What's the URL for Robert's service? I would love to try it out. If the service isn't mature yet, is there a code repository somewhere?
Ryan Kaldari On 11/13/10 10:00 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 13 November 2010 17:53, Magnus Manske<magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> I'm all for that. But, did anyone actually ask the Foundation to have >> his button included there (besides spammers et al.)? It's not like an >> email is hard to write... >> > > Robert Horning has noted in this very thread: > > === > Based upon my own experience, I tried to get into the printed Wikimedia > game at about the same time as PediaPress first started to get involved, > but was openly dismissed and in fact my efforts thwarted. I admit that > the group I was working with at the time wasn't quite thinking of the > direction that PediaPress went with their tool chain and there were some > differences, but in the end it does explain some of the reception we got > from the WMF board in terms of support for our little project (made up > of mainly volunteers from Wikibooks at the time). > > There have been other groups who have tried to get into the role of > printing materials from Wikimedia projects besides PediaPress, and I > think it is disingenuous to suggest that the relationship is > non-exclusive. At the very least, the process for getting accepted as > "an approved partner" has been very murky at best and seems more like > political back scratching. > === > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-November/062385.html > > I leave the question of disingenuity to the reader. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
