Good to see so many people are part of this mailing list. It was good to hear from Eukesh. I had only come across him on his not so good RfA at enwiki :). I really admire the work he has done for the coverage of Nepal and related articles at the English Wikipedia.

Today's signpost [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-06-04/Dutch_government] has an article about the Dutch government releasing photos of all cabinet members under GFDL. This is a landmark move by any government. I hope all the governments including Government of India follows suit soon. I had once uploaded hundreds of photos of our MPs, but they all got deleted under as they did not meet our strict non-free image guidelines.

Is it possible that the Indian government would even consider any petition like this? Any suggestions on how we can also go about petitioning our central and state governments to start thinking about releasing photos under GFDL or PD. Creative-commons has an India chapter now. Could we co-ordinate with them to start putting pressure on our government?

Akash Shah