Re: [Foundation-l] March Board of Trustees meeting agenda

2012-03-26 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi Thomas, Yes, of course talking about what we actually do with the money is important :) We spent a fair amount of time at the February meeting talking about exactly this with the "annual planning" item, and also will have at least one, and probably more, online meetings dedicated to annual plan

[Foundation-l] New Models of Affiliation draft parameters

2012-03-26 Thread Bishakha Datta
Dear all, Many thanks for bringing the discussion on New Models of Affiliations this far. Building on earlier Movement Roles discussions from last year and on the New Models working group's discussions earlier this month [1], here are a set of draft principles and parameters for the four categori

[Foundation-l] first Wikidata office hour on IRC

2012-03-26 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hi everyone! Next week the Wikidata team will be complete and start working at full speed. Finally! \o/ I will be holding the first round of Wikidata office hours next week. You're all invited to ask questions and discuss. If you can't attend there will be logs. * 4. April, German, in #wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] A university partner for Wikimania

2012-03-26 Thread wheredevelsdare
WikiConference India 2011 was hosted at the University of Mumbai (paid venue rather than partners) > From: lodew...@effeietsanders.org > Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:41:01 +0200 > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A university partner for Wikimania > > And if memor

Re: [Foundation-l] A university partner for Wikimania

2012-03-26 Thread Lodewijk
And if memory serves me well 2007 was co-hosted by the Academica Sinica and 2008 by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (which probably can be categorized as academic albeit not university). Kind regards, Lodewijk No dia 26 de Março de 2012 11:04, Ray Saintonge escreveu: > On 03/25/12 12:34 PM, James He

Re: [Foundation-l] A university partner for Wikimania

2012-03-26 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 03/25/12 12:34 PM, James Heilman wrote: Some academics need conferences to be sponsored by / associated with an academic institution to receive time off and funding to attend conferences. Is this something that Wikimania has ever attempted? Ie. having Wikimania hosted by the local chapter plus