Please join for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at Wikimedia *Presenter:* Stephen LaPorte *Date:* October 23, 2015 *Time: *17:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Introduction+to+Free+and+Open+Source+Licensing+at+Wikimedia&iso=20151023T17&p1=%3A&ah=1 - 17:30 UTC Link to live YouTube stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWiDimlK4bE *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office Google+ page https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/caldda1kv3bnde8d50qi4nkf82s, another place for questions
*Summary: *The Wikimedia Foundation maintains and contributes to some significant free and opens source projects. This talk will discuss free and open source licensing best practices and why it's important for Wikimedia. We'll review different types of licenses, common terms, and how to use them. This talk will be introductory, and there will be an opportunity for questions and discussion.
Reminder: this tech talk starts in 50 minutes
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarrand@wikimedia.org wrote:
Please join for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at Wikimedia *Presenter:* Stephen LaPorte *Date:* October 23, 2015 *Time: *17:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Introduction+to+Free+and+Open+Source+Licensing+at+Wikimedia&iso=20151023T17&p1=%3A&ah=1 - 17:30 UTC Link to live YouTube stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWiDimlK4bE *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office Google+ page https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/caldda1kv3bnde8d50qi4nkf82s, another place for questions
*Summary: *The Wikimedia Foundation maintains and contributes to some significant free and opens source projects. This talk will discuss free and open source licensing best practices and why it's important for Wikimedia. We'll review different types of licenses, common terms, and how to use them. This talk will be introductory, and there will be an opportunity for questions and discussion.
I just watched this. Thanks, Stephen for the excellent overview! Very approachable.
This may be slightly off-topic for this particular list, but: have there been any similar talks focusing on content licenses for article text and (perhaps especially) images?
Jonathan
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Rachel Farrand rfarrand@wikimedia.org wrote:
Reminder: this tech talk starts in 50 minutes
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarrand@wikimedia.org wrote:
Please join for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at
Wikimedia
*Presenter:* Stephen LaPorte *Date:* October 23, 2015 *Time: *17:00 UTC <
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Introd...
17:30 UTC Link to live YouTube stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWiDimlK4bE *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office Google+ page <
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/caldda1kv3bnde8d5..., another
place for questions
*Summary: *The Wikimedia Foundation maintains and contributes to some significant free and opens source projects. This talk will discuss free
and
open source licensing best practices and why it's important for
Wikimedia.
We'll review different types of licenses, common terms, and how to use them. This talk will be introductory, and there will be an opportunity
for
questions and discussion.
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Jonathan, Thank you for the reminder that I failed the send out the follow up to this tech talk.
---------- If you missed Friday's talk and would like to view the recording, here is the link: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWiDimlK4bE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWiDimlK4bE* It has been released under a creative commons license.
If you have any questions please get in touch with Stephan LaPorte < slaporte@wikimedia.org>
You can check out past tech talk recordings at the MediaWiki YouTube page here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4wlhlN8RjP6_e_vMC4CTA
If you have an idea for a future tech talk that you would like to nominate one, please add your suggestions here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event/Tec...
--------- To answer your question, I have not run a tech talk on that topic, however that does not mean it might not exist somewhere else. You can see all of the previous tech talk topics here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
If someone would like to volunteer to run a tech talk on "content licenses for article text and images" (or anything else) I would be happy to run the talk. Just let me know. :)
Rachel
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
I just watched this. Thanks, Stephen for the excellent overview! Very approachable.
This may be slightly off-topic for this particular list, but: have there been any similar talks focusing on content licenses for article text and (perhaps especially) images?
Jonathan
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Rachel Farrand rfarrand@wikimedia.org wrote:
Reminder: this tech talk starts in 50 minutes
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Rachel Farrand <rfarrand@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Please join for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at
Wikimedia
*Presenter:* Stephen LaPorte *Date:* October 23, 2015 *Time: *17:00 UTC <
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Introd...
17:30 UTC Link to live YouTube stream <
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWiDimlK4bE%3E
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office Google+ page <
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/caldda1kv3bnde8d5...
, another
place for questions
*Summary: *The Wikimedia Foundation maintains and contributes to some significant free and opens source projects. This talk will discuss free
and
open source licensing best practices and why it's important for
Wikimedia.
We'll review different types of licenses, common terms, and how to use them. This talk will be introductory, and there will be an opportunity
for
questions and discussion.
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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