Liberate Science

[chartgerink]

[ Project Contact ] @chartgerink
[ GitHub Repo ] https://github.com/libscie/liberator
[ Track ] Digital Inclusion
[ Community ] Mozilla Science - wrangler @stephwright
[ Location ] Tilburg, NLD, CET

Description

Public access to the public domain is not a given --- in order to ensure this, this project aims to identify and liberate scholarly works that have expired copyright and are in fact public domain. The current aim is to develop an easy-to-use website that allows users to contribute to freeing these works.This helps empower people to share their access where it is possible. Liberate once, free forever.

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Join us at the Global Sprint, June 1-2. Leave a comment below if you're interested in contributing to this project during #mozsprint 2017!

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[chadsansing]

Calling @stephwright - should this be a Science community project?

[stephwright]

Sorry... yes :)

[stephwright]

Hi @chartgerink ... I'm checking in to see how prep is going for this Global Sprint project. I'd love to see it succeed. Just a few steps to get through and I can make this a Featured Project. You would definitely want to make sure it's got a README and CONTRIBUTING though so folks know how to help you out during the sprint! It's only 3 weeks away! 🎆

[chartgerink]

Hey @stephwright; it's on my to-do for tomorrow! Thanks for pinging me though, I've been tardy on this. I had some of this stuff in a meta-repo and just have to transfer and add :-)

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[chartgerink]

Just updating: have everything ready to push to github, just waiting for a response from one person and then I will be ready, also for Mozilla Pulse 😄

[stephwright]

Hi @chartgerink ... did you have an image you wanted me to post with this?

[chartgerink]

Yes, I was just awaiting the response to push everything. Here is the image.

So now truly: This is ready for Mozilla Pulse

[stephwright]

You've been Pulsed! https://www.mozillapulse.org/entry/283