobs
International Documents Librarian
Green Library
Stanford University
(650) 725-1030
jrjacobs at stanford.edu
http://jonssonlibrary.stanford.edu
AIM: LibrarianJames Jabber: radlib at jabber.org

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From bennetsen at gmail.com  Thu Jun 12 04:20:17 2008
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:20:17 +0200
Subject: [opensource] Next lab meeting!
In-Reply-To: <48503200.3070002@stanford.edu>
References: <8bf04b5b0806111109v6cadc4au6e73f7d8d35e0797@mail.gmail.com>
	<48503200.3070002@stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <8bf04b5b0806120420s2bfb564cmca0c485fa9d5371e@mail.gmail.com>

I will take a few notes feel free to bring your own and make some
suggestions in this thread.

Henrik



On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:13 PM, James Jacobs <jrjacobs at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> thanks for doing that Henrik! agenda-setting at that time?
>
> james
>
> Henrik Bennetsen wrote:
> > Hi all OS lab folks,
> >
> > our waaay overdue next lab meeting has now been scheduled. Time and
> place:
> >
> >     * This coming Tuesday the 17th from 3:30 - 5.
> >     * The Learning Theater on the ground floor of Wallenberg Hall
> >       <
> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&ie=UTF8&om=1&msa=0&msid=112200789092080371699.00043dbc7b062fc44f3bf&ll=37.428712,-122.168612&spn=0.007131,0.016823&z=17
> >
> >       (Bldg. 160)
> >
> > Please join us and help figure out where to take our little lab next!
> >
> > Henrik
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > opensource mailing list
> > opensource at lists.stanford.edu
> > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource
>
> --
> James R. Jacobs
> International Documents Librarian
> Green Library
> Stanford University
> (650) 725-1030
> jrjacobs at stanford.edu
> http://jonssonlibrary.stanford.edu
> AIM: LibrarianJames Jabber: radlib at jabber.org
>
> "A library is an arsenal of liberty." Anonymous
>
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> _______________________________________________
> opensource mailing list
> opensource at lists.stanford.edu
> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource
>



-- 
Henrik Bennetsen
Research Director
Stanford Humanities Lab
Stanford University

Wallenberg Hall, 450 Serra Mall
Building 160, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2055, USA

bennetsen at gmail.com
Cell: +1 415.418.4042
Fax: +1 650.725.0192
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From bennetsen at gmail.com  Tue Jun 17 11:44:32 2008
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:44:32 -0700
Subject: [opensource] Next lab meeting!
In-Reply-To: <8bf04b5b0806111109v6cadc4au6e73f7d8d35e0797@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8bf04b5b0806111109v6cadc4au6e73f7d8d35e0797@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8bf04b5b0806171144n5dea2842t5625bffd970035e9@mail.gmail.com>

A little reminder about our meeting this afternoon.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Henrik

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Henrik Bennetsen <bennetsen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all OS lab folks,
>
> our waaay overdue next lab meeting has now been scheduled. Time and place:
>
>    - This coming Tuesday the 17th from 3:30 - 5.
>    - The Learning Theater on the ground floor of Wallenberg Hall<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&ie=UTF8&om=1&msa=0&msid=112200789092080371699.00043dbc7b062fc44f3bf&ll=37.428712,-122.168612&spn=0.007131,0.016823&z=17>(Bldg. 160)
>
> Please join us and help figure out where to take our little lab next!
>
> Henrik
>
>


-- 
Henrik Bennetsen
Research Director
Stanford Humanities Lab
Stanford University

Wallenberg Hall, 450 Serra Mall
Building 160, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2055, USA

bennetsen at gmail.com
Cell: +1 415.418.4042
Fax: +1 650.725.0192
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From tec at stanford.edu  Tue Jun 17 12:23:28 2008
From: tec at stanford.edu (Thomas Carlson)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:23:28 -0700
Subject: [opensource] Next lab meeting!
In-Reply-To: <8bf04b5b0806171144n5dea2842t5625bffd970035e9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8bf04b5b0806111109v6cadc4au6e73f7d8d35e0797@mail.gmail.com>
	<8bf04b5b0806171144n5dea2842t5625bffd970035e9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <DF1FA13C-283B-4238-8300-05E1597B8B81@stanford.edu>

I'll try to make it. Lots of last minute meetings today.

Sorry I had to leave last meeting. My boss had a meeting setup at 1 pm.

