Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

Amen! On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:49 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > As a pillar of the free culture community, it might also be useful > for us to > welcome such interest rather than frustrating it, ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

Great analysis SJ. By the way - since we're talking about working with other organisations outside of Wikimedia Projects, there is another Strategic Planning taskforce that people might be interested in weighing in on. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alliances_and_Partnerships_Task_Force The "ex

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

Thanks for this repost, Laura. I don't know where 18 months comes from, but it is much much too long :-) It might be more accurate to say that our project proposal process is broken, and we simply need to fix it. The Meta process for requesting a new project is what I have in mind. As philip

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Laura Hale wrote: >> This is a follow up to my proposal that Fan History Wiki join the wMF >> family, based on my experiences via e-mail, on the list and on strategy >> wiki. > > > >> As some one who has pr

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

Anthony wrote: > > > > Also, please address my point that banning self-identified > > > > pedophiles from editing merely entourages pedophile editors to > > > > *not* identify themselves as such (thereby increasing the > > > > likelihood that problematic activities will be overlooked). > > > If t

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

George Herbert wrote: >> The "hand in hand with children" wording seems to conflate physical >> space with cyberspace.  Please see my relevant reply to George William >> Herbert. > There's a known and ancedotally (but not known to be statistically) > significant trend of pedophiles attracting vi

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, December 3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! Next Thursday's office hours will feature Jay Walsh, the Foundation's Head of Communications. If you don't know Jay you can learn all about him at . Office hours on Thursday are from 1700

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

>> > Also, please address my point that banning self-identified pedophiles >> > from editing merely entourages pedophile editors to *not* identify >> > themselves as such (thereby increasing the likelihood that problematic >> > activities will be overlooked). > >> If that were true, then we wouldn'

Re: [Foundation-l] Board meeting update

Hi Michael, thanks a lot for sharing this short overview with us. I look forward to more extensive minutes of course and hope they will be published not too long from now - especially considering the strategic process that is going on. You mentioned the nominating committee and their imput. I'm g