The Holland Open Source Platform (HOSP) was launched last summer to coordinate open-source and open-content initiatives in the Netherlands. The web site is in Dutch, but you can find English-language details in Koen Vervloesem's article from yesterday's NewsForge. Excerpt:
Officially founded last summer, HOSP has the goal of bringing together all existing initiatives around open source software, open content, and open standards in the Netherlands. More specifically, HOSP has chosen these four goals: [1] Advocate open standards in information technology, promote open information processing, and stimulate open source software; [2] Look after the interests of organisations, corporations, persons, and communities that have this same goal; [3] Bring together diverse local and national initiatives and give them a forum for knowledge exchange; [4] Serve as contact point for similar initiatives in other countries....In its own initiatives, HOSP wants to stress the advantages of open information technology for the Dutch society. [Jo] Lahaye [Chairman of HOSP] says, "We will mainly focus on local knowledge acquisition of open software systems and development methods, and on digital durability of processed and stored information. Above all, we want to stress that information has to be transparent in education, science, and government."...[Lahaye also says:] "Currently other disciplines are adopting the practices of open source communities, as in open research, open education, and open content (Creative Commons). Powerful communities can arise here functioning as a motor for our knowledge economy. HOSP wants to facilitate the new business models needed for these communities or created by them and to spread knowledge about these innovations."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/21/2005 11:11:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
