I was going through the Wikibooks study help desk, and a very surprising offer showed up recently: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks%3AStudy_help_desk#How_to_donate_a_dv… "I would like to donate A video taped lecture series on Calculus which have been converted to dvd format. How do I go about doing this? The lecturer is willing to send the dvds to an appropriate uploader, but does not know much about computer programming himself. The lectures were taped at The University of Missouri - Kansas City. "Please send any information you have to: micheleforan(a)sbcglobal.net "Thankyou" I find this an incredibly generous offer, and something that supports both Wikibooks and Wikiversity in a great many ways, although most media content like this generally is sent to Commons. There are some other technical issues here involved as well, simply due to the sheer quantity of material here that is going to be offered, which is one reason why I'm trying to vet this idea here on Foundation-l. In addition to trying to figure out just what Wikimedia sister project this ought to be sent to for further assistance, I would like to know what the status is right now for storage of large numbers of video files. I noticed that the [[Commons:Category:Video]] has several video files listed, although almost all of them are generally very short clips. This offer as it currently stands could potentially be several gigabytes of data, which would dwarf the entire video category by itself. There is also the comparatively minor issue of trying to convert the files from MPEG format to OGG or other patent-free (or compatable with the GFDL) formats, but I think we can find some individuals to help out with that on the various Wikimedia projects. That is not the major issue at the moment. I guess this is also a political issue in the sense of wheither the WMF wants to get into the business of hosting DVD-video length content on its servers. The costs of doing so I would guess would be rather substantial for bandwidth costs alone, assuming several individuals are all trying to download these huge files, which has been an issue raised in the past. Video files havn't been explicitly restricted from Wikimedia projects, but then again most of the video that is used is comparatively small snippets at the moment. Any thoughts or ideas on this topic are significantly appreciated. -- Robert Scott Horning