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Just a brief note to begin discussion (which should probably be taken to some other place at least for the more general discussions). This is an excellent initiative! I've been working at the World Bank for bit over a year and have talked a lot with a number of my colleagues and friends about possibilities to create a "development wiki" that could (i) host all development related information that doesn't fit to Wikipedia and (ii) at least as importantly bring together the international development "community" to actually make it a community and not a zillion fragmented communities as the situation is currently. Anyways, great initiative & good to see that it's gotten to this stage (from the concept note). --Jaakko 21:52, 7 August 2008 (EDT)
Definitions
The two points in the first set of definitions contradict each other:
- Is enabled by the contributions of various sources and contributing partners, each of which own and control their contributions.
- Any individual or organization can contribute, and any individual or organization can make use of the information that composes the GDC.
It seems obvious that the latter part of the first bullet should not be there and that the second bullet should be the case. This is closely tied to the question of the licensing of the content in GDC and the issue should be discussed as part of that. --Jaakko 21:52, 7 August 2008 (EDT)
Licensing?
As noted in the Definitions (above) GDC should be commons as the name says and thus have as little restrictions as possible. CC-unported (is that CC-by-sa in the CC v.3 scheme?) sounds very good to me. --Jaakko 21:52, 7 August 2008 (EDT)
Answering to myself: CC unported is the non-localized version of Creative Commons license. CC licenses havee been localized to many countries to take in consideration certain local legislation details of different countries. I think that for a global commons initiative it would make sense to use a non-localized version of the CC license. That is, unless some lawyer or other who better understands things can point out problems in using the unported license. See CreativeCommons.cc for details. --Jaakko 07:54, 25 October 2008 (EDT)
