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		<title>ipv6 arrives at ibiblio</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/197</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to UNC&#8217;s network master, Jim Gogan, for creating an ibiblio VLAN this morning and enabling ipv6 support for us in the process!
ipv6 in the ibiblio office heralds the return of WCPE&#8217;s ipv6 Internet stream, accessible via http://audio-ipv6.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.mp3
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many thanks to UNC&#8217;s network master, <a href="https://s4.its.unc.edu/UNCExperts/uncexperts/getperson?ID=RSFTCERFD">Jim Gogan</a>, for creating an ibiblio VLAN this morning and enabling ipv6 support for us in the process!</p>
<p>ipv6 in the ibiblio office heralds the return of WCPE&#8217;s ipv6 Internet stream, accessible via <a href="http://audio-ipv6.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.mp3">http://audio-ipv6.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.mp3</a></p>
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		<title>ibiblio serving more content over bittorrent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ibiblio is pleased to announce the addition of four new contributing projects to its Osprey bittorrent distribution system.  The ibiblio-hosted or -mirrored projects now serving over torrent.ibiblio.org now include:

ArkLinux

Bintoo Linux

Damn Small Linux

Eclipse.org

EnGarde Linux

the FreeDOS Project

the ibiblio Speaker Series

OpenOffice.org

Project Gutenberg

RecordsQuest.org


ibiblio is pleased to disseminate its contributors&#8217; content through innovative delivery methods which should speed downloads [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ibiblio is pleased to announce the addition of four new contributing projects to its <a href="http://osprey.ibiblio.org">Osprey</a> bittorrent distribution system.  The ibiblio-hosted or -mirrored projects now serving over <a href="http://torrent.ibiblio.org">torrent.ibiblio.org</a> now include:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.arklinux.org">ArkLinux</a>
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<li><a href="http://bintoo.sourceforge.net/drpl/">Bintoo Linux</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/">Damn Small Linux</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse.org</a>
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<li><a href="http://speakers.ibiblio.org">the ibiblio Speaker Series</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.net">Project Gutenberg</a>
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<p>ibiblio is pleased to disseminate its contributors&#8217; content through innovative delivery methods which should speed downloads to end users while cutting bandwidth costs at the same time.  If you are interested in serving content images over <a href="http://torrent.ibiblio.org">torrent.ibiblio.org</a>, please drop a note to help at ibiblio.org.</p>
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		<title>ibiblio is an official Tier 1 mirror for the Fedora project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fedora Project leads have announced the availability of fedora-archives.ibiblio.org, a new Tier 1 mirror of the Fedora Project&#8217;s Linux distribution.  The new mirror is accessible to official Fedora mirrors who are connected to the high-speed National Lambda Rail and Internet2/Abilene networks, and is the project&#8217;s first step towards a new mirroring hierarchy.
Matt Domsch of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fedora Project leads have announced the availability of <i>fedora-archives.ibiblio.org</i>, a new Tier 1 mirror of the Fedora Project&#8217;s Linux distribution.  The new mirror is accessible to official Fedora mirrors who are connected to the high-speed National Lambda Rail and Internet2/Abilene networks, and is the project&#8217;s first step towards a new mirroring hierarchy.</p>
<p>Matt Domsch of the Fedora Project sends ibiblio his thanks for the mirroring, while ibiblio sends its thanks to the Fedora Project for the donation of hardware support which made possible both the <i>fedora-archives</i> mirror and a greatly expanded Linux distribution archive on <a href="ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/"><i>distro.ibiblio.org</i></a>.</p>
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		<title>Gutenberg and ibiblio recognized by US State Dept</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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20 July 2007

