Other successful Free Projects: Wikipedia

• Web-based encyclopedia
  • Transnational, multi-lingual endeavor
  • Based on Wiki technology
• Produces useful products
  Is well-known for this reason
• Grows fast
  • Attracts "normal" people
  • Attracts knowledgeable people
• Free in the sense of (Doubly) Free Software
  • Freedom is pre-condition and result of the process
  • Voluntary participation
  • Unlimited externally and internally
• Challenge: Quality assurance
  • Difference to Free Software: No "technical truth"
    Software runs or not
    An encyclopedia article always reflects an opinion
  • Actions are on their way
    Result of those actions is of general interest

Wikipedia is a very interesting Free Project