Freedom in Feb — an awareness increasing campaign
You have heard about the Ice bucket challenge (and the rice bucket challenge). You may have heard about the 100happinessdays challenge (and its Wikipedia version 100wikidayschallenge). You may have heard and participated in the November no shaving challenge. Some of these campaigns are organized to increase awareness about different social issues. Now here the Centre for Internet and Society, India brings to you a campaign called Freedom In Feb.
Freedom in Feb (FiF, hashtag #freedominfeb) is a campaign to be conducted in the month of February. The objective of the initiative is to increase awareness of free content and free licenses. The name of this campaign “Freedom in Feb” was coined by Sunil Abraham, the Executive Director of The Centre for Internet and Society, India.
Event dates
The first iteration of the event will take place between 0:00 UTC on 1 February 2017 and 23:59 UTC on 28 February 2017.
Rules
The rule to participate in this challenge is simple:
- The works you will create or publish in February you have to release those under free licenses such as the Creative Commons licenses or under public domain.
- The content includes your blog post, writing, image on Facebook, or Instagram, or your Tweets (no “all rights reserved” please :)).
- If releasing all content under free licenses is not possible, please try to release as much as content under the free licenses this February.
So, this Feb, please release your works under the free licenses, and encourage others to do so as well.
Participate
If you are interested to participate in this challenge or want to know more, please fill this form, or you can also send us an email to this address [email protected] and/or [email protected]. Please include "Freedom in Feb" in your email subject line.
FAQ
Question: Which free license should I choose?
Answer: You can choose any free license. We suggest you to choose a license that allows remixing, and using for commercial purpose such as CC BY-SA 4.0. You may also choose a license CC BY-NC 2.0, but that’s not really free.
Question: I am a professional and depend on my works (photography, music, writing) on living. Do I need to release all my creations under the free licenses?
Answer: We understand this situation, but we request you to release as much as or some content under the free licenses or public domain.
More FAQs to be added
Keep in touch
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freedominfeb/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/freedominfeb
- Freenode IRC: freedominfeb
- Public forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/freedominfeb (anyone can post here by sending an email to: [email protected], but you need to join the group to view posts and other
- Hashtag: #freedominfeb
Author
Tito Dutta
Tito is a Programme Officer associated with the Access to Knowledge team at the CIS, and his work focuses on supporting Indic Wikimedia Communities and community members to plan and conduct Wiki-events.
