Our next episode will be an interview with Jimmy Wales and Gil Penchina of Wikia. Wikia is working on a Free and Open Source search engine service, with Open Data. Dubbed Wikia Search, it seems to be the closest thing that we have today to a Free Network Service for search. We’ll be asking Jimmy and Gil about their plans for Wikia Search, the underlying technology, the licensing for software and data, and the involvement of the great Internet community in their project. I’m also interested in their take on Free Network Service businesses, since Wikia is one right now.

The episode after that, we’ll have on Brion Vibber, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, to talk about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia is probably the most popular Free Network Service on the Web, and we’ll talk about Brion’s dedication to using 100% Free Software for this massive Web site.

Future episodes? I’d love to talk to folks from Automattic about WordPress.com and their other services. Maybe a round table on the Affero GPL? Distributed programming models? Libre Services?

If you have any questions for our upcoming guests, or you can think of other subjects or topics we should cover in future podcast episodes, drop us a comment here and let us know. We’re interested in exploring the space around Free Network Services and I think we’ve got some interesting discussion ahead of us.