The first entries for the desing contest are in. The one above I
dubbed mirror1. The original deadline has been extended
to february 14th. Afterwards readers of this site will be able to vote
online for the winning concept. More details can be found in this post.
Here is another one, tile1.
I will replace the old header image by new entries to test how they
fit in.
If you are the creative type and like to improve the sight of
this site, here\’s a little challenge :
the
task : Design a logo/header picture for NeverEndingBooks to
replace the one above. Here are the required Photoshop parameters :
Image size : 500 x 150 pixels, Grayscale (for later use on the frontpage
of books) saved as a Jpeg optimized for the web (try to keep it under
15K). But please keep also the uncompressed image for later use in
publishing. If possible, combine this with favicons (the little 16×16 pixel
picture near the URL) for NeverEndingBooks and one (possibly the same)
for TheLibrary.
the procedure : Submit
your logo (and possibly favicons) attached to a mail. If we receive more
than one reply, the different designs will be posted here anonymously
and a sidebar online poll will decide the winner.
the
reward : The winner gets his/her name(link) mentioned in the
sidebar as well as on all NeverEndingBooks-productions. Moreover, (s)he
will receive one free copy of every book (and possibly merchandising)
bearing his/her logo.
the deadline : asap! if
possible within the week, if necessary by the end of this month at the
latest.
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that offers a flexible copyright for creative work. Creative Commons
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rights reserved – and the public domain – no rights reserved. Their
licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of
your work Рa “some rights reserved” copyright. Extensive
information about their licenses and their legal concepts can be found
here. Soon they will
launch their Science
Commons project which they describe as :
The mission of
Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it
easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature,
data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their
knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright
and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove
barriers to sharing.
Meanwhile, NeverEndingBooks.org
has taken a Attribution-
NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Belgium license. Here is what it
means
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That is, if you use any results contained in the texts offered by
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information
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as you would do (I hope) with any
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‚Äòfair use’ of the material. That is, you can build upon results
contained in the texts assuming you give proper reference (see
above).
Finally, the Belgium-part of the license means that the
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Dutch and in
French) works under Belgian law, see here for more
details.
As stated, this is the default (fairly restrictive)
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be specified by the appropriate icons (see here for other possible
licenses, among which certainly the Developing
Nations license deserves to be promoted). The licenses are also
readable to robots visisting this site and in the near future we will
also include the xmp-metadata
into all available pdf-files.