How to Open Content
This post is a summary of wikiHow to Open Content, written in eHow format.
Steps
- Buy a dot com out of hock
- Select an wiki and adapt it to your content
- Work with your community
- Adopt Creative Commons licensing
- Help it grow by sharing control
Tips
- Focus on developing the right social contract for your community.
- Bring up the licensing question early
- Consider open source wiki alternatives
- Bootstrap and moonlight
Warnings
- There is no analytical framework for the decision to open intellectual property
- Your existing community may not understand the benefits of Copyleft
- Bloggers may rightly give you hell for leaning Copyright
