Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the Unicode Consortium: http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblist.html#liais Rick McGowan is the Unicode representative to Wikimedia, and I'll be serving as Wikimedia's respresentative to Unicode until our new localization

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the Unicode Consortium: http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblist.html#liais \o/ Thanks, Ryan. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Houle
On 7/19/2011 2:41 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the Unicode Consortium: http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblist.html#liais Rick McGowan is the Unicode representative to Wikimedia, and I'll be serving as Wikimedia's respresentative

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Platonides
Congratulations! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Alolita Sharma
Ryan, Great news! Alolita On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-28 Thread Ryan Kaldari
BTW, I found out that liaison membership in the Unicode Consortium is free (and doesn't require us to do anything specifically). You just have to convince them that the membership would be beneficial to both organizations. Since it sounds like no one objects, I'd be happy to go ahead and write

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-28 Thread Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson
] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 5:00 PM To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium? BTW, I found out that liaison membership in the Unicode Consortium is free (and doesn't require us to do anything specifically). You just have to convince them

[Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-27 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I'm not sure who would be in charge of this, but I think it would be useful if the WMF was a liaison member of the Unicode Constortium: http://unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html This body makes all sorts of important decisions about the Unicode standard—decisions that affects many aspects of

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-27 Thread Platonides
Ryan Kaldari wrote: I'm not sure who would be in charge of this, but I think it would be useful if the WMF was a liaison member of the Unicode Constortium: http://unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html This body makes all sorts of important decisions about the Unicode standard—decisions that

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-27 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I'm not sure who would be in charge of this, but I think it would be useful if the WMF was a liaison member of the Unicode Constortium: http://unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html This body makes all sorts of

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-27 Thread jidanni
AG == Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com writes: AG It looks like it would cost $7,900 a year in dues I think that would set a bad precedent for the way you fellows spend your money. Next thing you know people will say you joined A, now why don't you join B, even more worthy, etc. P.S.,