Jure Cuhalev

Wikimania 2008 was a blast. Here are just a few more bits of information that didn’t have a place in other posts.
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Cool projects
PediaPress is a project that allows you to turn Wikipedia pages into actual books. They have an open-source MediaWiki extension, so you can run this on your own wiki. The coolest [...]

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What is Wikimedia Commons:
 

Central resource for Wikimedia
Wiki – anyone can edit, be bold, etc.
Media – it’s not text, it’s especially images
Multilingual – all the languages inside the single wiki
Free Content – all the files are availalbe under Free Licenses
Community – lots of people who consider this their “wiki home”

 
It’s a rapidly growing project [...]

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Free Software Definition
 
The freedom to:
 

Use software for any purpose (libra, not gratis)
Study and modify
Distribute copies to others
Collabroate and share your changes

 
Read more at the FSF page: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
 
Free Software is really about Control. Communications technologies that we use have profound effect on how people communicate. This is immense power, that we [...]