Project Gutenberg Digital Library Seeks To Spur Literacy
Library hopes to offer 1 million electronic books in 100 languages
By Jeffrey Thomas
USINFO Staff Writer
Washington &#8211; Thirty-six years ago, a student at the University of Illinois keyed the U.S. Declaration of Independence into a mainframe computer and offered it to others on the network that would [...]]]></description>
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<p>20 July 2007<br />
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Project Gutenberg Digital Library Seeks To Spur Literacy</strong></a></p>
<p>Library hopes to offer 1 million electronic books in 100 languages</p>
<p>By Jeffrey Thomas<br />
USINFO Staff Writer</p>
<p>Washington &#8211; Thirty-six years ago, a student at the University of Illinois keyed the U.S. Declaration of Independence into a mainframe computer and offered it to others on the network that would become the Internet. Six users downloaded the file, inaugurating what its founder, Michael Hart, decided to call Project Gutenberg in honor of Johannes Gutenberg, the 15th-century German printer who started the movable type printing press revolution.</p>
<p>Using free computer time at his university, Hart keyed in the first 100 books himself and since has devoted his life to the project. Today, he often is described as someone who was a visionary ahead of his time; he has described himself as an “incurable romantic,” a “natural-born workaholic and idealist.” Hart grasped from the outset that his idea for a digital library could change the world, spurring literacy. Project Gutenberg became the first information provider on the Internet and is the oldest digital library with the largest single collection of free electronic books, or e-books.</p>
<p>Project Gutenberg gives away 3 million e-books a week from just one single site, www.ibiblio.org at the University of North Carolina, according to Hart. Most are books whose copyrights have expired in the United States, but there are also audio books, recorded music, sheet music, moving pictures and still pictures. The original video clip of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, just four hours before American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong became the first person to step on the moon, is part of the collection, for example.</p>
<p>“The idea of Project Gutenberg is to bring the source of all information, and civilization, to the masses in the same way the Gutenberg press did in the middle of the second millennium, only in a modern manner,” Hart said.</p>
<p>The collection includes books in many languages other than English. For example, there are 1,053 books in French, 451 in German, 396 in Finnish, 279 in Dutch, 155 in Spanish, 114 in Italian, 113 in Portuguese, 54 in Tagalog, and even books in Frisian, Catalan, Nahuatl, Sanskrit and Iroquoian.</p>
<p>Hart has said he expects eventually to offer 1 million books in 100 languages as well as everything else in the public domain including graphics, music, movies, sculpture, paintings and photographs.</p>
<p>Hart’s goal is simple: “We want to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible.” He added that e-books advance the dissemination of culture, literacy, democracy and civil society.</p>
<p>Project Gutenberg does not claim new copyright on titles it publishes. Hart instead has encouraged the free reproduction and distribution of the collection by such projects as the eGranary, which places Web resources on a server on university campuses in developing countries that have little or no Internet connectivity. (See related article.)</p>
<p>Hart does not ask for user fees or solicit large grants, insisting his collection’s e-books be free, keeping the project a virtual, rather than physical, entity and relying on volunteers. So far, more than 50,000 people have helped – “there are no dues, no membership requirements and still only the most general guidelines to making eBooks for Project Gutenberg,” he said.</p>
<p>Hart’s project has inspired such other digital libraries as Projekt Gutenberg-DE for classic German literature and Projekt Runeberg for classic Nordic literature.</p>
<p>One of Hart’s key principles is “noninterference” with volunteers. “Project Gutenberg&#8217;s staff and the organization as a whole can do the most good by setting up a set of tools and infrastructure to create and distribute e-books, and then let creative and energetic volunteers do work as they see fit,” he said.</p>
<p>A free DVD, whose contents also are available for downloading, contains 17,000 of the collection’s first 19,000 titles.</p>
<p>Hart said he believes e-books are also an environmentally friendly alternative to printing traditional books. And, most of the world cannot afford the traditional book, he added. “When it comes to owning entire libraries, it&#8217;s easier if they are e-books.”</p>
<p>There are more than 20,000 free books listed in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. No special e-book readers, software or other devices are necessary. More than 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources. The Science Fiction Bookshelf is offering a new compact disk for downloading that includes most of the collection’s science fiction titles.</p>
<p>Users also can create a CD or DVD image containing only the books they want, whether 20 or 2,000. For further information on how to download compilations of e-books, see Gutenberg: The CD and DVD Project.</p>
<p>Project Gutenberg is participating in the second annual World eBook Fair, which has more than 750,000 e-books, including historical documents, national literatures, children’s literature, medicine and reference, available for free downloading through August 4.</p>
<p>(USINFO is produced by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)</p>
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		<title>ibiblio&#8217;s Folkstreams wins IMLS Leadership Grant</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/185</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expanding on the work of a previous IMLS grant, UNC&#8217;s ibiblio.org digital library will archive, digitize, and video stream 35 new documentary films. Partnering with Folkstreams, Inc. and the University&#8217;s Southern Folklore Collection, the project will produce a guide to best practices in video digitization; add 20 new video clips to its Video Aids for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Expanding on the work of a previous IMLS grant, UNC&#8217;s ibiblio.org digital library will archive, digitize, and video stream 35 new documentary films. Partnering with Folkstreams, Inc. and the University&#8217;s Southern Folklore Collection, the project will produce a guide to best practices in video digitization; add 20 new video clips to its Video Aids for Film Preservation; and create portals, guides, and outreach materials for senior citizens and teachers. Rare documentaries will provide knowledge of American folklife to these two distinct audiences using the easy-to-access folkstreams.net Website.</p>
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		<title>You&#8217;re invited: A Discussion with danah boyd</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/182</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, Ibiblio.org and the UNC Social Software Working Group are proud to present a discussion with danah boyd.
Who: danah boyd
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill Campus
When: September 14, 2006.  2-3:30PM.
Note: Seating limited, refreshments provided.
About danah:
boyd, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://unc.edu/">University of North Carolina</a> <a href="http://sils.unc.edu/">School of Information and Library Science</a>, <a href="http://ibiblio.org/">Ibiblio.org</a> and the UNC Social Software Working Group are proud to present a discussion with danah boyd.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">Who:</span> <a href="http://www.danah.org/">danah boyd</a><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Where:</span> <a href="http://www.unc.edu/toylounge/">Toy Lounge</a>, Dey Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill Campus<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">When:</span> September 14, 2006.  2-3:30PM.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Note:</span> Seating limited, refreshments provided.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">About danah:</span><br />
boyd, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley&#8217;s School of Information, explores how young people negotiate the presentation of self in online mediated contexts. Her research focuses on how this young audience engages with &#8220;digital publics&#8221; &#8211; connected social spaces such as MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga and YouTube.</p>
<p>Currently, boyd is a Graduate Fellow at the USC Anneberg Center, and social media researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley. Her recent work has explored diverse topics such as the creation of digital publics in Myspace.com (<a href="http://www.danah.org/papers/AAAS2006.html">Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace</a>), the design of culturally adaptive software (<a href="http://www.danah.org/papers/Etech2006.html">G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide</a>), and the exploration of folksonomy (<a href="http://www.danah.org/papers/Hypertext2006.pdf">HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead</a>).</p>
<p>At Berkeley, boyd is advised by Peter Lyman and Mimi Ito. She holds an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied with Judith Donath at the Media Lab, and a B.A. from Brown University. boyd is frequently cited in top media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR and Salon.com. She even went toe-to-toe with scary old Bill O&#8217;Reilly once. boyd blogs at <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/">http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/</a>, a must-read destination for those interested in social technology.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">About this discussion:</span><br />
The discussion will be structured by audience questions.  <span style="font-style: italic">The audience is asked to submit questions in advance. </span> Questions may be submitted to Fred Stutzman at fred@metalab.unc.edu. From these submitted questions, we&#8217;ll structure a discussion that will be open and wide-ranging.</p>
<p>Please feel free to forward this announcement as appropriate.</p>
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		<title>Johns Hopkins weblogs running on Lyceum, blog software developed by ibiblio</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/180</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins Weblogs are now running on Lyceum, a blogging services system developed by ibiblio. More info at the Lyceum blog.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blogs.jhu.edu/">Johns Hopkins Weblogs</a> are now running on <a href="http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/">Lyceum</a>, a blogging services system developed by ibiblio. <a href="http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/61">More info at the Lyceum blog</a>.</p>
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		<title>Announcing BarCampRDU &#8211; July 22, 2006, Raleigh, NC</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/176</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very pleased to report that we&#8217;ve secured a venue for BarCampRDU.  The kind folks at Red Hat have offered us space at their Centennial Campus offices on Saturday, July 22, 2006.  BarCampRDU will run from 8:30AM (registration and breakfast) to 5:30PM.   Now that we&#8217;ve got a date, please go and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to report that we&#8217;ve secured a venue for BarCampRDU.  The kind folks at <a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat</a> have offered us space at their <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;safe=off&#038;q=1801+Varsity+Drive+Raleigh,+North+Carolina+27606&#038;om=1">Centennial Campus offices</a> on <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/82296">Saturday, July 22, 2006</a>.  BarCampRDU will run from 8:30AM (registration and breakfast) to 5:30PM.   <span style="font-weight: bold">Now that we&#8217;ve got a date, please go and </span><a style="font-weight: bold" href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU">add yourself as an attendee to the wiki</a><span style="font-weight: bold">!</span></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s some other valuable information:</p>
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<li>To stay up-to-date with BarCampRDU planning (low-to-medium volume), add yourself to our <a href="http://ibiblio.org/">ibiblio</a>-hosted <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/BarCampRDU">mailing list</a>.</li>
<li>To keep up-to-date with BarCampRDU announcements (low-volume), add this blog&#8217;s <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Barcamprdu">feed</a> to your newsreader.</li>
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<p>Now that we&#8217;ve secured a date and a venue &#8211; we need sponsors. Sponsors will help cover the costs of feeding, caffeinating and t-shirting BarCampers. Sponsorship is absolutely crucial for BarCampRDU &#8211; so please consider (contact me at fred @ ibiblio.org if interested). Think of all the geeks you&#8217;ll be making happy.</p>
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		<title>BarCampRDU</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 13:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to announce that we&#8217;re planning a BarCamp in the Raleigh-Durham area!  A BarCamp is an unconference where lots of geek-oriented people get together to chat, teach, learn, eat and have fun.  If you&#8217;ve never been to an unconference before, they are a lot of fun and worth experiencing.
We&#8217;re in the very [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that we&#8217;re planning a <a href="http://barcamp.org">BarCamp</a> in the Raleigh-Durham area!  A BarCamp is an unconference where lots of geek-oriented people get together to chat, teach, learn, eat and have fun.  If you&#8217;ve never been to an unconference before, they are a lot of fun and worth experiencing.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re in the very early stages of planning <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU">BarCampRDU</a>, but we know a couple of things we need.  We need <strong>people to help out</strong> with BarCampRDU&#8217;s planning and execution.  We need <strong>sponsors</strong> to help cover the costs of refreshments and materials.  We need <strong>space</strong> to host the conference (150 people, hosted on a Saturday).  Most importantly, we need <strong>campers</strong> to come learn, teach and have a great time at BarCampRDU.</p>
<p>To get involved, you&#8217;ll want to visit the <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU">BarCampRDU website</a>, where you can see the preliminary planning that&#8217;s gone on.  You should also subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/BarCampRDU">BarCampRDU mailing list</a>, as this will be the place we have most of our planning discussions.  However, if you just have a simple question &#8211; don&#8217;t hesitate to contact me at fred@metalab.unc.edu.</p>
<p>BarCampRDU will be <strong>free </strong>for all campers, it will be hosted on a <strong>Saturday </strong>in<strong> July</strong> (possibly July 8th), and <strong>everyone is invited</strong> to attend (You need not be from RDU area).  To help spread the word, we ask that you blog about BarCampRDU, email your friends, whatever.  We can only get the word out with your help.  Finally, I hope that you&#8217;ll think about coming out &#8211; BarCamps have been great successes around the country, and we&#8217;d like to do the same here!</p>
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		<title>Clearware.org launches</title>
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		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This project really tickles my fancy.
Clearware.org aims to make End User License Agreements (EULAs) easy to read for people like you and I, not just the lawyers who write them.  Clearware.org specifies a style of summary very similar to a Creative Commons deed that highlights the important points of the license so you can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This project really tickles my fancy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.clearware.org">Clearware.org</a> aims to make End User License Agreements (EULAs) easy to read for people like you and I, not just the lawyers who write them.  Clearware.org specifies a style of summary very similar to a Creative Commons deed that highlights the important points of the license so you can take it all in at a glance.</p>
<p>In addition, and this is the part that I think is the coolest, Clearware.org specifies how to mark up a license as an RDF document so that the license can be understood by third party programs.  This sort of semantic markup would eventually allow users search for software based on licensing terms!</p>
<p>We&#8217;re very happy to host this innovative new project!</p>
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