[Foundation-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

2009-07-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Ladies and Gentlemen, As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month. Because of the potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Philippe Beaudette as the Strategy Project Facilitator

2009-07-19 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Please allow me to me too! what Sue said. As she said, she and I have talked about this. I really AM sensitive to it, and fully disclosed the situation to the election committee when my hire was announced. I'm happy to work with anyone who wants to in identifying conflicts and finding ways

Re: [Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

2009-07-19 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/18 John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no: Imagine this, if a gallery or museum has a painting of some Leonard van der Olsen-Mozart (he don't exist, hopefully..) then this museum should make sure there is a bio for the person and of his painting of The fallen Madonna with the big bottom, and

[Foundation-l] RE; Announcing Philippe Beaudette as the Strategy Project Facilitator

2009-07-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Thanks, Jaroslav - I'm really glad (truly) that there are people like you who think through those issues of values. I want to reinforce that my offer to resign was the very first email that I sent after accepting the job. I think enough of the folks with the Really Big Brains got together

Re: [Foundation-l] RE; Announcing Philippe Beaudette as the Strategy Project Facilitator

2009-07-19 Thread geni
2009/7/19 Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org: Thanks, Jaroslav - I'm really glad (truly) that there are people like you who think through those issues of values. I want to reinforce that my offer to resign was the very first email that I sent after accepting the job. I think enough

Re: [Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

2009-07-19 Thread Happy-melon
IANAL, but I don't think I need to be to say the The Foundation is not in legal jeopardy here unless it chooses to be. It's protected by a four-thousand-mile moat, a war of independence, several layers of legal code and a US Supreme Court decision. It doesn't have any assets in the UK as far

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices andsystems

2009-07-19 Thread Happy-melon
We need to think a little bit outside the box, here; this domain should really be available, and make sense to use, for *all* WMF sites. http://www.wm.org is only occupied by a websquatter at the moment, AFAICT; I think a schema like http://wm.org/wiki_code/article_title or

[Foundation-l] new list summaries

2009-07-19 Thread phoebe ayers
Dear all, New list summaries for the past month: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_June_15-30 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_July_1-15 I swear I'll try to get back on a bi-weekly schedule. Note: If anyone wants to try their hand at

[Foundation-l] EN Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 30 Number: 112

2009-07-19 Thread EN Wikizine
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Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices andsystems

2009-07-19 Thread Brian
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.dewrote: Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com wrote: We need to think a little bit outside the box, here; this domain should really be available, and make sense to use, for *all* WMF sites. http://www.wm.org is only

Re: [Foundation-l] new list summaries

2009-07-19 Thread Samuel Klein
These are fabulous - thank you! I absolutely agree that smaller (but interesting) lists would attract more people if they saw what sorts of discussions happen there.[the technical dump-processing list is one example...] Sj On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:00 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for volunteers: 2009-2010 Audit Committee

2009-07-19 Thread Stuart West
Just a quick follow-up note to thank everyone who expressed interest in serving on the Foundation's Audit Committee. I'm pleased to announced the following membership of the 2009-2010 Audit Committee, which represents a mix of four community members with financial backgrounds and two San