Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new projects

2010-10-24 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > A mixture, I guess. The idea of a regularly scheduled process to launch > new projects seems reasonable, and an annual cycle sounds good to me. A > firm commitment to launch one (and only one) beta project per year does > not. If there are mu

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new projects

2010-10-24 Thread Michael Snow
On 10/24/2010 4:30 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Michael Snow wrote: >> On 10/24/2010 4:12 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Pharos >>> wrote: Perhaps an alternative strategy could be to hold a grand round-robin vote to l

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new projects

2010-10-24 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > On 10/24/2010 4:12 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Pharos  wrote: >>> Perhaps an alternative strategy could be to hold a grand round-robin >>> vote to launch one new project per year, at least in beta phase. >>>

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new projects

2010-10-24 Thread Michael Snow
On 10/24/2010 4:12 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Pharos wrote: >> Perhaps an alternative strategy could be to hold a grand round-robin >> vote to launch one new project per year, at least in beta phase. >> >> This might ensure that the very best ideas get through an

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new projects

2010-10-24 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Pharos wrote: > Perhaps an alternative strategy could be to hold a grand round-robin > vote to launch one new project per year, at least in beta phase. > > This might ensure that the very best ideas get through and are > actualized, without quite opening the floodg

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new projects

2010-10-24 Thread Pharos
Perhaps an alternative strategy could be to hold a grand round-robin vote to launch one new project per year, at least in beta phase. This might ensure that the very best ideas get through and are actualized, without quite opening the floodgates. Thanks, Pharos On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:47 AM,

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new projects

2010-10-23 Thread Robert S. Horning
On 10/23/2010 05:13 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Hello, > > WikiHow is a good place for how-tos, and has an amazing community. > They unfortunately use a license (NC-SA) that isn't compatible with > Wikimedia projects. If you want to do something like WikiHow under a > CC-SA license, you might pursue

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new projects

2010-10-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 October 2010 12:13, Samuel Klein wrote: > WikiHow is a good place for how-tos, and has an amazing community. > They unfortunately use a license (NC-SA) that isn't compatible with > Wikimedia projects.  If you want to do something like WikiHow under a > CC-SA license, you might pursue a new

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new projects

2010-10-23 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello, WikiHow is a good place for how-tos, and has an amazing community. They unfortunately use a license (NC-SA) that isn't compatible with Wikimedia projects. If you want to do something like WikiHow under a CC-SA license, you might pursue a new Project for them -- while incubating the project