What can the #Wikimedia movement learn from #FOSDEM?

1. How to welcome a huge flood of offline and online participants for free and without asking or collecting any personal data
2. How to organize an event exclusively with #FreeSoftware

Read more: diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/14/…

What we can learn from the world upside down at FOSDEM, the largest existing conference organized with open software (and you can even listen to the audio)

They report around 12,000 participants. The largest event in the world dedicated to Free software has been held every year in Brussels since 2000 and is free, built entirely with free software and …

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The votes have been counted, announcing the 2022 #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year

Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Little egret (Egretta garzetta) and Gadwell duck (Mareca strepera) in Taudaha Lake, near Katmandu, Nepal.

Attribution: Prasan Shrestha / CC-BY-SA 4.0

3,600+ voters selected this picture first out of 1,102 featured pictures and 55 other finalists!

See the rest of the results: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spe…

#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons