[FOSsil Bank Update] 15 December 2012

[Chris Sakkas]

Hi folks,

Another few weeks, another update. I hope you've all been enjoying Creative Commons' 10th birthday as much as I have!

#FundFreeCulture

• So You Want to Be a Librarian, on unglue.it, a book about how to become a librarian and what the profession means (18 days left; $2,054/$9,000) (CC BY-SA)
• The Free Software Foundation is running a membership drive.
• Uniluug has a 2012 libre gift guide, the FSF has a 2012 free software giving guide, and opensource.com has a 2012 open source gift guide.
• The third Vicious Crucible (pick-up-and-play tabletop RPGs), Argentate Drift, is on Kickstarter. (23 days left; $776/$2,000) (CC BY-SA)
• Widgiverse, a voxel-based electronic game, is on Kickstarter. (14 days left; $367/$49,000) (public domain)
• Wikipedia is running a fundraising drive.
  

Follow-up

• I uploaded some key assets from Japanese RPG Monster RPG 2, which was successfully ransomed by the last update, to Open Game Art. (CC0)
• DocGraph is a dataset that shows connections between doctors, specialists and so on. Funded with $45,011 of the goal of $35,000. (CC BY-SA, but only after 6 months)
• Learn Game Programming (codeschool.org) was a Kickstarter project to fund a video series for novice programmers. It was funded with $7,005 of the goal of $700. (CC BY-SA, it appears)

Libre works on the FOSsil Bank

I spun the recipe category out of the hardware category instead of describing food as 'edible hardware'.

• On the Commons is a strategy centre focused on creating a commons-based society. (CC BY-SA)
• Game-icons.net has almost a thousand vector icons, many with a fantasy theme. (CC BY)
• Blend Swap is a repository of ‘blends’ (files for the 3D manipulation software Blender). (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA)
• deviantART is a massive art website. (Libre and proprietary CC licences, and all rights reserved) http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:deviantart
• Vimeo is a video-hosting site. (Libre and proprietary CC licences, and all rights reserved)
• Josh Roby is a tabletop RPG designer. (CC BY-SA)
• The Vicious Crucible of the Eburnean Tower is a tabletop RPG. (CC BY-SA)
• The Vicious Crucible of Verdigris Valley is a tabletop RPG. (CC BY-SA)
• Pratham Books is a publisher of multicultural and multilingual children’s books. (CC BY for the books, CC BY-NC-SA for the audiobooks)
• Creative Commons: A User Guide has been translated into Spanish.
  

Shareable resources on the FOSsil Bank

• Open Test is a database for people to collaborate on test questions. (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Bhaloidam is a tabletop RPG about tribes. (CC BY-NC)
• openDemocracy is a news site. (CC BY-NC or all rights reserved)
• Records on Ribs is a music label. (CC BY-NC-SA)
• The Ware Tetralogy is a sci-fi series about human-cyborg relations. (CC BY-NC-ND)
• Dublab’s #cc10 Mix is an hour of electronica music created for CC’s birthday. (CC BY-NC) 

Reminder: FOSsil Bank has a mailing list!

Thanks to the good people at the OKFN, there’s a mailing list for the FOSsil Bank:

• http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fossil-bank

Feel free to share this update with whomever you like,

Chris Sakkas
Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and Twitter feed.