Licensed under Creative Commons

When it comes to the content on the blogs here, we decided to use Creative Commons license – because we want to share the content with only some rights reserved for ourselves. Also since many people across the globe would be contributing here, we wanted a license which can protect the interests of everyone.

There are four clauses under the creative commons license as defined by the site:

Attribution

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.

Noncommercial

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only

No Derivative Works

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Share Alike

You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Using all these four, we come up with 16 different combinations and out of which only six are regularly used all of which have the Attribution on. For licensing under Creative Commons, you just have to choose a license using the remaining three clauses – which allows permission for commercial use, modification and share-alike.

After researching about all these, we decided that most of the content blogged here would be licensed as below.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 India License.

I say “most of the content” because there will be some blogs (like the codelog) which has lot of code snippets – and it would be difficult when people are bound by the non-commercial clause. So, all the code snippets will be under public domain instead.

Authors are also requested to make sure that the content (text, images, audio, video, code) that they submit all fall under the correct license.

I think we have covered almost all of the licensing issues. If you think there is some place where we may get into trouble, just comment here.

July 22, 2008 | by cnu | Filed Under blogial | Comments Off

Blogs under the blogial network

I need to post here about the blogs which are under the blogial network. Right now we have 4 seperate blogs.

FSLog

Free Software Blog was started by me first on a blogspot domain in 2005 and then moved over to a seperate domain. As the name suggests, I blog here about Free and Open Source Software – news, tutorials, tips and tricks, etc. I was the only blogger out there and has gathered a respectable number of subscribers and good traffic. Right now it will be outside this blogial installation as I haven’t found a sane way of bringing that domain here. When we move over to a better host, we will bring all the domains under blogial

Codelog

Codelog was first started out as ProgrammersLog by Sudarsan on a wordpress.com site. It was all about programming and code snippets. Right now since he is working mostly on C# and .NET, all the current posts are about it. But anyone can post about any language that they want to. Contact sudarsanyes@gmail.com or just comment in the site.

OZ

OZ is a blog specially for people in Australia. Mainly for students who are doing their study in Australia – about the lifestyle, tech events and things happening around there. It is run by Anish who is doing his Masters in Networks in Monash University.

IN

IN is similar to OZ, but entirely about India. Administered by me, it is going to have things that happen in India. Being in Chennai – the blogging capital of India, I hope to get more people to blog in IN.blogial. We also want people from other cities also to post about their cities.

Right now, these are the blogs that we have on the blogial network. We are open to other blogs too – if you also want to contribute content to the network, just register here and do so.

July 20, 2008 | by cnu | Filed Under blogial | Comments Off

Welcome to blogial

Welcome to Blogial.com. Blogial is a small blog network started by two friends who had two seperate blogs.

I have a blog about Free and Open Source software but I had always wanted to blog about various other topics like programming, about my city, etc., but couldn’t dedicate my time on a seperate blog for each topic. Also I didn’t want to post these stuff in my personal blog. So, when Sudarsan started a blog about programming on wordpress.com, I suggested that we start a small blog network where we can cross post in each others blogs. I also had another friend from school Anish, who also wanted to start blogging and so we all joined together and decided to blog about various things that interest us.

Yeah, we know blog networks aren’t much of a craze these days, but blogging isn’t dead. People love to blog and express their opinion about things they are passionate about. We love to blog and passionate about it. This blog network isn’t here to make big money or compete with the big names out there. But we are here to build a social community around blogging.

So, what can people do here are blogial? You can register for a user account and do two things. You can ask for blogging permissions to an existing blog or request us for a new blog about your favourite niche. Just mail us your details, links to your blogs and explain about your blog niche and send us some sample posts.

We plan to grow the community using word of mouth – so if you think someone else may find value by blogging here, send them in.

Right now I am busy setting up the site (we use WordPress-mu) and trying to import my blog into this. We also want some good themes for the site and a logo. If anyone can help us out in that department, we could probably post about you here and link you.