Wikipedia :wikipedia: is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki -- at least that's what our Wikipedia article says (https://w.wiki/W).
Last month the long-awaited switch to version 4.0 of the @creativecommons license went into effect for #Wikipedia and its sister projects! :cc: :ccby: :ccsa:
Learn how this will enable the reuse of more free content in Wikipedia, simplify attribution requirements and more in a post by the #Wikimedia Foundation legal team:
years ago, I tried to set up an umbrella organization for podcasters and such. We went through some name changes but for the longest time was referred to as the Netizen Empowerment Federation. At the time, I think part of the problem was there were a number of folks that wanted to be involved that were really doing different things, but maybe it is time to revisit something of this nature for #ccmusic since CC HQ is hostile to music.
@wjmaggos I don't remember all the history but basically #freeculture was defined to align with #freesoftware. BY-NC-SA seems to be far and away the highest license in music so doing something just libre cuts out pretty much everybody
My #30DayFOSSChallenge is officially over. It was a great experience diving deeper into #foss and thinking about it, especially trying to test the limits of how feasible going fully foss is for me, and talking to non-tech people about software freedom issues.
I will have a blog post up soon, but I'm still working through my thoughts.
If you want to do a favor to the FREE (as beer) #pcb design community, dont use jlcpcb multicolor stuff. The design files are cryptographically tied to jlcpcb so no one else can manufacture them.
(edited after precisions from @jaseg - thats less bad than I had originally understood)
Still public domain, still a free wizard! If you want a version with trannsparent-bg just use the one I posted yesterday, it actually is pretty when not upscaled by Mastodon :3.
I'm sorry to learn John Fielder has passed away. He was the best-known photographer of Colorado's beautiful landscapes. Toward the end of his life, he donated his work to the public domain, so he should be recognized for supporting free culture as well. #freeculture
Here's a #freeculture question: if I have licensed some of my own writing under a Creative Commons license with a non-commercial aspect, am I still allowed to sell the writing?
Because today I wanted to send a write up of a COMMON classroom activity to a substitute and had to spend 40 minutes searching through subscription only educator sites, mommy blogs that embed the instructions deep inside of rambling stories to drive engagement and ad revenue, and videos that deliberately withheld key information in order to sell their book!
This was a basic engineering activity that has been done for decades! We don't need 20 people competing to find a way to squeeze profit out of an old idea! We need teachers to work together to make one shared beautiful accessible write up!
I just requested a book from the San Francisco Public library to be delivered to the San Diego Public Library branch close to me, all for free, and I think this is amazing.
Interested in #FOSS but haven't taken the time to explore it? Or familiar but wanting to dive deeper? Have no idea what that is, but are interested in decreasing your reliance on evil corporations?
If any of the above, check out the #30DayFOSSChallenge. In April I will be posting all about it, and encouraging others to join me. Hope you come along for the journey.
First week of #30DayFOSSChallenge is coming to an end. My blogpost will be a few days late because I'll be camping for the #eclipse but I'm excited by what's already happening.