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This migration would be a huge boost for the free culture movement, and for Wikipedia and Creative Commons — until the migration happens there is an unnecessary licensing barrier between the most important free culture project (Wikipedia of course, currently under the Free Documentation License, intended for software documentation) and most other free culture projects and individual creators, which use the aforementioned CC BY-SA license.

To qualify to vote, one must have made 25 edits to a Wikimedia site prior to March 15. Make sure you’re logged in to the project on which you qualify, and you should see a site notice at the top of each page that looks like the image below (red outline added around notice).

Click on “vote now” and you’ll be taken to the voting site. [Update: If you see a different site notice, it's because other important notices about the Wikimania conference are rotating with the vote notice. In that case you can go directly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/1. For other Wikimedia sites, change en.wikipedia to the domain of the site in question.]

For background on the migration process, see Wikimedia’s licensing update article and the following series of posts on the Creative Commons blog:

• On being a creative commoner
• Wikipedia and attribution
• Wikipedia licensing Q&A posted
• Wikipedia/CC news: FSF releases FDL 1.3
• Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses released
• DRAFT Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses
• Approved for Free Cultural Works
• Wikipedia and Creative Commons next steps
• Progress on license interoperability with Wikipedia

Here’s a great “propaganda poster”, original created by Brianna Laugher (cited a number of times on this blog), licensed under CC BY. See her post, Vote YES for licensing sanity!

Indeed, please go vote yes to unify the free culture movement!

Fapper3 could be an interesting experiment also for international artists that want to distribute their works (music, videos, texts…) on the Italian market in a totally indipendent way.

Look at the following video: Fpml team is assembling the Fapper3 package, ironically explaining the project (in Italian, please help translating/subtitling).

Public administration represents almost 10% of the market, equivalent to a cost of almost 300 millions euros. A cost that would become a saving of public money if the government would choose free software.

Of course , there would be other costs, but nothing if compared to so high amounts and if we look at them as investments on our future. We challange everyone to find negative aspects in this free revolution.

At the beginning free software should be developed as new or adapted to Italian public administration needs, but this would be paid only one time and then there would be only update and upgrade costs; everyone would have access to a public common of great value; a new economy sector would be fully activated, Italian freelance professionals would be incentivated, as research and innovation in our country…

What are we waiting for? Lets ask free software to our politicans!