We need a service like this to foster adoption of open content: OSS-Watch - "OSS Watch provides the UK further and higher education community with neutral and authoritative guidance about free and open source software, and about related open standards." (via FOS)

Some very interesting things happen at Wikipedia.org. First a new foundation was formed called Wikimedia. And the last few weeks a textbook project is getting launched: The Wikimedia Free Textbook Project. It intends to cooperatively write textbooks using a wiki.
Read the archives at http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/
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