---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Guillermo Fernando Cámara <guillofca@yahoo.com.ar>
Date: 2011/10/17
Subject: [gene_camara] Rv: [spam] RE: Crowdsourcing – linking up to reach Education for All
To: Nuestro Grupo <gene_camara@gruposyahoo.com.ar>
From: Guillermo Fernando Cámara <guillofca@yahoo.com.ar>
Date: 2011/10/17
Subject: [gene_camara] Rv: [spam] RE: Crowdsourcing – linking up to reach Education for All
To: Nuestro Grupo <gene_camara@gruposyahoo.com.ar>
guillofca
GUILLERMO FERNANDO CÁMARA
Celular: +5493425045816
Los Sauces 274 - Choele Choel - Provincia de Río Negro - RA
Cuentas en Google, Facebook, Live y, por supuesto en Yahoo.
Ver escritos en:
Los libros terminados pueden ubicarse en los archivos de los sitios indicados en español, o, en http://www.ediciona.com/escritor_guillermo_fernando_camara-dirf-17990-c15.htm
----- Mensaje reenviado -----
De: UNESCO-UNEVOC e-Forum <e-Forum@unevoc.unesco.org>
Para: UNESCO-UNEVOC e-Forum <forum@unevoc.unesco.org>
Enviado: lunes, 17 de octubre de 2011 5:40
Asunto: [spam] RE: Crowdsourcing – linking up to reach Education for All
From: Damian Boyle [mailto:Damian_Boyle@cameco.com]
Sent: 2011-10-17 05:50
Subject: RE: Crowdsourcing – linking up to reach Education for All
Good Day, Every One!
Those working on this project may draw inspiration from the work of:
Michael Hart
Michael Hart, father of e-books and founder of Project Gutenberg, died on
September 6th, aged 64
Sep 24th 2011 | from the print edition
http://www.economist.com/node/21530075/print
AMONG the episodes in his life that didn't last, that were over almost
before they began, including a spell in the army and a try at marriage,
Michael Hart was a street musician in San Francisco. He made no money at
it, but then he never bought into the money system much—garage-sale
T-shirts, canned beans for supper, were his sort of thing. He gave the
music away for nothing because he believed it should be as freely available
as the air you breathed, or as the wild blackberries and raspberries he
used to gorge on, growing up, in the woods near Tacoma in Washington state.
All good things should be abundant, and they should be free.
He came to apply that principle to books, too. Everyone should have access
to the great works of the world, whether heavy (Shakespeare,
"Moby-Dick", pi to 1m places), or light (Peter Pan, Sherlock Holmes,
the "Kama Sutra"). Everyone should have a free library of their own,
the whole Library of Congress if they wanted, or some esoteric little
subset; he liked Romanian poetry himself, and Herman Hesse's
"Siddhartha". The joy of e-books, which he invented, was that anyone
could read those books anywhere, free, on any device, and every text could
be replicated millions of times over. He dreamed that by 2021 he would have
provided a million e-books each, a petabyte of information that could
probably be held in one hand, to a billion people all over the globe—a
quadrillion books, just given away. As powerful as the Bomb, but
beneficial.
That dream had grown from small beginnings: from him, a student at the
University of Illinois in Urbana, hanging round a huge old mainframe
computer on the night of the Fourth of July in 1971, with the sound of
fireworks still in his ears. The engineers had given him by his reckoning
$100m-worth of computer time, in those infant days of the internet.
Wondering what to do, ferreting in his bag, he found a copy of the
Declaration of Independence he had been given at the grocery store, and a
light-bulb pinged on in his head. Slowly, on a 50-year-old Teletype machine
with punched-paper tape, he began to bang out "When in the Course of
human events…"
This was the first free e-text, and none better as a declaration of
freedom from the old-boy network of publishing. What he typed could not
even be sent as an e-mail, in case it crashed the ancient Arpanet system;
he had to send a message to say that it could be downloaded. Six people
did, of perhaps 100 on the network. It was followed over years by the
Gettysburg Address, the Constitution and the King James Bible, all
arduously hand-typed, full of errors, by Mr Hart. No one particularly
noticed. He mended people's hi-fis to get by. Then from 1981, with a
growing band of volunteer helpers scanning, rather than typing, a flood of
e-texts gathered. By 2011 there were 33,000, accumulating at a rate of 200
a month, with translations into 60 languages, all given away free. No
wonder money-oriented rivals such as Google and Yahoo! sprang up all round
as the new century dawned, claiming to have invented e-books before him.
