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Submission + - Finnish Police Board Takes Issue With Wikipedia's Fundraising (blogspot.fi) 3

Submitted by linjaaho
linjaaho writes: Yesterday, the admin list of Finnish language Wikipedia received a request for comment from National Police Board of Finland. The Police board claims that the fundraising message appearing on the top of the Wikipedia pages is illegal fundraising and is punishable by criminal law. The Police Board asks how much money have they raised and ask for justification for the campaign.

This is not the first time the Police Board attacks fundraising. In 2012, a crowdfunded textbook Kickstarter project was delayed because a similar request of comment.
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Submission + - Teachers write an open textbook in a weekend hackathon (blogspot.fi)

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linjaaho
linjaaho writes: "A group of Finnish mathematics researchers, teachers and students write an upper secondary mathematics textbook in a three-day booksprint. The event started on Friday 28th September at 9:00 (GMT+3) and the book will be (hopefully) ready on Sunday evening. The book is written in Finnish.

The result — LaTeX source code and the pdf — is published with open CC-BY-license.

As far as the authors know, this is the first time a course textbook is written in three-day hackathon. The hackathon approach has been used earlier mainly for coding open source software and writing manuals for open source software.

The progress can be followed by visiting the repository at Github or the project Facebook page."

Submission + - Finnish bureaucracy to kill crowdfunded textbook project? (kickstarter.com)

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linjaaho
linjaaho writes: "Senja Larsen, a person who runs popular Facebook study group Senja teaches you Swedish, collected $14,161 in Kickstarter crowd funding service. The project caught large media attention in Finland (TV and all major newspapers), since it is the first crowdfunded book project in this country and among the first Finnish crowdfunded projects (the previous ones are Iron Sky movie, Myrskyn Sankarit role playing game and Wishbone headphone wire manager). Now, after successfully collecting the funds for the book (and after the book has been edited and printed), the National Police Board of Finland has asked Senja to submit a statement concerning using Crowdfunding to finance a project and the terminology used. It is possible that all the funding collected must be returned. The main problem is that direct translations of terminology at Kickstarter, such as "bounty" or "support" are interpreted to mean collecting money without giving anything back, and this kind of operation requires a permit which can be only given to associations, not to private persons and it takes long to apply for such permit."
Education

Submission + - Arranging an exam so that students access the internet but can not outsource? (openstudy.com)

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linjaaho
linjaaho writes: "I work as lecturer in a polytechnic. I think traditional exams are not measuring the problem-solving skills of engineering students, because in normal job you can access the internet and literature when solving problems. And it is frustrating to make equation collections and things like that. It would be much easier and more practical to just let the students use the internet to find information for solving problems.

The problem: how can I let the students access the internet and at same time make sure that it is hard enough to cheat, e.g. ask for ready solution for a problem from a site like Openstudy or help with IRC or similar tool other student taking the exam?

Of course it is impossible to make it impossible to cheat, but how to make cheating as hard as in traditional exams?"

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