One month back GoK published an advt with the photo of singer K J Yesudas. The photo was taken from wikipedia which was contributed by wikipedia Rakesh Konni. PRD contacted Rakesh and gave the advt with proper credits.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesudas http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6783895&id=572276469 https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_2KcMdwlkkNc/TXSBdoGmhBI/AAAAAAAAD-c/yY4WergcqR4/s800/TP%2006%20KJY%208x6%20feet.jpg * On 29 March 2011 00:19, Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would you like to share some information about your latest effort? >> > > Naveen, Thanks for sharing this news in India list. > > As Naveen mentioned below, the license of http://www.ldfkeralam.org/ is > changed to a free license that is compatible with the wikipedia license. > LDF is the current ruling coalition of Kerala. Now it is election season in > Kerala and the above site is setup as part of election campaign. > > The IT sub-committee of LDF in principle has decided to use free licenses > and free software in various places. Many of the people behind > http://www.ldfkeralam.org/ have awareness about free software. In fact the > site admin is a veteran Malayalam wikipedian. When LDF had decided to start > the site, the license of the site was decided as CC-BY-SA 2.5 > IN<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/deed.en>. > But unfortunately when the site is released to public, license was pointing > to a NC-ND > license<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in/deed.en>. > I pointed this and they immediately corrected it. It was possible only > because the people behind the site have awareness about the importance of > free software licenses. > > Later when other district committees of LDF started website they also > followed it since the mother site is using free license. There were cases of > some district commitees using NC/ND license. But they corrcted it as soon as > we pointed the issue in using non-free licenses. *Now there are many LDF > sites using free license.* > > Wiki community could use photos (and the content also) of some of the > notable LDF candidates. Since the content and images are free, people could > freely use it across web for their blog, buzz, and so on. > > Few days back I have shared this story with few Indian language > wikimedians. I requested some of them to see whether it is possible to > replicate this in other Indian states. > > > For instance, how easy or difficult was it to convince government >> officials? Did it involve going into a lot of details with them? > > > Awareness about free software and free licenses among government officials > is very important. If the officials sitting at the other end doesn't have > awareness about these things then nothing is possible. In the past, > Malayalam wiki community and other Malayalam free software organizations > (for example, SMC) have initiated various programs to create that awareness. > We are happy to see that slowly that efforts are yielding. > > In Kerala, this is not the first time State Government or political parties > or non government organizations are changing the license of their website to > a license that is compatible with Wikipedia license. As mentioned in this > mail thread, > <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-November/001260.html>way > back in 2008, Kerala Government had officially announced that it is > changing the license of govt. encyclopedic project in Malayalam > (sarvavijanakosam) to Free documentation > license<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>so that Malayalam wiki community > could reuse its content to develop > Malayalam wikipedia. This was done in 2008 December while Jimmy and Sue were > in Thiruvananthapuram to attend the free software conference. > > > > We expect more happy news in the near future. > > > Shiju > > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> This is amazing! Congratulations, Shiju. >> >> Would you like to share some information about your latest effort? For >> instance, how easy or difficult was it to convince government officials? >> Did it involve going into a lot of details with them? >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> Anirudh Bhati >> >> 00 91 9328712208 >> Skype: anirudhsbh >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Naveen Francis <navee...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> It is election season in Kerala. >>> I have one good news to share with you all. >>> Shiju Alex has convinced LDF election web team to change there site >>> license to creative commons license. >>> http://www.ldfkeralam.org/ >>> >>> And now we are having images of candidates in commons and process is in >>> progress. >>> >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_ldfkeralam.org_website >>> >>> Before this we didn't had images for many ministers in Kerala >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_S_Achuthanandan_Ministry >>> >>> He has also convinced http://www.ldfkannur.org/ web team to change there >>> license. Now they are also creative commons. >>> >>> Thanks a lot Shiju !!! ... Need more site creative commons >>> >>> I think it is change in happening though it is slow. >>> >>> -- >>> Naveen Francis >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Naveen Francis
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