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Le 02/03/2017 à 16:16, LM a écrit :
Great, Laura, thanks.I was thinking about what would be a way to encourage and make it easier for educators and others interested in writing books, manuals, course materials to share those materials with the public under CC and Open Source licenses. Here's what I would like to see. It would be nice if there was a central web site that would host the materials. It would only accept CC and Open Source licenses (OSI approved). If the site could offer some options for ways users could donate to the authors they like, I think it would encourage more people to contribute their materials. The site could also offer services like editing and formatting (to PDF, EPUB, etc.) to help pay for itself. If that wasn't enough for funding, it could keep a small percentage of each donation to help cover costs. There are several commercial sites that host materials already, but most do not encourage Open Source or CC contributions. If one is interested in selling a book at a site, they're typically not going to use a Creative Commons license. There are sites where people share CC material, but the material is shared for free. I think having a way to give people monetary encouragement to share their works and making the process of sharing very easy for the authors, would encourage more people to give it a try to share more educational CC and Open Source works. I've been sharing materials on wikiversity, I enjoy it - books in French : alphabetisation - translations : public domain in English - writing on Vikidia : free courses but you're right, I'd love to find editors for my albums. Yours, annie from Bordeaux |