RE: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia

[Bill Volk]

I agree with Seth.  Merge the projects.

Bill Volk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Behalf Of Seth Nickell
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:24 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia
> 
> 
> > 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>