Hi all,
Me an Jan from the WMF have been talking for a while that it could be very
useful to have detailed and structured information on the use of free
licenses by government press services and state archives agencies.
As a first step we have assembled all the national archives and all the
government press services of EU/EEA/CH countries. [1] Now, we might benefit
from your help.
The idea is quite straightforward. We need to gather data on how each of
these organisations currently licenses their works. As a second step, we
will send them a written inquiry on whether they might be open to switching
to open licenses and if not, why. If this fails, we might file freedom of
information requests if we feel like there is data that should be public
but is being withheld.
If think this is an interesting initiative and would like to help us out,
please get in touch here or directly contribute to the Meta-Wiki page.
Cheers and have a great weekend!
Dimi
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1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Engage/FoI