Very impressed with the attention to detail. Thank you.
Best, Gautam ________ http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 29 March 2011 09:14, Naveen Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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. But >> unfortunately when the site is released to public, license was pointing to a >> NC-ND license. 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, 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 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 <[email protected]> >>> 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 >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > > > > -- > Naveen Francis > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
