[Foundation-l] Wikimedia and public sector involvement, connections

[Bence Damokos]

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 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hoi,
> That was the Bundesarchiv.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bundesarchiv
>
> 2009/2/15 Patton 123 <pattonabc at 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 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
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