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Reason for being: "facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content." Content = everything but software.
http://www.opencontent.org/
Goal: create a distributed global repository of production knowledge of past, present and future processes, materials, products.
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/index.htm
The purpose of the Linart project is twofold. First, to advance the use of Linux-based systems and other free, open source software for artists; and second, to define, encourage, and promote free art and a community of those who make it.
http://linart.net/
Mission is to lead the open source content movement in higher education, modeling textbook content after the open source software movement.
http://otp.inlimine.org/
An effort to create a complete K-12 curriculum and set of course materials that are "Free" in the GNU sense.
http://www.nongnu.org/fcp/
Article on the first steps of an experimental, open-source/open content project that will "give a learner... free access to educational materials that can be readily manipulated to suit her individual learning style".
http://creativecommons.org/getcontent/features/connexions
A forum to exchange information on publications and websites of potential interest to the readers of the journal, Information Research, an open access, refereed, electronic journal covering the information field generally.
http://www.free-conversant.com/irweblog/
Free lecture notes, articles, and resources pertaining to leveraging Open Source technologies and the classics in business.
http://classicalmba.com/
Free travel guide based on contributed open content.
http://www.world66.com/
Read entire books online which were published under various forms of "open" copyright.
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www.oreilly.com O'Reilly Open Books Project Media has published a number of Open Books books with various forms of open copyright. The reasons for opening copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors. Perhaps a...An introduction to IP law as it relates to Open Content (PDF).
http://www.greglondon.com
International non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of free content, multilingual, wiki-based projects, and to providing the full content of those projects to the public free of charge.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/
Article by Magnus Cedergren discusses models involving the driving forces in a theoretical open content value chain.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_8/cedergren/index.html