[Foundation-l] Board Minutes, August 24-25

2009-10-28 Thread Kat Walsh
Minutes from the August 2009 (Wikimania) board meeting -- approved October 2009. (We are still experimenting with the style, and the next set of minutes will likely be a bit less of a direct transcription and more of a summary; please feel free to comment on what would be useful.) Link to wiki ve

[Foundation-l] Free culture forum- Starting Oct 29: Join online!!!!

2009-10-28 Thread Mayo FM
ENGLISH - CATALĂ€ - CASTELLANO First International Forum on free culture and knowledge accessibility (Barcelona October 29 to November 1 2009): Join online!! ENGLISH http://www.fcforum.net The International F

Re: [Foundation-l] RFC: A Wikipedia/etc.-like Web Directory (e.g: dmoz.org, the old dir.yahoo.com , etc)

2009-10-28 Thread David Goodman
We can do it right. We can do it free of advertising. We can do it verified. We can do it multi-national. We can do it in a single large open community. We can do it without the uncertainty of city wikis, with their small contributor base. We can use it not just for additional material, but to rel