Cheers,

T

Sent from my mobile device
http://helpsu.stanford.edu is the best way to reach help

On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:44 AM, "Henrik Bennetsen" <bennetsen at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> A little reminder about our meeting this afternoon.
>
> Looking forward to seeing you there!
>
> Henrik
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Henrik Bennetsen <bennetsen at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Hi all OS lab folks,
>
> our waaay overdue next lab meeting has now been scheduled. Time and  
> place:
> This coming Tuesday the 17th from 3:30 - 5.
> The Learning Theater on the ground floor of Wallenberg Hall (Bldg.  
> 160)
> Please join us and help figure out where to take our little lab next!
>
> Henrik
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Henrik Bennetsen
> Research Director
> Stanford Humanities Lab
> Stanford University
>
> Wallenberg Hall, 450 Serra Mall
> Building 160, Stanford University
> Stanford, CA 94305-2055, USA
>
> bennetsen at gmail.com
> Cell: +1 415.418.4042
> Fax: +1 650.725.0192
> _______________________________________________
> opensource mailing list
> opensource at lists.stanford.edu
> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource
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From davies at csli.stanford.edu  Tue Jun 17 18:53:55 2008
From: davies at csli.stanford.edu (Todd Davies)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:53:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [opensource] Stanford FLOSS projects
In-Reply-To: <DF1FA13C-283B-4238-8300-05E1597B8B81@stanford.edu>
References: <8bf04b5b0806111109v6cadc4au6e73f7d8d35e0797@mail.gmail.com>
	<8bf04b5b0806171144n5dea2842t5625bffd970035e9@mail.gmail.com>
	<DF1FA13C-283B-4238-8300-05E1597B8B81@stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806171738380.8825@symsyspg.Stanford.EDU>

I promised James I would start a list of open source projects at Stanford, 
so here goes. Also, has anyone proposed merging with the Stanford Linux 
Users and Open Source Group (http://sulug.stanford.edu/index.php)?

First, there are 17 Stanford projects on Sourceforge. See 
http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=stanford&type_of_search=soft&pmode=0&limit=20

Somoe other projects:

PKP - The Public Knowledge Project is a research and development 
initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of 
academic research through the development of innovative online publishing 
and knowledge-sharing environments. (http://pkp.sfu.ca/)

The Stanford SRP Authentication Project (http://srp.stanford.edu/)

Protege - a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base 
framework (http://protege.stanford.edu/)

SULinux - the version of the Linux operating system that is tailored for 
use on some campus computers.  The University does not officially provide 
support for it, however, so the OSG tries to do what it can. 
(http://sulinux.stanford.edu/)

Sakai Project - Collaboration and learning environment for education 
(http://www.sakaiproject.org/) [multi-institutional, Stanford was one of 
the original partners]

LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe 
(http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home)

Simbios - Physics Based Simulation of Biological Structures 
(http://simbios.stanford.edu/)

d.tools - Enabling rapid prototyping for physical interaction design 
(http://hci.stanford.edu/dtools/)

Lingo - Linguistic Grammars Online (http://lingo.stanford.edu)

SEP - Stanford Exploration Project 
(http://sepwww.stanford.edu/software/septour.html)

Deme/Groupspace.org - web-based groupware (http://groupspace.org/) - 
in hibernation pending release of a Python/Django-based rewrite

Please add any others you know about.

Todd


From jrjacobs at stanford.edu  Tue Jun 17 20:27:31 2008
From: jrjacobs at stanford.edu (James Jacobs)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:27:31 -0700
Subject: [opensource] open source meeting minutes
Message-ID: <485880A3.7030303@stanford.edu>

Hi all,

meeting minutes are up on the wiki. please add stuff as I'm sure I 
didn't get everything.

https://www.stanford.edu/group/opensource/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php?title=Meeting-url

james

-- 
James R. Jacobs
International Documents Librarian
Green Library
Stanford University
(650) 725-1030
jrjacobs at stanford.edu
http://jonssonlibrary.stanford.edu
AIM: LibrarianJames Jabber: radlib at jabber.org

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From bennetsen at gmail.com  Sat Jun 21 09:30:36 2008
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:30:36 -0700
Subject: [opensource] Harrison Owen: Open Space Technology author evening,
	July 22, Fort Mason
Message-ID: <8bf04b5b0806210930h761c547fp633374efb8527c9@mail.gmail.com>

---==> Begin Forwarded Text:

From: Jeff Aitken <magic.teams at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:18:33 -0700

Global innovator, consultant and storyteller
Harrison Owen
signs and discusses his new book

Open Space Technology
A User's Guide
Third Edition, Revised and Expanded (Berrett-Koehler 2008)

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 7:00 ? 9:00 pm
Golden Gate Room, Fort Mason Center, Building A

Free admission; light refreshments; donations accepted. Signed books
available for purchase.

