[Noisebridge-discuss] Anyone heard about freedomdefined.org, and especially freedomdefined.org/OSHW

[Erik Moeller]

Hello,

what's the question? :-) I wasn't actually even aware that the OSHW
folks had started drafting on the freedomdefined.org site, but it's
nice to see the wiki being used for more than one definition.

All best,
Erik

2010/7/16 Asheesh Laroia <noisebridge at asheesh.org>:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Michael Shiloh wrote:
>
>> I can't tell if they have serious traction or not.
>>
>> They do have backing from Creative Commons, which is strong. And the
>> list of endorsements seems to come from all the right players.
>
> Freedom Defined's history is pretty well summed-up at
> http://freedomdefined.org/History . It started as an ad-hoc project of a
> Wikipedian, and it grew to include Free Software Foundation and Creative
> Commons people.
>
> I didn't think Freedom Defined was currently very active , and the OSHW
> defition's forum <http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/forum/> doesn't show a
> lot of discusison activity. But then again it has a lot of press coverage,
> like http://boingboing.net/2010/07/13/open-source-hardware-3.html .
>
> I'm CC:ing Erik and Mako, two of those Freedom Defined people.
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
> --
> Is knowledge knowable?  If not, how do we know that?
>



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