Re: [Foundation-l] "wikipedia" Domain acquisition

2010-09-08 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Naoko, Thanks for clarifying. That indeed helps a bit more than just the original text. I guess a good summary would be "the domain is in safe community hands, and if the Foundation would like that to be different, they can ask so"? Best, Lodewijk 2010/9/8 Aphaia > I usually give no reply

Re: [Foundation-l] "wikipedia" Domain acquisition

2010-09-08 Thread Aphaia
Hi Lodewijk, 2010/9/8 Lodewijk : > Hi Naoko, > > Thanks for clarifying. That indeed helps a bit more than just the original > text. > I guess a good summary would be "the domain is in safe community hands, and > if the Foundation would like that to be different, they can ask so"? thank you for yo

[Foundation-l] WMF Board meetings, minutes and motions

2010-09-08 Thread Samuel J Klein
Hello, This is a quick update on recent and pending Board work. I intend to send these out on a regular basis, including the work of Board committees. == Summer meetings == In July, the Board held its summer meeting in GdaƄsk before Wikimania. We discussed internal Board committees, movement r

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Board meetings, minutes and motions

2010-09-08 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi, Thanks for this update, On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Samuel J Klein wrote: > > > At the same time, we also approved the formation of Wikimedia Eesti. > Welcome to the Estonian chapter! This chapter has the distinction of > having received approval without translating any of their core >

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Board meetings, minutes and motions

2010-09-08 Thread Samuel Klein
Great, thanks for the clarifications Bence :-) Also, I like the idea of using a history of sitenotices to get to know a project. That could be an automatable way to supplement "tell us about..." style updates. SJ On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Cyn Skyberg joins Wikimedia as CTCO!

2010-09-08 Thread Erik Moeller
FYI. This position was originally advertised as Chief Human Resources Officer at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Chief_Human_Resources_Officer The change in title reflects internal conversations which led us to refocus both the kinds of candidates we were looking at, and the nat

Re: [Foundation-l] MusOpen-WMF partnership?

2010-09-08 Thread Erik Moeller
2010/9/6 Federico Leva (Nemo) : > See EFF on the project: > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/musopen-wants-give-classical-music-public-domain > They say: "We have partnerships with the OLPC project and Wikipedia so > we'll likely add music to those as well." > http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-08 Thread Teofilo
2010/9/7, Teofilo : > 2010/9/7, Tim Starling : > >> Presumably this conspiracy would have to extend beyond the WMF to >> PediaPress and Purodha Blissenbach, the developers of Collection and >> mobile.wikipedia.org respectively. > > The absence of a history tab in the mobile format is in my view an