Franz Nahrada – P2P Foundation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:21:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 62076519 VideoBridge, international version https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/videobridge-international-version/2008/10/30 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/videobridge-international-version/2008/10/30#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:08:30 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2028 The following short Video was produced last year to showcase the first experiences with VideoBridge, a simple methodology to share educational content between institutions. The idea this leads to is to encourage these educational institutions – especially those in rural areas, but not only them – to share and record the best they have to... Continue reading →

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]]> The following short Video was produced last year to showcase the first experiences with VideoBridge, a simple methodology to share educational content between institutions. The idea this leads to is to encourage these educational institutions – especially those in rural areas, but not only them – to share and record the best they have to offer and build an entirely new curriculum on the base of cooperative exchange. The idea is not only that in producing a shared lecture the quality of the lecture is augmented, but also that institutions at the producing end can show their expertise and specialisation. Furthermore, at the receiving end, the learning process can be arranged by moderators in a way to add whatever they need – so learning is successful for the locals. This would form in my view eventually the base for a virtual p2p university of the villages.

Forgive me the few minutes of personal introductions at the beginning, but this helped me already not to be forced to travel and demonstrate at some conferences. We are pretty busy with our dream of bringing a network of 300 places of access and learning into existence here in Austria, and I will also try to instigate international (and maybe global) VideoBridge clusters that eventually could grow together. For the beginning please leave a comment here if you are interested.

Our next attempt will be a European network of adult education institutions based on strong ties that we created in our MIR project. (Adult Education as Source of Motivation, Integration and Resources for Local Development).

But there are many projects in the loop and it would be great to hear of yours!

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]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/videobridge-international-version/2008/10/30/feed 3 2028 Bits and Pieces from the Idea Predators (part 1) https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bits-and-pieces-from-the-idea-predators-part-1/2008/05/30 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bits-and-pieces-from-the-idea-predators-part-1/2008/05/30#respond Fri, 30 May 2008 07:47:09 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1549 I am suggesting a new series in this blog, describing Anti P2P Practises in various industries, exploiting users ideas, times and efforts in ways that are clearly immoral, while taken for granted and legal by their promotors. To begin with, I found a little note on a site of a commercial software company (The Omni... Continue reading →

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]]> I am suggesting a new series in this blog, describing Anti P2P Practises in various industries, exploiting users ideas, times and efforts in ways that are clearly immoral, while taken for granted and legal by their promotors. To begin with, I found a little note on a site of a commercial software company (The Omni Group) that is outstanding for its short and direct chutzpah:

“Legal Information

Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy The most powerful tool that we have in our effort to make our products better is the feedback from our users. This means you! We encourage folks to send us bug reports, questions and ideas about how to make our existing products fit their needs more closely. While we also encourage folks to send us their ideas about new products, we must make it clear that any product idea submitted to Omni, either by word of mouth, email, telephone or other means immediately becomes the property of Omni. This means that if we develop your idea or an idea similar to yours, you will not be compensated and it also means that we can use the idea for any purpose, including giving it away.”

Pardon me Sir: if you arrogate that right for yourself, why should not we?

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