The Outernet archive is a collection of the greatest works of humanity, as decided by humanity. Outernet has limited bandwidth over which to broadcast content. Therefore, to select what gets broadcast as well as how frequently certain content gets updated, we turn to the best reflection of humanity's demand: you.
Broadly speaking, the Outernet archive is divided into three sections: the core archive, the queue, and the sponsored archive. The core archive is comprised of works that are permanent collections that Outernet will always broadcast and update. These works are deemed to be foundational to a common human interest. They include: the entirety of Wikipedia, the entirety of Project Gutenberg, open courseware, and other critical works in multiple languages.
All of Klap's questions are covered in detail on the organization's website as linked in the initial post. For example:klapauzius said:So lets keep it real simple:
Outernet requires a satellite (or a number of them) to work?
Last time I checked, these are not exactly cheap, so we are talking millions of dollars here?
On Indiegogo, they asked for a cool billion, if I am not mistaken.
Where does this money come from?
Form a group of wealthy donors or maybe a single benefactor?
Or will the satellite be collectively owned by "the people"?
Who will pay for the upkeep of the satellite network?
This costs money too.
Is this going to be a "publicly" owned company?
Lots of questions, but if you cannot answer any of them readily, then you probably know as much about outernet as I do.
http://blog.outernet.is/2014/12/what-outernet-broadcasts-and-why.html1. Outernet continuously broadcasts data from space. Most of what we broadcast is decided by you. The rest is either part of our Core Archive (critical content, like educational material or disaster updates) or Sponsored Content. In every case, we tell you how the content got there. If it's sponsored, we tell you who paid for it.
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