Articles that associated with Potto Project
- Open Source/content Ideology and the Law: A Personal Perspective
- What do you think will happen when you try to protect your rights in your material under license similar to Gnu Documentation License (GDL)? These days, individuals from the open source community encounter several legal battles on two laws; the copyright law (DeCSS for example) and the trademark (issue with web sites names). I would like to present to you what I believe is the trend in the Courts. I have been involved in three lawsuits on these issues. In spite of my bad experiences, I believe that the situation is changing for the better. I will present my ideas how open source/content community further can improve it.
- Experience developing an open content engineering textbooks
- In today's economy, one of the main problem for students is the cost of textbooks. To combat this problem, I started the Potto Project (www.potto.org) two years ago in which two textbooks have been written. One of the books, Compressible Flow, also includes comprehensive software package. The experience of writing these books and the knowledge that was gained is described here.
- Open content approach to academic writing
- A comparison between textbook creation under the open content license and the traditional academic writing shows that the open content is much more powerful. The open academic writing is extension of the traditional academic writing in which an article or a book is given to a committee for review. Only if a select anonymous members committee approves the book it is published. Supposedly, the committee is to make sure that minimum standards are achieved and also to improve the article. In the open content the a whole community acts as the ``committee.''
About Potto Project
Potto Project has been created by Dr. Genick Bar-Meir and friends to build free software and textbooks for college students.
Potto Project is under open content licenses, which means that you will always have the freedom to use it, make copies of it, and improve it. You are encouraged to make use of these freedoms and share the textbooks and program with your family and friends!