The Free Software Foundation has launched a campaign to support Ogg http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg
Wikimedia Commons is not on the Friendly Sites list. I have just sent them an email pointing that, but someone from WMF (Jay?) may want to also talk with them.
I copy the brief below:
I'm writing today to ask you to support the Play Ogg campaign (http://playogg.org).
Are you tired of constantly being prompted to download proprietary software and plugins to play the videos and listen to the music you want? Are you fed up with seeing new gadgets that only use incompatible and restrictive audio and video formats? Did you know that it's not a lack of technological know-how that causes this, but software patents and other legal restrictions?
Increasingly proprietary software companies like Microsoft, Apple and Adobe are pushing video and audio formats that restrict access and restrict software developers, but there is an alternative that can be played on all computers without restriction—Ogg.
Ogg provides professional grade multimedia formats. Ogg is used extensively by free software projects, artists and a growing number of music and video distributors.
Soon over a million children and their families will be receiving the One Laptop per Child XO computer designed to play and create Ogg files. By advocating now for Ogg we can help ensure that those children will gain access to, and not be unnecessarily restricted from thousands of educational resources and materials on the web.
Join us in advocating for Ogg right now by taking 4 Easy Steps: Install VLC multimedia player, sign-up for the PlayOgg advocate mailing list, find and share Ogg friendly sites, and put PlayOgg Buttons on your web site or blog. After all that, if you are still looking for more to do, consider encouraging others to do the same.
Start here: http://playogg.org/
yea wikipedia commons should certainly be on that list :) I will mention it to Joshua Gay ( Free Software Foundation campaigns manager ) next time I see him on IRC as well.
peace, michael
Platonides wrote:
The Free Software Foundation has launched a campaign to support Ogg http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg
Wikimedia Commons is not on the Friendly Sites list. I have just sent them an email pointing that, but someone from WMF (Jay?) may want to also talk with them.
I copy the brief below:
I'm writing today to ask you to support the Play Ogg campaign (http://playogg.org).
Are you tired of constantly being prompted to download proprietary software and plugins to play the videos and listen to the music you want? Are you fed up with seeing new gadgets that only use incompatible and restrictive audio and video formats? Did you know that it's not a lack of technological know-how that causes this, but software patents and other legal restrictions?
Increasingly proprietary software companies like Microsoft, Apple and Adobe are pushing video and audio formats that restrict access and restrict software developers, but there is an alternative that can be played on all computers without restriction—Ogg.
Ogg provides professional grade multimedia formats. Ogg is used extensively by free software projects, artists and a growing number of music and video distributors.
Soon over a million children and their families will be receiving the One Laptop per Child XO computer designed to play and create Ogg files. By advocating now for Ogg we can help ensure that those children will gain access to, and not be unnecessarily restricted from thousands of educational resources and materials on the web.
Join us in advocating for Ogg right now by taking 4 Easy Steps: Install VLC multimedia player, sign-up for the PlayOgg advocate mailing list, find and share Ogg friendly sites, and put PlayOgg Buttons on your web site or blog. After all that, if you are still looking for more to do, consider encouraging others to do the same.
Start here: http://playogg.org/
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Michael Dale wrote:
yea wikipedia commons should certainly be on that list :) I will mention it to Joshua Gay ( Free Software Foundation campaigns manager ) next time I see him on IRC as well.
peace, michael
Please don't do that. Ask him to add *Wikimedia* Commons instead! People already confuse enough by themselves. ;)
Really, all the Wikimedia projects qualify, not just Commons.
Thanks, Pharos
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Dale wrote:
yea wikipedia commons should certainly be on that list :) I will mention it to Joshua Gay ( Free Software Foundation campaigns manager ) next time I see him on IRC as well.
peace, michael
Please don't do that. Ask him to add *Wikimedia* Commons instead! People already confuse enough by themselves. ;)
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Pharos wrote:
Really, all the Wikimedia projects qualify, not just Commons.
Thanks, Pharos
Agree. I told fsf in my email. Have them list Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Wikinews... but not the "Wikipedia Foundation" or a wrong named project.
Hoi, The Wiktionary projects are missing. They have probably more ogg files then any of the other projects. Thanks, GerardM
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Pharos wrote:
Really, all the Wikimedia projects qualify, not just Commons.
Thanks, Pharos
Agree. I told fsf in my email. Have them list Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Wikinews... but not the "Wikipedia Foundation" or a wrong named project.
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Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, The Wiktionary projects are missing. They have probably more ogg files then any of the other projects. Thanks, GerardM
I wrote it by heart. We have too many projects!
Here is what I sent after checking the project list on wikipedia: (...) It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, among which Wikipedia is the most prominent example, but other projects (wikibooks, wiktionary, wikispecies, wikiquote, wikisource, wikinews, wikiversity...) also benefit from it (...)
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