From: jgoodwin@cns35.fnal.gov (John Goodwin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: FreeLore Project Announcement
Date: 21 Dec 1992 14:41 CST
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, AD/Controls
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Keywords: FreeLore, FreeLore Project
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The FreeLore Project is an initiative to create a
large quantity of educational material in freely
distributable form.  The project will almost certainly
use SGML/Hytime in some form.  Your input is crucial to
the success of this volunteer project.

====== INVITATION TO JOIN THE FREELORE PROJECT == 

FreeLore is useful information that is stored in
electronic or magnetic media and has a copyright
similar to that of GNU software.  FreeLore is not
a proprietary name or product, but an idea.  In
essence, it is the generalization of GNU software
to any kind of useful information.

You are hereby cordially invited to join the FreeLore
Project as a charter member.  

The provisional purpose of the FreeLore Project is
to organize volunteers to:

-- promote and encourage the production of free
educational and other useful materials
(``FreeLore'') in the electronic and
electronically-derived print media;

-- to define standards for FreeLore;

-- to promote active discussion of issues facing
the producers of FreeLore;

-- to capture and enhance (markup) public-domain data for
inclusion in FreeLore;

-- to provide information to persons interested in
using or writing FreeLore;

-- to promote efficient use of networks as a means of
providing access to FreeLore;

-- to organize and provide support services such
as archiving, markup, cataloguing,
self-registration of (self-)published materials,
and software maintenance;

-- to promote cataloguing standards for FreeLore;

-- to encourage electronic-media as the primary media
of scholarly discussion and journal publication;

-- to create copylefted or public-domain software for
creating, accessing, and viewing FreeLore;

-- to promote freedom of access to information in
whatever form generally.

Our first task will be to work out a real charter and
an agenda.  Discussion will be mostly by email, and
not necessarily conducted in alt.uu.future.

If you are interested, please send your contact
information, special concerns, and ways in which
you think you might be able to contribute to the
project to:

jgoodwin@adcalc.fnal.gov

Please indicate whether you have access to the
alt.uu.future newsgroup, or whether you obtained
this information by other means.
=========================================================
John Goodwin (in propria persona, nec pro Fermilab)
JGOODWIN@ADCALC.FNAL.GOV
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FreeLore I.    What is FreeLore? [Publius]
FreeLore II.   Who Needs FreeLore? [Publius]
FreeLore III.  What Is to Be Done? [Publius]
FreeLore IV.   Public Domain Markup and the Public Good [Publius]

The purpose of the FreeLore Tract series is to
promote discussion of the direction of quasi-
public domain information resources, especially 
those used for educational purposes, and to 
encourage the production of useful, free 
software and educational materials.

If you wish to contribute to this series, send
your article to the above email address.  We
reserve the right to edit for style, format, and
content, and to reject articles not congruent with
the goals of the series.  Edited articles will be 
returned to authors for approval before publication.
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