Peter Suber : SPARC Open Access Newsletter, Issue N°123

This is a good resource for keeping tabs on developments in the Open Access Movement.

There may be an automatic feed of some kind, but I don't know for sure.

Jon

There's info about the associated blog and RSS feed under "housekeeping":

fos/newsletter/07-02-08.htm#housekeeping

fos/fosblog.html

fos/labels/Hot.html

Jon

Suber is on Angela Beesley's Advisory Board to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Yes, I remember seeing that somewhere once before. Lots of people are listed on lots of advisory boards without it necessarily meaning that anyone listens to their advice, though.

Jon

The WMF Advisory Board makes the Board of Trustees appear relevant. From what I've heard nobody at the Foundation has ever consulted the Advisory Board for advice on any matter of significance.

Peter Suber is the inventor of the game Nomic, where the play consists of changing the rules.

I played it way back in the 1980s on the network of Carnegie Mellon University.

The Theory of Polionic Systems


Do you recall the shortest game (minimum number of moves) before the bureaucracy hopelessly tied itself up in red tape?

Between 1993 and 2001 (or thereabouts) I was a Player at Agora Nomic. What fun that was.


My favorite crash of a Nomic game was when Rishonomic adopted a proposal replacing every number in the rules greater than 4 with the word "Yellow". Needless to say, their rules made very little sense after that.

The WP:RULES on Wikipedia never made any sense from the gitgo.