Lynda.com for Open Source Learning

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Lynda.com is the most successful education materials site, with revenue of $100M. OSE is interested in doing an open source materials version.

Challenges of Lynda.com

  • Keeping content updated is a challenge - [1]

OSE Version

  • Because platform is open source and source files are included - continuing updates can be made.

Proposed Governance Model

Everyone has free access to materials.

Free version includes the OSE brand.

Design for Incorruptability: contributions are VOLUNTARY and in the Gift Economy! Contribution mechanism is purpose-driven.

Open source contributors have free access to all materials based on a gift economy model. So do contributors to Open Source Ecology - OSE contributions are measured via commits to a repository.

Subscribers pay for content. Issue: must resolve access issue by motivating open culture via

Contributors get 90% of all revenue generated from their video. Lean Foundation keeps 10% for operations: funding developers, etc.

This contributes to the OSE Campus education.

Value-added can be in the form of Distillation: shortening and improving rapid-learning qualities of videos for faster learners.

This is intended to be the new education system of the world.

Entire repository is OSE-branded for the common future heritage.

OSE content is watermarked. Others are able to use content, but with OSE branding unless they pay a fee to remove OSE branding.

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