Re: [Foundation-l] New Business Partnership with Orange

2009-04-23 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/23 geni geni...@gmail.com: Will any of the orange products support wikipedia's video format and by what mechanism? (hypothesising here) I expect that would require a converter from Ogg Theora to 3GP and Ogg Vorbis to MP3 in the first instance. Gently pressuring phone manufacturers to

Re: [Foundation-l] New Business Partnership with Orange

2009-04-23 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
Will there be at least a rough guide to where this deal will result in the logo turning up legitimately? Yes. We have a list of portals/sites where they plan to profile the content and the logo. We went through the list but we will review the use every quarter and reassess as needed.

Re: [Foundation-l] New Business Partnership with Orange

2009-04-23 Thread Robert Rohde
Does the Board get involved in deciding whether to pursue new business oppurtunities like this, or is that something that is solely handled by the Foundation Staff? This question isn't intended as a criticism in any way, I'm just curious what the relationship is like surrounding big new projects

Re: [Foundation-l] New Business Partnership with Orange

2009-04-23 Thread Michael Snow
Robert Rohde wrote: Does the Board get involved in deciding whether to pursue new business oppurtunities like this, or is that something that is solely handled by the Foundation Staff? This question isn't intended as a criticism in any way, I'm just curious what the relationship is like

Re: [Foundation-l] New Business Partnership with Orange

2009-04-22 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
Hi All, I am spreading the news around (I just posted to the internal list) about a new announcement going out in a couple hours. For the past few months I have been working on a deal with Orange (France Telecom) on a new kind of multi-platform (web, mobile, IPTV) partnership for the

Re: [Foundation-l] New Business Partnership with Orange

2009-04-22 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/23 Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org: I am spreading the news around (I just posted to the internal list) about a new announcement going out in a couple hours. For the past few months I have been working on a deal with Orange (France Telecom) on a new kind of multi-platform

Re: [Foundation-l] New Business Partnership with Orange

2009-04-22 Thread geni
2009/4/23 Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org: Feel free to contact me or the list if you have any questions. --Kul Will there be at least a rough guide to where this deal will result in the logo turning up legitimately? Will any of the orange products support wikipedia's video format

Re: [Foundation-l] New Business Partnership with Orange

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Starling
Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote: Hi All, I am spreading the news around (I just posted to the internal list) about a new announcement going out in a couple hours. For the past few months I have been working on a deal with Orange (France Telecom) on a new kind of multi-platform (web, mobile,