Former German minister of education and MP

The Skillshare Project Lüneburg will offer Wikipedia authors a platform for exchange, but most importantly an option to professionalize their work and to improve articles the online encyclopedia is supplying. Experienced Wikipedia authors will share their knowledge with newcomers and offer tips and tricks on how to more successfully work with the web site. To help each other by sharing knowledge with each other is a fundamental social-democratic ideal. In my past work as a Minister of Education and Research I tried to promote the open content movement on a broad scale of projects, since I see work that creates and supplies free knowledge as an immense potential, a modern society has to develop. I support the Skillshare project in Lüneburg, because it is designed to bring a web community into contact with the community of a city. The projects will not only aim at working together but at seeing others profiting from this work.