Re: [Foundation-l] A reminder about mission statements and vision statements.

2011-09-05 Thread Fred Bauder
> > However, I am beginning to think that Commons might have to change it's > scope since "educational media" has evolved to encompass what everyone > believes is every free image on earth. > > -Sarah Not a problem if the global community wishes to support such a mission. Frankly, I think all ou

Re: [Foundation-l] A reminder about mission statements and vision statements.

2011-09-04 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 05:04:43PM -0400, Sarah Stierch wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: > > > > > Why? Because our mission is to make things free (as in speech). > > You may have heard about that ;-) > > > > > Here is WMF's mission statement: > > "...under a free li

[Foundation-l] A reminder about mission statements and vision statements.

2011-09-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: > > Why? Because our mission is to make things free (as in speech). > You may have heard about that ;-) > Here is WMF's mission statement: "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and