[Foundation-l] Advertisement and service at the same time

[David Gerard]

On 21/03/2008, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  Now, his other best dream would be to find the book in electronic
>  version in wikibooks. He considers that the job of the local
>  associations and Foundation should be to identify out-of-print
>  specialist books, contact and visit their editor, and convince them to
>  release the books under a free licence :-)


This is very close to a proposal Danny Wool just made on his blog:

http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/03/trouble-with-orphans.html

Basically: a subproject to (1) list orphaned works (2) use WMF's voice
to get them freed up. Mostly what it needs is someone to actually take
an interest and start on it.


- d.