There has been a 100k image donation by the German federal archive (Bundesarchiv). A brief description of the project is on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv Regards, ChrisiPK Patton 123 schrieb:

Hi,Thank you for your replies. Are there any notable examples you could mention, or point me to? Best regards, Bence On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com > Hoi, > That was the Bundesarchiv. > Thanks, > GerardM > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bundesarchiv > > 2009/2/15 Patton 123 <pattonabc(a)gmail.com> > > > Recently 100,000 historical photos were released by some German agency > > (Can't think of it's name) to the wikimedia commons. > > > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com> > > > > > Dear all,I was wondering if any of you know of cases where there has > been > > > any (official) connection between members of the public sector and > > projects > > > of Wikimedia (or other independent projects under free licences). > > > > > > I would be interested in cases, when for example > > > * the local government has used for example Wikisource to publish its > > > statutes or provided other kinds of content for it > > > * the legislative has included material from Wikipedia in the > explanatory > > > section of their bills > > > * members of the public sector approached the WMF (or its chapters) for > > > advice on free licences and their use in the public sector. > > > > > > I would be interested in cases outside Wikimedia, where a government > has > > > chosen open content licences to publish their data. > > > > > > I have heard of some cases that would fit one of the above categories > > (e.g. > > > the Dutch government releasing some photos) but I have not found a > > > comprehensive list to judge the extent of the possible cooperation that > > > might be going on. > > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Bence Damokos > > > _______________________________________________ > > > foundation-l mailing list > > > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 21:28, Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com> wrote: http://www.nachwachsende-rohstoffe.info/nachricht.php?id=20070626-02 And I believe Wikimedia Israel did some work on influencing the copyright law. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Israeli_new_copyright_law Cheers, Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org