More on the Wheeler Declaration
my magical google reader informs me that peter suber’s excellent open access news has picked up the wheeler declaration, adding commentary snatched from little green river:
“The second day, the spontaneous participant-organized “unconference”, provoked a lot of good conversations and was surprisingly productive–by the end of it, everyone agreed to what people are calling the Wheeler Declaration (after the building we were in): an agenda for Students for Free Culture to focus on for next year. We’re still arguing about what to call it (since Open University is trademarked, apparently), but the idea is to pressure and grade our campuses based on five criteria: opening access to research, creating/using open courseware, embracing free/open-source software and open document formats, using university-held patents for the public good (think cheap drugs for the developing world), and keeping the university network unfiltered and uncensored. We’ll see how SFC executes this plan, but I think it’s an excellent target for the org to have.”
keep checking back here for some more madison SFC related posts, cause there’s a lot of interesting stuff on the horizon, for serious.
