Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Domains

Domain: ompg.com

Stories and comments across the archive that link to ompg.com.

Comments · 10

  1. somebody is thinking about textbooks by an_mo · · Score: 5, Informative · on On Copylefting Your Text?
    Read this initiative for an example of an alternative licence, but more importantly for tentative applications: I'm sure ther's more....
  2. textbook company based on this concept by mlesesky · · Score: 5 · on Nupedia and Project Gutenberg Directors Answer

    please check out OpenMind Publishing Group and OpenText Project. The idea is to generate textbooks from open licensed works. It is a for profit company and has received funding.

    OpenMind is leading the initiative to replace traditional textbook publishing with an automated, online process that returns the power of teaching to professors and enriches the learning experience for students. We have transformed textbook publishing into a real-time dynamic process by providing an open source environment where textbooks are:
    - Free to professors, 70% less than traditional cost for students
    - Free of exclusivity
    - Free of the finality associated with content in a traditional text


    From the OpenMind website: While the idea of open content textbooks might be new to academia, the concept of information sharing certainly is not. From dissertation defenses to conference white-papers, the concepts of collaboration, peer review, and group-enhanced projects are evident throughout the academic community.

    Our mission is to use these traditions to create the most dynamic, thoroughly reviewed and highest quality textbook content available today. OpenMind will support open content and the OpenText Project by providing grants for content development. We will also look to you...the members of the academic community, for participation by adding your content, insight, and supplementary teaching materials.

    All content on the OpenText Project website is freely available for modification, use, and non-commercial redistribution under the OpenText Project License.

    To find out more, please visit the OpenTextProject website at www.OpenTextProject.org, and register as a member at no cost to you.

  3. Re:Man Pages by mlesesky · · Score: 1 · on Finding Educational Materials For A Linux Class?

    check OpenMind

  4. Re:Worth Trying by mlesesky · · Score: 1 · on Do Open-Source Books Work?

    we, OpenMind Publishing Group are trying. please take a second to check us out. we need content and help with the build. also take a look at the OpenText Project. Thanks.

  5. Re:What about eBooks? by mlesesky · · Score: 2 · on Do Open-Source Books Work?
    interesting comment. i think that xml in general can be used to solve some of our pain. the idea is to write to a standard dtd which is extended for the various subjects (math, physics would need extra elements). as tools improve, you can write import utilities which will import from framemaker and word. it will be tough, but as the dtd becomes a standard, programs will be made which assist author by forcing templates (if you want to stay in the standard.)

    btw, check out OpenMind Publishing Group and OpenText Project

  6. Re:Many open source books available by mlesesky · · Score: 1 · on Do Open-Source Books Work?

    please take a look at OpenMind Publishing Group and the OpenText Project. They are trying to bring open source to higher education.

  7. Re:Digital Books... by mlesesky · · Score: 1 · on Do Open-Source Books Work?

    Man, you guys should look at OpenMind Publishing Group and the OpenText Project

  8. Re:What is open publishing???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Open Publishing: The Net and the E-book

    please take a look at OpenMind and the OpenText Project.

  9. Re:Right of Transfer by mlesesky · · Score: 1 · on The Right To Read: Time Limited Textbooks

    you should take a look at OpenText Project and OpenMind Publishing they have an open content publishing model. they want to lower prices.

  10. Re:medical warez by mlesesky · · Score: 1 · on The Right To Read: Time Limited Textbooks

    take a look at OpenText Project and OpenMind Publishing