[Foundation-l] Call - Building Digital Commons 29 30 October 2011 (Barcelona online)

2011-10-08 Thread Mayo FM
Hello! Hola! Hoping this is of interest of wikipedians/wikimedians on this e-list :-)! Looking forward many of you will join online or/and offline. Thanks to the Wikimedia Foundation, we have an small amount for travel scholarships for wikipedians/wikimedians. If you need to apply please get in

Re: [Foundation-l] Dario Taraborelli joins Wikimedia Foundation

2011-03-31 Thread Mayo FM
Welcome Dario! Impressive CV. Congrats WMF, Mayo 2011/3/31 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Dear all, it is my pleasure to announce that Dario Taraborelli (User:DarTar) is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Senior Research Analyst, Strategy, reporting to me. As of this week, Dario is based

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011-03-10 Thread Mayo FM
Hi! I agree with Melissa in promoting the use of open access journals. Plus, there is also the possibility to create solidarity for access between academics. In the sense that, if my University does not have access to a paper I need to complete an article, but another academic in Boston does, to

Re: [Foundation-l] FCForum Declaration: Sustainable Models for Creativity

2011-03-04 Thread Mayo FM
Hello! Hola! Thanks Milos and SJ for openning the question in this e-list. Here below I send a short e-mail (in English, Spanish and catalan version) which inform about the Free culture forum (Fcforum) and the release of the Declaration and how-to manual on new models of sustainability of

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Mike Godwin leaves the Wikimedia Foundation

2010-10-21 Thread Mayo FM
The best of luck and wishes for Mike, and a big thanks, Mayo 2010/10/20 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Kat Walsh k...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 19 October 2010 19:45, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, I want to let you know that as of this

[Foundation-l] Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge

2009-11-14 Thread Mayo FM
Hello! Hola! Ciao! Last week took place at Barcelona the First International Forum on free culture and access to knowledge (Oct 29 to Nov 1) with great success. A large coalition of organizations, creatives, hackers, researchers... from over 20 countries was created and launched a common Charter

[Foundation-l] Free culture forum- Starting Oct 29: Join online!!!!

2009-10-28 Thread Mayo FM
ENGLISH - CATALĂ€ - CASTELLANO First International Forum on free culture and knowledge accessibility (Barcelona October 29 to November 1 2009): Join online!! ENGLISH http://www.fcforum.nethttp://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fcforum.net The International