Rsvp to Jeff:
magic.teams at hotmail.com
More info: www.wosonos2008.org/author_evening.html

Open Space Technology is one way to enable all kinds of people, in any
kind of organization, to create inspired meetings and events. Over the
last 20+ years, it has also become clear that opening space, as an
intentional leadership practice, can create inspired organizations, where
ordinary people work together to create extraordinary results with
regularity. Join us for a special evening of conversation with Harrison
Owen, the originator of the Open Space process.

Open Space Technology: A User's Guide details all the practical
considerations necessary to create Open Space. Owen examines what types of
situations are appropriate for Open Space and what types are not. He goes
on to look at nuts-and-bolts issues such as supplies, logistics, who
should be involved, and how to go about getting them there.

This Third Edition adds a survey of the current status of Open Space
Technology around the world, an updated section on the latest available
technology for report writing (a key aspect of the Open Space process),
and an updated list of resources.

Harrison Owen is the winner of the 2008 Sharing the Wealth award from the
OD Network. The award honors the memory of Kathie Dannemiller, a major
force in the founding of OD Network, and the author of a Berrett-Koehler
book, Whole Scale Change. It is given to "an individual whose achievements
demonstrate their values, innovation and generosity."

Thanks to Berrett-Koehler for generously underwriting a portion of this
author evening.

Part of a series of events in San Francisco:
Open Space Technology Training: July 21-22
World Open Space on Open Space conference: July 23-26
For more information see www.wosonos2008.org.
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From bennetsen at gmail.com  Tue Jun 24 06:10:44 2008
From: bennetsen at gmail.com (Henrik Bennetsen)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:10:44 -0400
Subject: [opensource] Open Source Living
Message-ID: <8bf04b5b0806240610m3b6ddc4ateda5eb8512457d6a@mail.gmail.com>

>
> Open Source Living is a dynamic archive of Open Source software (OSS)
> spanning all major platforms, inclusive of small to large scale projects. It
> aims to introduce and inform new users about viable OSS alternatives to
> corporate, closed source software.
>
> Through its Community Forums <http://www.osliving.com/community> and
> exciting multi-authored publication, Sourced<http://www.osliving.com/sourced>,
> OS Living houses informed discussion on issues of import in the Open Source
> field.
>
> <http://www.opensource.org/>OS Living adheres to the Open Source
> Initiative's definition of OSS. Each software item included in the archive
> endeavours to conform to OSI guidelines on standards and licensing.
>
http://osliving.com

-- 
Henrik Bennetsen
Research Director
Stanford Humanities Lab
Stanford University

Wallenberg Hall, 450 Serra Mall
Building 160, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2055, USA

bennetsen at gmail.com
Cell: +1 415.418.4042
Fax: +1 650.725.0192
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From marco.wise at stanford.edu  Wed Jun 25 16:30:04 2008
From: marco.wise at stanford.edu (Marco Wise)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:30:04 -0700
Subject: [opensource] Stanford FLOSS projects
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806171738380.8825@symsyspg.Stanford.EDU>
References: <8bf04b5b0806111109v6cadc4au6e73f7d8d35e0797@mail.gmail.com>
	<8bf04b5b0806171144n5dea2842t5625bffd970035e9@mail.gmail.com>
	<DF1FA13C-283B-4238-8300-05E1597B8B81@stanford.edu>
	<Pine.LNX.4.64.0806171738380.8825@symsyspg.Stanford.EDU>
Message-ID: <C51627C7-3591-462F-900D-8746EFEE4985@stanford.edu>

Hi,

On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Todd Davies wrote:

> I promised James I would start a list of open source projects at  
> Stanford,
> so here goes.

Thanks Todd! I added them to the wiki at:

https://www.stanford.edu/group/opensource/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php?title=Open_source_projects

> Also, has anyone proposed merging with the Stanford Linux
> Users and Open Source Group (http://sulug.stanford.edu/index.php)?

Not sure. Thomas Carlson is the webmaster for their site and he's a  
member of OSL. Thomas?

- marco


From jrjacobs at stanford.edu  Wed Jun 25 22:06:22 2008
From: jrjacobs at stanford.edu (James Jacobs)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:06:22 -0700
Subject: [opensource] Open Source Data Recovery Tools To The Rescue
Message-ID: <486323CE.8020708@stanford.edu>

Let's hope y'all never have to do this, but just in case:

http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403254

james

-- 
James R. Jacobs
International Documents Librarian
Green Library
Stanford University
(650) 725-1030
jrjacobs at stanford.edu
http://jonssonlibrary.stanford.edu
AIM: LibrarianJames Jabber: radlib at jabber.org

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