Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia

[Seth Nickell]

> Out of my hands... that's a new story for me.

If this is setup in the normal arrangement of a GNU maintainer...you
have enourmous leeway in how the project is organized and the directions
it takes. You can't change past interactions, but you (Hector) can aim
the boat.

> We can change our name.

Keeping the projects sepearate should not be the defacto path. It would
seem to me that the defacto solution whould be merging the projects; the
alternative, keeping them seperate, requiring some compelling argument.
The projects seem compatible not just legally, but even in spirit. Each
has important things to contribute to the process of creating such a
work, and it would be a sad thing if we were unable to pool our
resources (especially considering the age of GNUpedia ;-). GNUpedia will
undoubtedly find support from the free software community, and will draw
upon the energy and tools found therein. Nupedia appears to have
connections into the academic world, which I think are very important in
the creation of thorough, insightful articles.

>From Nupedia:
"Suppose scholars the world over were to learn of a serious online
encyclopedia effort the results of which were not proprietary to the
encyclopedists, but were freely distributable under an open content
license in virtually any desired medium."

>From GNUpedia project announcement:
"To ensure that the web develops toward the best and most natural
outcome, 
where it becomes a free encyclopedia, we must make a conscious effort to 
prevent deliberate sequestration of the encyclopedic and educational 
information on the net...The free encyclopedia will provide an
alternative 
to the restricted ones that media corporations will write."

-Seth