[IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom

[Edward Cherlin]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Kim Rose <kim.rose at vpri.org> wrote:
> When we first published the book in 2003 the situation at Viewpoints
> Research and with my co-author,  BJ Conn were quite different than they are
> today.  The olpc initiative, organization and the XO computer did not exist.
>  At that time we were thinking more traditional "print media" - hence the
> traditional copyright notice in the printed hard-copy book.
>
>  -- Kim

Would your publisher be willing to put the electronic version under a
Creative Commons license?

> On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
>
>> I am quite curious why you haven't chosen to release it under an
>> open-source license. Could you explain the reasons why you chose a
>> restrictive copyright for this work?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kim Rose <kim.rose at vpri.org>
>> To: Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>
>> Cc: Alan Kay <alan.nemo at yahoo.com>,
>> its.an.education.project at tema.lo-res.org
>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom
>> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:18:36 -0700
>>
>> You now have that permission!
>>  Kim Rose
>> Executive Director
>> Viewpoints Research Institute
>>
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The Copyright notice on the book says "All Rights Reserved" which
>>> means
>>> I have to get the written permission from VPRI before making any
>>> change
>>> and redistributing it.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alan Kay <alan.nemo at yahoo.com>
>>> To: Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>,
>>> its.an.education.project at tema.lo-res.org
>>> Cc: kim.rose at vpri.org
>>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom
>>> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:38:43 -0700 (PDT)
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what you mean. This book has been freely used as a
>>> base for
>>> translations into Japanese, Spanish,.Portuguese, etc. It can certainly
>>> be freely translated into Nepalese.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>
>>> To: its.an.education.project at tema.lo-res.org
>>> Cc: kim.rose at vpri.org
>>> Sent: Monday, July 7, 2008 6:05:26 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom
>>>
>>>> A complete PDF of the "Powerful Ideas in the Classroom" book can be
>>>> downloaded here:
>>>> http://www.squeakland.org/tmp/PowerfulIdeas-20041018.zip
>>>
>>> I have looked at this book before and been quite impressed w/ it.
>>>
>>> I am concerned that it is not open-source. It would be quite useful
>>> for
>>> us in Nepal to translate individual portions and put them into
>>> individual lesson plans tied to the national curriculum. The current
>>> licensing scheme discourages this.
>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Bryan W. Berry
>>> Systems Engineer
>>> OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Bryan W. Berry
>> Systems Engineer
>> OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>>
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