He called his enterprise Project Gutenberg. This was partly because
Gutenberg with his printing press had put wagonloads of books within the
reach of people who had never read before; and also because printing had
torn down the wall between haves and have-nots, literate and illiterate,
rich and poor, until whole power-structures toppled. Mr Hart, for all his
burly, hippy affability, was a cyber-revolutionary, with a snappy list of
the effects he expected e-books to have:
Books prices plummet.
Literacy rates soar.
Education rates soar.
Old structures crumble, as did the Church.
Scientific Revolution.
Industrial Revolution.
Humanitarian Revolution.
If all these upheavals were tardier than he hoped, it was because of the
Mickey Mouse copyright laws. Every time men found a speedier way to spread
information to each other, government made it illegal. During the lifetime
of Project Gutenberg alone, the average time a book stayed in copyright in
America rose from 30 to almost 100 years. Mr Hart tried to keep out of
trouble, posting works that were safely in the public domain, but chafed at
being unable to give away books that were new, and fought all copyright
extensions like a tiger. "Unlimited distribution" was his mantra. Give
everyone everything! Break the bars of ignorance down!
The power of plain words
He lived without a mobile phone, in a chaos of books and wiring. The
computer hardware in his basement, from where he kept an unbossy watch over
the whole project, often not bothering to pick up his monthly salary, was
ten years old, and the software 20. Simple crowdsourcing was his management
style, where people scanned or keyed in works they loved and sent them to
him. Project Gutenberg books had a frugal look, with their Plain Vanilla
ASCII format, which might have been produced on an old typewriter; but then
it was content, not form, that mattered to Mr Hart. These were great
thoughts, and he was sending them to people everywhere, available to read
at the speed of light, and free as the air they breathed.
***
RIP, Buddy.
T. Damian Boyle
Workplace Educator
McArthur River Mine
c/o CAMECO
2121 Eleventh Street West
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7M 1J3
Canada
(306) 633-2001 (Extension 8881)
www.northlandscollege.sk.ca
view thread online:
http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/forum.php?show=1496
--------------------------------------------------------------------
UNESCO-UNEVOC e-Forum, http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/e-forum
Login for read-only access: User "Bulletin", password "read"
Contributions, feedback, unsubscription: forum@unevoc.unesco.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------
De: UNESCO-UNEVOC e-Forum <e-Forum@unevoc.unesco.org>
Para: UNESCO-UNEVOC e-Forum <forum@unevoc.unesco.org>
Enviado: lunes, 17 de octubre de 2011 5:40
Asunto: [spam] RE: Crowdsourcing – linking up to reach Education for All
From: Damian Boyle [mailto:Damian_Boyle@cameco.com]
Sent: 2011-10-17 05:50
Subject: RE: Crowdsourcing – linking up to reach Education for All
Good Day, Every One!
Those working on this project may draw inspiration from the work of:
Michael Hart
Michael Hart, father of e-books and founder of Project Gutenberg, died on
September 6th, aged 64
Sep 24th 2011 | from the print edition
http://www.economist.com/node/21530075/print
AMONG the episodes in his life that didn't last, that were over almost
before they began, including a spell in the army and a try at marriage,
Michael Hart was a street musician in San Francisco. He made no money at
it, but then he never bought into the money system much—garage-sale
T-shirts, canned beans for supper, were his sort of thing. He gave the
music away for nothing because he believed it should be as freely available
as the air you breathed, or as the wild blackberries and raspberries he
used to gorge on, growing up, in the woods near Tacoma in Washington state.
All good things should be abundant, and they should be free.
He came to apply that principle to books, too. Everyone should have access
to the great works of the world, whether heavy (Shakespeare,
"Moby-Dick", pi to 1m places), or light (Peter Pan, Sherlock Holmes,
the "Kama Sutra"). Everyone should have a free library of their own,
the whole Library of Congress if they wanted, or some esoteric little
subset; he liked Romanian poetry himself, and Herman Hesse's
"Siddhartha". The joy of e-books, which he invented, was that anyone
could read those books anywhere, free, on any device, and every text could
be replicated millions of times over. He dreamed that by 2021 he would have
provided a million e-books each, a petabyte of information that could
probably be held in one hand, to a billion people all over the globe—a
quadrillion books, just given away. As powerful as the Bomb, but
beneficial.
