On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Lydia Pintscher
lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de 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
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:32 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 March 2012 00:57, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, in my opinion I haven't given much indication of what I
personally think on
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chess Pie derby_...@yahoo.com 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,
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com 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
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Philippe Beaudette
phili...@wikimedia.org 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
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 21:38, Mateus Nobre mateus.no...@live.co.uk 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
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,
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org 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
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:26 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com 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
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com 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
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.org 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
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
brian.min...@colorado.edu 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
On 19 October 2010 19:45, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org 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
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 May 2010 21:50, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com 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
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
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
This too should get wider distribution!
Cheers,
Kat
-- Forwarded message --
From: David Monniaux david.monni...@free.fr
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
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Tim Starlingtstarl...@wikimedia.org 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
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Philippe
Beaudettepbeaude...@wikimedia.org 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
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@wikimedia.org 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
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
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