Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Important decisions should not be rushed

[Bob Dodd]

--- Hector Facundo Arena <address@hidden> wrote:

> 3. As the title says: "Important decisions should not be rushed". We
> have to define how both projects will work. I'm asking *ALL* the 
> members of this mailing list to suggest ideas on this issue.

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Hi Hector,

It would be possible to separate this project into 3 separate,
cooperating projects:

1. Design, implementation, and running of a repository of "articles".
Everything GPL'd, naturally. What we consider an "article" is another
matter... 

2. Design & implementation of an article-management-system, that
allowed for a user-definable review cycle, and user-definable
organisation of material. So, basically we provide a meta-language to
describe an encyclopedia and the management of its content. We also
provide tools to execute this meta-model, which, as a minimum, uses
project (1) the "repository", as the source of libarary information
(but not exclusively: we should consider the underlying source(s) as
plug-in modules). Everything GPL'd, naturally.

3. Design, impelementation, and running of a free encyclopedia using
the meta-model of project(2), and utilising the repository of project
(1) for it's source materal. The submission/review lifecycle would
conform exactly to RHS's and Hector's view of what a free encyclopedia
should be.  The libarary content, and any extension to projects (1) and
(2) would be GPL's, naturally.

The repository design and content are available for any other project
to re-use/join, so long as the usual GPL restrictions are followed. So,
any of the digital libararies and free encyclopedias would be free to
make use of it as they saw fit.

The meta-model and tools are available for any other project to
re-use/join, so long as the usual GPL restrictions are followed. This
means that, for example, Nupedia would be welcome to re-use our tools,
and refine the metal-model to match their own definition of an
encyclopedia and it's review lifecycle. They would also have the
opportunity, if they so wished, to make use of project(1) as a direct
plug-in. They would also be able to write their own plug-in in order to
access other sources of information should they wish. We would have no
copyright control over any plug-in, but the standard GPL would apply to
the tools and the definition of the meta-language.

I think that gets what most people want: a core repository that can be
re-used or shared by many encyclopedias/libraries/almanacs, some decent
encyclopedia management tools that can also be re-used, and a free
encyclopedia for those unhappy with the Nupedia (and others) submission
system.

/Bob Dodd













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