On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Lydia Pintscher
wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I'm Lydia and just
> started working for Wikimedia Germany. Some of you might know me from
> my work in Free Software projects.
Congratulations--to you and to Wikimedia German
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:32 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>> On 6 March 2012 00:57, phoebe ayers wrote:
>>
>>> Well, in my opinion I haven't given much indication of what I
>>> personally think on the issue at all, as I often explicitly ignored
>>>
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chess Pie wrote:
>> Looks like a braindead law.
>> Does the foundation have a specific position on OpenAccess?
>
> The WMF as an entity doesn't have a specific position/policy, though
> in general we are squarel
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, WereSpielChequers
wrote:
> Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it
> omits. So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not going to
> discuss blackouts, SOPA and lobbying?
I am assuming Legal will bring it up in the conte
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Philippe Beaudette
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm thrilled to announce that Maggie Dennis, our community liaison, has
> agreed to transition to a permanent role with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Congratulations, Maggie--you have been doing great work and I'm glad
that you'
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 21:38, Mateus Nobre wrote:
>> I totally agree to fight against censorships in Internet and in real life, I
>> agree with that. And I fight against that. We can, as people and citizens;
>> But Wikimedia Foundation ca
Creative Commons is beginning the process of revising their suite of
licenses, with the goal of having a 4.0 version by the end of 2012:
https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30676
They have a set of goals, including better internationalization,
better interoperability with other licenses, and
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:26 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> Is this the first time that WMF has actively taken a stance on
> politics and legislation?
No. Well, in this case, really, Wikimedia hasn't acted except to
observe, though several individuals have stated opinions.
But Wikimedia has acted
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
> The Wikimedia Foundation first heard about this a few hours ago: we don't
> have a lot of details yet. Jay is gathering information and working on a
> statement now.
>
> It seems obvious though that the proposed law would hurt freedom of
> expre
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Dan Rosenthal wrote:
>
> On Jun 23, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
>
>> To be frank, I also disagree that changing the timing would have
>> improved things in any practical sense. It doesn't really obscure the
>> connection much, if that's even what we would
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Geoff Brigham wrote:
> Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus
> ("friends of the court") brief in Golan v. Holder, a case of great
> importance before the Supreme Court that will affect our understanding of
> the public domain for years
Thank you all for your congratulations and your support!
(And congratulations to the rest of the candidates, whose leadership
and dedication are obvious in chapters, committees, and other
projects; I look forward to continuing to work with you.)
Cheers,
Kat
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Brian J Mingus
wrote:
> I haven't seen the numbers lately but in the past it was true that the
> majority of Wikipedia's traffic came from Google. If that is still true it
> seems likely that Google's demographics mirror what we are seeing here. The
> implication i
> On 19 October 2010 19:45, Sue Gardner wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I want to let you know that as of this Friday, October 22, 2010, Mike
>> Godwin will be leaving his role as General Counsel for the Wikimedia
>> Foundation.
I'd like to thank Mike for everything. Since the nature of the job
means
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 12 May 2010 21:50, David Goodman wrote:
>
>> Even more than what Ray says:
>
>
> +1 to this entire email.
Ditto.
Another principle to state related to this (that I've been trying to
think about how to expand upon): no resource that is
c
First of all, this is entirely my own opinion, not that of the board,
and anyone who quotes it as a statement of the WMF will get promptly
crushed by a giant puzzle globe.
I absolutely sign on to the board statement[1]. Commons should not be
a host for media that has very little informational or e
on August 24 at 15:10. Those in attendance and constituting a
quorum were:
Present
* Michael Snow- Chair of the Board of Trustees
* Jan-Bart de Vreede- Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees
* Kat Walsh- Executive Secretary of the Board of Trustees
* Stu West- Treasurer of the Board of
This too should get wider distribution!
Cheers,
Kat
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From: David Monniaux
Date: Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures
with the French cultural authorities
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Philippe
Beaudette wrote:
> The Wikimedia Foundation's Board Election Committee has concluded the
> board selection process, and is pleased to announce that the
> candidates ranked as follows:
Wikimedia is an amazing thing to be part of and I'm honored to be
chosen
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> I tried to get a feeling for what sort of hard drive capacity we would
> need if the institutions in the room decided they wanted to share large
> amounts of content with us. Many of them have tens or hundreds of
> terabytes of data storage, i
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Now, if we really think of a _totally badass title_ before we get the
> business cards printed up I'm open to changing it, but honestly I like
> it and it fits the role I see for myself just fine. :)
Or you could have two sets of business card
The Executive Director for Digital Policy of the J. Paul Getty Trust
has written an article on digitally-reproducible works of public
domain art, and museums' mission, arguing why and how museums should
properly make these works as unrestrictedly available as possible --
thought people here would f
Another step towards an open web -- Google's Chrome browser is going
to support Theora video natively with the HTML5 video tag:
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/05/google-chrome-3-adds-html5.html
http://codereview.chromium.org/115625/diff/1/2
(Mozilla has already committed to this--and fu
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