Comments on: On Sustainability http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/196 pragmatism over zeal Fri, 18 May 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Situativity http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/196/comment-page-1#comment-2782 Situativity Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:59:07 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/196#comment-2782 <strong>Sustaining Open Source...</strong> iterating toward openness » On Sustainability It sounds like I missed a great conference based on all of the posts I have read. The issue of sustainability is not unique to open content. It is a problem with nearly every...... Sustaining Open Source…

iterating toward openness » On Sustainability It sounds like I missed a great conference based on all of the posts I have read. The issue of sustainability is not unique to open content. It is a problem with nearly every……

]]> By: Jay Pfaffman http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/196/comment-page-1#comment-805 Jay Pfaffman Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:58:03 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/196#comment-805 Even though NSF funds paid my stipends in grad school and monies generated by NSF-funded still pay for me to have a nice dinner with former professors and colleagues, this stuff has always ticked me off. As a 2nd year un-tenured professor, I arranged for a mirror of 50 or so GB of K12LTSP's stuff. I'm pretty sure that I could similarly arrange to have ENC.org mirrored with a little lead time. I can't be unique. And, did I mention, this is my third year at a land grant institution? The folks that built that archive, or as the case may be, enabled other people to create it (I'm not really familiar with it), could have, in 10 minutes, had someone host the stuff for free. Indefinitely. Even though NSF funds paid my stipends in grad school and monies generated by NSF-funded still pay for me to have a nice dinner with former professors and colleagues, this stuff has always ticked me off.

As a 2nd year un-tenured professor, I arranged for a mirror of 50 or so GB of K12LTSP’s stuff. I’m pretty sure that I could similarly arrange to have ENC.org mirrored with a little lead time. I can’t be unique. And, did I mention, this is my third year at a land grant institution? The folks that built that archive, or as the case may be, enabled other people to create it (I’m not really familiar with it), could have, in 10 minutes, had someone host the stuff for free. Indefinitely.

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