Hi SJ: I've been thinking about your note. Maybe "programmes" would be a better word than "policies". I hope here to put my note in a pro-active frame. In fact there are lots of things that we could do, but here is where it would be nice to know more about who "we" are!
You and I already discussed in person about how useful an education-l mailing list would be for in-depth discussions related to education oriented projects. "We" are to a certain extent involved with changing the way education works (for example). > [1] Among other things, even apparently-internal toolsets are > important to public access, as you say: chapters grow and come to need > all the things that the Foundation does. I might also mention that partnerships are likely to be significantly important here (and this is what inspired my initial mail). Suffice to say, my own view as that the right programme would be to make a constellation of completely free and open programs around Wikipedia that enable users to do interesting and useful things with the content. I think we could easily establish some objectives and milestones for the various projects that would fulfill this programme. We can then be fairly clear about what the gaps or obstacles are. I don't mean that everything should happen in a top-down or even centralized way. Rather, I would hope that this conversation would happen in the Wiki Way :). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
