[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

[Frederick "FN" Noronha]

Just some suggestions:

1. Government-funded software.
2. Archives.
3. All UN-related publications.
4. Photographs of archival value.
5. Textbooks.
6. Out-of-print books.
7. Documentary film and sharable footage.
8. Music created by non-corporate artistes.
9. Recordings of state-funded radio stations.
10 Newspapers' content (which are over 24 hours old, in case of dailies)
11 Local language computing solutions
12 Translations tools across languages.
13 Archives of content of all websites prior to 2005.
14 Government records and files over five years old.

Big dreams. But who knows, somethings actually start with a dream.

Frederick Noronha
Co-Founder
BytesForAll
South Asia


On 15/10/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you
> would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of
> generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be
> purchased and freed.
>
> Dream big.  Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase
> copyrights to be made available under a free license.  What would you
> like to see purchased and released under a free license?
>
> Photos libraries? textbooks? newspaper archives? Be bold, be specific,
> be general, brainstorm, have fun with it.
>
> I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a
> position to make this happen, and he wanted to know what we need, what
> we dream of, that we can't accomplish on our own, or that we would
> expect to take a long time to accomplish on our own.
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