[Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office hours

2010-01-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi everyone, The next strategic planning office hours are: Tuesday from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: Tuesday, 12-1pm PST Tuesday, 3pm-4pm EST The Task forces have come to recommendations, and the Board briefing docs are posted on the wiki. Come and join us to discuss! Office hours will be a gr

Re: [Foundation-l] Give a man a fish and make it illegal to teach fishing

2010-01-25 Thread Mike.lifeguard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, David Gerard wrote: > http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/5104 > > Michael Geist on how excessive copyright and ACTA-like treaties will > directly affect the process of sharing and education, i.e. what we do. > > - d. Actuall

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2010-01-25 Thread Jay Walsh
Translation would be a dream, of course. And in every thing we do we try to establish a means for creating a translated version. For a complex design document like this, translation is never going to be easy. The Outreach team's bookshelf project is exploring this challenge in detail, and in t

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2010-01-25 Thread Jay Walsh
Thanks Liam - It's really easy to produce a page by page document, so I'll see if we can have that lined up as a second option on the page. I hear you about the chapters/events sections. I think the intent of the report will be to showcase work undertaken within the movement, whether at the ha

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2010-01-25 Thread Bod Notbod
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Nathan wrote: > Kind of a > picayune criticism anyway, that could have been communicated directly > rather than on-list. It was less than a picayune criticism; it wasn't a criticism at all. I expressed my great satisfaction with the document, as have others. I

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2010-01-25 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2010/1/25 Veronique Kessler : >> Hello, >> >> Thanks for the comment. The "mm" signifies millions which is the >> amount the timeline is representing, $6 million from 125,000 >> donors globally. If we were to replace it with one

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2010-01-25 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Bod Notbod wrote: > > I'm not sure whether to take you seriously given the reference at that > link but anyway... Since Veronique is the WMF employee responsible for the accuracy of the number, you probably should. I've seen mm used for millions in dollars used b

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2010-01-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
2010/1/25 Veronique Kessler : > Hello, > > Thanks for the comment.  The "mm" signifies millions which is the amount > the timeline is representing, $6 million from 125,000 donors globally. > If we were to replace it with one "m", that would signify only $6 thousand. > > See also: http://wiki.answer

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2010-01-25 Thread Bod Notbod
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Veronique Kessler wrote: > Thanks for the comment.  The "mm" signifies millions which is the amount > the timeline is representing, $6 million from 125,000 donors globally. > If we were to replace it with one "m", that would signify only $6 thousand. > > See also:

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2010-01-25 Thread Veronique Kessler
Hello, Thanks for the comment. The "mm" signifies millions which is the amount the timeline is representing, $6 million from 125,000 donors globally. If we were to replace it with one "m", that would signify only $6 thousand. See also: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_abbreviation_of_million

Re: [Foundation-l] sell wikipedia

2010-01-25 Thread Liam Wyatt
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:09 AM, William Pietri wrote: > On 01/23/2010 02:59 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > > William Pietri wrote: > >> I note that just last night I was browsing EBay to see what a set of the > >> 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica goes for. For $10, I could get it on DVD. > >> Or

Re: [Foundation-l] sell wikipedia

2010-01-25 Thread William Pietri
On 01/23/2010 02:59 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > William Pietri wrote: >> I note that just last night I was browsing EBay to see what a set of the >> 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica goes for. For $10, I could get it on DVD. >> Or I could pay hundreds for a physical set. I would never buy the DVD