Thats a great idea!
I have started to add some subproject ideas.
mike

2010/5/2 Niklas Cholmkvist <[email protected]>:
> On 1 May 2010 15:22, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
> <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> It sends a bad message to have non free software being promoted our wiki.
>
> John Smith wrote:
>> Companies offering commercial services are also on the wiki, OSM's
>> primary goal is freely available data, there is no demand for only
>> open source software or services.
> Maybe something simple as WikiProject:FLOSS ? [[WikiProject]] redirects to 
> [[Mapping_projects]]
> In the introduction it says:
> "The projects are collaborative efforts by one or more people who have a 
> common interests or goals."
> So the common interest would be 'FLOSS' and the goal 'Free [as in freedom] 
> geodata'
>
> That project doesn't have to "change all content in the wiki", so sites that 
> promote
> openstreetmap also from a software freedom point of view like fsf.org
> could link directly to [[WikiProject_FLOSS]]. Direct link 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_FLOSS
> For the moment it is an empty page, but it could link to software that people 
> can use in freedom to contribute
> free geodata.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Niklas
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