About Potto

The Potto Project is a community collaborative effort to write quality textbooks for colleges and anyone, operates in the spirit of the open-content movement. We are inspired by the open-content movement and we are using the open-content model to drive Potto.

On one side, big organizations, such as those controlling Hollywood media, support laws governing what we find is unthinkable: copyright [essentially] forever.

While the driving force behind “copyright forever” is economic, it is immoral.

We can‘t ourselves slay Goliath. We cannot provide every possible alternative to material that is governed by the “copyright forever”s` forces, but we can do something.

Potto is our little something, enabling the availability of quality textbooks for college students and anyone who might be interested.

Currently is what we have do so far, there are three textbooks which contain several best chapters in the world which are available for download. In addition, Potto has auxiliary materials such as the gas dynamics tables (the largest tables collection in the world), Gas Dynamics Calculator (Potto-GDC), etc.

The combined downloads of these books is over half a million (December 2009) or in a rate of 20,000 copies a month (to see more about the downloads estimate here). Potto books on compressible flow and fluid mechanics are used as the main textbook or as a reference book in several universities around the world.

The initiator of this project, Dr. Genick Bar-Meir, hopes that many others will join his efforts, which can truly benefit the society worldwide.
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About Potto Project

Potto Project has been created by Dr. Genick Bar-Meir and friends to build open source software and open content textbooks for college students. Over 500,000 (half million) Potto Project books were downloaded from 165 different countries since 2005.

Potto Project is under open content licenses, which means that you will always have the freedom to use it, make copies of it, and improve it. You are encouraged to make use of these freedoms and share the textbooks and program with your family and friends!