Free Me Too
Free Me Too is the second edition of Free Me, a Live DVD with open licensed content including videos, pictures and books in combination with free and open source software in Fedora. It is intended to promote the concepts of Free culture, Free software and the shared spirits and principles behind these efforts. It is based on the work done by JonathanRoberts in http://freeme.questionsplease.org/. We intend to bundle the following content:
- Fedora Live DVD
Licensing
All content licenses should allow free redistribution, mixing and sharing with preferably no commercial use restrictions
Formats
All content should be under open formats - Ogg formats are preferred. If you suggest any links, please try to provide links to content under open formats. If this is not possible, we will convert into open formats for inclusion.
Software
Note: No need to add software that is already part of the desktop live cd.
- openclipart package
- blender
- gimp
- inkscape
- kino
Videos
- http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=1515621261310049805&q=richard+stallman - Richard Stallman on Free software
- http://creativecommons.org/about/ccvideos/ - First three
- http://youtube.com/watch?v=TYbDfo4q5pw - "How software patents actually work"
- http://www.redhat.com/videos/ - Truth Happens, Bird Song etc
- http://www.redhat.com/magazine/026dec06/features/ks_india/ - India Knowledge Symposium
- http://www.redhat.com/magazine/006apr05/features/licenses/ - Open source software licenses explained
- http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/ip/ "IP" explained.
- http://www.lafkon.net/tc - Trusted Computing
- http://orange.blender.org/ - Elephants Dream + Making of
- http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6122403781064290619&q=who+owns+culture - Who Owns Culture
Books
- http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page - Public Domain Books
- http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnotabug.com%2F2002%2Frms-essays.pdf&ei=LEzwRYifJ42-0wS_8aGSBA&usg=__1t5B9wSJMAhxDzwPRbm5sFzejwU=&sig2=ek3GmNgQr7fb9TmLdadJDg - Free Software Free Culture
- http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fec.europa.eu%2Fenterprise%2Fict%2Fpolicy%2Fdoc%2F2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf&ei=u0zwRZv5AoqM0wSO7tSLBA&usg=__eC4r8mgQtrIqCgjATEo8Z3aqND0=&sig2=dRKh6jkkS9ha3aV0pKEjxQ European Report Into The Economic Impact Of Free/Open Source Software
Music?
Browser Bookmarks
Free Culture
- A Swarm Of Angels
- Amie Street
- Barcelona Visió
- Creative Commons
- Defective By Design
- Eben Moglen
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Fading Ways Music
- Free Culture (Student Movement)
- Free Software Foundation
- Freedom Defined
- GNU Philosophy
- Ibiblio
- Lawrence Lessig
- MIT Open Courseware
- Open Rights Group
- Open Source Cinema
- Openstudio
- The Internet Archive
- Wikipedia
Music
- Jamendo
- ccMixter
- Magnatune
- SectionZ
- Freesound
- Diesel-U-Music
- Fading Ways
- Amie Street
- opsound
- Dogmazic
- Jamglue
Video
- Prelinger Archive
- Open Source Films
- CandyJar
Photos
- Open Clipart
- Flickr Creative Commons Pool
- Yotophoto
- Openphoto
- Morguefile
Books
- Creative Commons Books
- Project Gutenberg Public Domain Books
- Internet Archive Book Collection
- Wikmedia (includes Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiquote and Wikisource!)
- LibriVox - Audio Books
Software
- Distrowatch
- Free Software Directory
- The OpenCD
Education
- Open Educational Resources
- MIT Open Course Ware
References
Comments
Feel free to add your suggestions for any type of open content with good reasons on why it should be included. Direct links in open codec formats would be preferred.
- Maybe some of the books from Lawrence Lessig could be included since they are released under a Creative Commons license. http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf - BrianPepple
- http://peach.blender.org/ - Big Buck Bunny - the successor of Elephants Dream Not out yet but might make it intime for inclusion :)
- Music:
- http://www.fwshare.co.uk/ - a nice selection of music -- Seems Inaccessible - RahulSundaram
- Hmm, I might have copies at home that I can upload somewhere - but I'm not home for another 3 weeks :(
- http://creativecommons.org/wired/ - also very cool
- A lot of the original inspiration and content came from http://www.ipaction.org/campaigns/ipod/content.html - definitely worth checking out!
- For browser bookmarks see the blogroll on freeme.questionsplease.org - some good ones there :)
- Rahul, I said I'd find the pdf of disc art for free me, so i've attached it here: