Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Becta's Open Source Schools "Innovation Seminar"

[Tim Dobson]

I have some answers. These are the plain answers without my opinion. I'm 
a bit busy right now listening. :)

Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Tim Dobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Is the proposed "National Digital Resource Bank" - being built by a north
> > west based company going to be a sham or really useful? According to a
> > leaflet I managed to dig out it said it was going to be Creative Commons
> > licenced but fail to say which licence, which makes that assertion almost
> > useless.
>
> +1
>
> license clarity is really crucial
>
> it's probably worthwhile asking about license compatibility

Content added by Local Education Authorities, Schools etc will be 
licenced by default as CC-BY-NC-SA

Content added by other people may be differently but it will be clearly 
listed on the download page.

They are very clear that they want "open content licences" - don't ask 
me what that *actually* means but they say "sharing" is key.

All content is taken in and is Quality Assessed, tagged and mapped etc 
by the administrators.

> "The National Digital Resource Bank is set to become the largest
> project in UK Education. Using a licence free product developed in
> Spain. ndrb will provide Local Authorities with the largest collection
> of open content available that is compatible with all commonly used
> Learning Platforms."
>
> huh?
>
> "licence free product" ...?
>
> is this free software? public domain? freeware? royalty free?

They mean, they are using: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrega 
(http://www.proyectoagrega.es/default/Inicio ) - GPL as far as i can see.

They are new to free software but the person talking seems to know what 
she is talking about.

Sirius - run by Mark Taylor of ex-OSC fame - is developing the system 
with them.

I think they'd be open to discussion.

Tim