That dream had grown from small beginnings: from him, a student at the
University of Illinois in Urbana, hanging round a huge old mainframe
computer on the night of the Fourth of July in 1971, with the sound of
fireworks still in his ears. The engineers had given him by his reckoning
$100m-worth of computer time, in those infant days of the internet.
Wondering what to do, ferreting in his bag, he found a copy of the
Declaration of Independence he had been given at the grocery store, and a
light-bulb pinged on in his head. Slowly, on a 50-year-old Teletype machine
with punched-paper tape, he began to bang out "When in the Course of
human events…"
This was the first free e-text, and none better as a declaration of
freedom from the old-boy network of publishing. What he typed could not
even be sent as an e-mail, in case it crashed the ancient Arpanet system;
he had to send a message to say that it could be downloaded. Six people
did, of perhaps 100 on the network. It was followed over years by the
Gettysburg Address, the Constitution and the King James Bible, all
arduously hand-typed, full of errors, by Mr Hart. No one particularly
noticed. He mended people's hi-fis to get by. Then from 1981, with a
growing band of volunteer helpers scanning, rather than typing, a flood of
e-texts gathered. By 2011 there were 33,000, accumulating at a rate of 200
a month, with translations into 60 languages, all given away free. No
wonder money-oriented rivals such as Google and Yahoo! sprang up all round
as the new century dawned, claiming to have invented e-books before him.
He called his enterprise Project Gutenberg. This was partly because
Gutenberg with his printing press had put wagonloads of books within the
reach of people who had never read before; and also because printing had
torn down the wall between haves and have-nots, literate and illiterate,
rich and poor, until whole power-structures toppled. Mr Hart, for all his
burly, hippy affability, was a cyber-revolutionary, with a snappy list of
the effects he expected e-books to have:
Books prices plummet.
Literacy rates soar.
Education rates soar.
Old structures crumble, as did the Church.
Scientific Revolution.
Industrial Revolution.
Humanitarian Revolution.
If all these upheavals were tardier than he hoped, it was because of the
Mickey Mouse copyright laws. Every time men found a speedier way to spread
information to each other, government made it illegal. During the lifetime
of Project Gutenberg alone, the average time a book stayed in copyright in
America rose from 30 to almost 100 years. Mr Hart tried to keep out of
trouble, posting works that were safely in the public domain, but chafed at
being unable to give away books that were new, and fought all copyright
extensions like a tiger. "Unlimited distribution" was his mantra. Give
everyone everything! Break the bars of ignorance down!
The power of plain words
He lived without a mobile phone, in a chaos of books and wiring. The
computer hardware in his basement, from where he kept an unbossy watch over
the whole project, often not bothering to pick up his monthly salary, was
ten years old, and the software 20. Simple crowdsourcing was his management
style, where people scanned or keyed in works they loved and sent them to
him. Project Gutenberg books had a frugal look, with their Plain Vanilla
ASCII format, which might have been produced on an old typewriter; but then
it was content, not form, that mattered to Mr Hart. These were great
thoughts, and he was sending them to people everywhere, available to read
at the speed of light, and free as the air they breathed.
***
RIP, Buddy.
T. Damian Boyle
Workplace Educator
McArthur River Mine
c/o CAMECO
2121 Eleventh Street West
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7M 1J3
Canada
(306) 633-2001 (Extension 8881)
www.northlandscollege.sk.ca
view thread online:
http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/forum.php?show=1496
--------------------------------------------------------------------
UNESCO-UNEVOC e-Forum, http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/e-forum
Login for read-only access: User "Bulletin", password "read"
Contributions, feedback, unsubscription: forum@unevoc.unesco.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------
__._,_.___
.
__,_._,___
--
CARLOS FLORENTINO VEGA Y SONIA MABEL AGUIRRE: CONCESIONARIOS DEL CAMPING CAMARONES LES DAN LA BIENVENIDA Y ESPERAN SU COMUNICACIÓN, NOTA O COMENTARIO.
Mobile telephones (cellular): +5492965322906 and +5492974148524 (02965-15322906 and 0297-154148524).
Correo Electrónico: CampingCamarones@gmail.com
Página Web: http://sites.google.com/site/campingcamarones
Blog: http://campingcamarones.blogspot.com/
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario