@overactor I disagree with that. There is a lot of exciting thing going on in remix culture now - most of those are totally unrelated to software. I don't have any figures. but my impression is that there are a lot more CC-licensed projects around than FLOSS-licensed projects.
@overactor - I regard Free Culture as a broad movement, where "culture" may refer to literary and artistic works, hardware, software, file formats, raw and processed data, etc.
Sure, but people should think beyond that association handy in their head. They should think about how this site can be "marketed" to other people than themselves.
I suspect people associate Free Culture more with the culture around the free/open movement than with what it actually means
and at least 8 people on meta so strongly disliked it that they downvoted, which clearly means it doesn't conjure the right image for most. If that's already the case for those who make use of the site now, it will probably be stronger if the site gains more influx from outside sources (read: google)
@Martijn, the 8 people who downvoted are of course entitled to do so, but there is really no discussion in that thread about what kind of image we want to project.
@FreeRadical what I think people might associate "free culture" with is "Why does RMS have a katana" or "What's the importance of beards in open source"
@FreeRadical I'm not sure about that, but I agree that there a lot of exciting stuff besides software. Cory Doctorow did a good job to promote CC in literature, there is some good stuff in music (and good remixing too, look at Tryad), there are a few free movies and so on
@overactor I disagree "Open Source" to me is about source code (i.e. software), and it about a particular philosophy about source code that not all programmers that cherish freedom share.
My issue with "Free Culture" is that it's like "Open Source" for the site name. Creative Commons has something called "Free Culture", so it could spark something up again.
Free content, libre content, or free information, is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content that meets the definition of a free cultural work. A free cultural work is one which has no significant legal restriction on people's freedom:
to use the content and benefit from using it,
to study the content and apply what is learned,
to make and distribute copies of the content,
to change and improve the content and distribute these derivative works.
Although there are a great many different definitions in regular everyday use, free content is legally very similar if not like...
Nope - it is true that CC uses a "Free Culture"-seal, but it doesn't originate with CC. It is only used for CC licenses that qualify as "free" according to the FSF definition of "free" (i.e. CC BY, and CC BY-SA).
@overactor I diagree with this: "Open Source is spot on when it comes to conveyability and recognisability". It is too narrow (software only), and too partisan (OSI philosophy aligned). People who are not software people or not-OSI people would not recognize a site bearing that name as their site.
@overactor Free & Open what? I think this is too unspecific for our site. "Free & Open SE" could be about free stuff (including beer), free and open speech, transparency in government, the great outdoors, etc.
And people are more likely to think of Free Software and Open Source, which points them in the wrong direction if we're serious about having a broader scope than software.
"Stack Overflow" is a great pun that any programmer (which is the audience of that site) will instantly recognise. It is almost as great a pun as "Open source, not doors" (which has been downvoted as community ad).
No, that one was downvoted by a user polite enough to state the reason "hostile towards Microsoft" - so I am OK with that. I just don't understand why the one about keeping draught out of the lab was downvoted.
@FreeRadical Open source, not doors (physically that is, metaphorically opening doors is encouraged and exactly what you'll achieve by opening source) (because it's quite chilly outside)
@Martijn. Good idea. I just need to create the book image. Any particular book that have sort of Free Culture significance. Lessig's "Free Culture" perhaps?
I am currently managing a non-profit project? I have a large amount of documents in paper format. Where can I ask a question concerning the organization of stacks of paper that seemingly "overflow". I would ask on Stack Overflow but I doubt I can go there... :P
In essence, where can I ask questi...
maybe something with quotes? Lessig's "A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now." feels nice to me
The Lessig quote is a wall of text. We've only got 220x250 px. What a about the artwork? Lessig loves white courier on black. That's a font that requires a lot of room.
I believe Drupal is one of the largest single project distros. It has (as of today) 95 356 contributors. Large distributions made up of several projects (such as Debian) may have more accumulated contributors.
@Martijn Can be useful but maybe premature. Keep in mind that it's perfectly normal to have some overlap, i.e. questions that are on-topic on both sides. It's generally a bad idea to say “let's make X off-topic on site A because it's on-topic on site B”. X is off-topic on A because it's too far from the focus of A or it isn't appropriate for the community on A.
Example: questions about Ubuntu and about elementary OS are on-topic on Unix & Linux, regardless of the existence of Ask Ubuntu and elementary OS
This doesn't preclude advising certain types of questions to go one way or the other, e.g. questions about the fidelity of a book adaptation are more Science Fiction & Fantasy than Movies & TV
Here, if you want an answer from a lawyer who might not know anything about software, go to Law, if you want an answer from a programmer who might not know anything about the law, go to Open Source
@Gilles I'm not talking about making anything off-topic on either end, and I wouldn't support that at all. But when a question is being closed as off-topic, offering an alternative site where it may be on topic seems rather unobjectionable
I'm a regular contributor to the beta of opensource.stackexchange, and we semi-regularly have questions which we close as off-topic because they are about copyright in general and don't really pertain to open source.
When we close them off-topic, it would be nice to be able to offer an alternati...
It seems the tags derived-works, derivatives and derivative-works are all used for the same thing. Should the former two be superseded with the latter? Should either of the first two be retained as redirects, or should they just be burniated?