Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation
2009/9/13 Henning Schlottmann h.schlottm...@gmx.net: This whole issue is one of information processing. Everyone has to learn how to deal with information in large amounts and on different media. But there have been a few generations of experience we can plug in, there are best practices and web boards are not among them. It's not just information processing. Everywhere conversations take place, that place has a tone. My feeling is, having robust, challenging conversations is important. But does that require the present tone of f-l? From what I've seen on other mailing lists -- Not at all. So why tolerate it, when it causes people to disengage, and discourages them from engaging at all? Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] RegioWikiCamp - September 25-27, Germany
Hi, I just heard about an unconference event called RegioWikiCamp. I imagine it will be of interest to lots of folks living near Germany (if you are not all conferenced out after Wikimania!). http://wiki.regiowiki.eu/RegioWikiCamp_2009 It will be from September 25th to 27th. The event is located in Furtwangen the middle of the beautiful Black Forest in Germany. It is organised by the European Regiowiki Society, location host is the faculty of Digital Media of the Furtwangen University of Applied Science. I see that some of the attendees include WMDE, Wikia and Semantic MediaWiki, so it must not be a completely unknown event, although I didn't find it mentioned on these lists yet. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] moderate this list
2009/8/29 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: If you'd like to start a moderated foundation-l, in addition to the regular foundation-l, that might be useful. But it's considerably inappropriate for you to sign up for a mailing list that many of us have been enjoying for years and in one month decide you want to alter it to suit your tastes. Enjoying? Maybe more accurate for many of us is barely tolerating. I am with Anders. It is not just a matter of learning to use an email client properly. Considered posts are soon piled under dozens of back-and-forth-over-minor-details responses. But it doesn't seem the culture of foundation-l at this point would allow moderation to make it a more proportionate place. Which is a shame as in theory it is our main Wikimedia-wide channel of communication, and must be terribly off-putting for newcomers. Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report
Thanks for your report Tim. A minor correction, 2009/8/12 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Liam has a point when he suggests that we typically do not need the highest resolutions to illustrate our Wikipedias http://wikipedia.org/. But I really like the idea of Brianna where we hotlink and cache pictures from the GLAMs themselves. I can appreciate why Tim did not get into that... It is a lot of work, complicated work as well. Questions like what to do when the GLAM is off line are only part of it. This was not my idea! It was suggested by GLAM people (a couple of times) and like a good facilitator I made sure it was recorded. The aim was to brainstorm, not debate the merits of every suggestion at the time it was suggested. The suggestion was also made that Wikimedia should revisit its restriction on NC material, and it was written down too, although I think I was thinking the same thing as every other Wikimedian in the room... Re GLAM repositories as a MediaWiki repo, I don't know enough on the tech side to know if it is even a remotely feasible idea. But on the 'social' side it did make me think about our insistence (currently technically necessary) that everything is in MediaWiki format, essentially under the Wikimedia branding somewhere, before we will effectively work with it. We want the GLAMs to let up some control, but essentially so material can come under our control. A different kind of control, certainly, but definitely control. Let's not kid ourselves - not a neutral ground. Maybe it is not a bad idea for us to think about how we can embrace collaboration or resource sharing that might wear someone else's badging. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] UNESCO Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace
Hi, I just found out from the Open Source Business Report (http://www.osbr.ca/) that UNESCO has published a report called Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace. It's licensed CC-BY-NC-SA and available for download: http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Open_Educational_Resources:_Conversations_in_Cyberspace I haven't downloaded/read much of it yet, but if anyone does and they find some interesting tidbit, please report it back :) cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Any Wikimedians going to the Free Culture Forum?
Hi, Are there any Wikimedians who know anything about this? http://fcforum.net/ Barcelona, October 29 - November 1 2009. It might be something for some of the European chapters in particular to be involved with. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] linux.conf.au Call for Papers are now open
Hi everyone: The linux.conf.au deadline is now on the 31 July at 0500 UTC (1700 New Zealand time). Other times around the world can be found at http://tinyurl.com/lca10cfp --- Announcement from http://www.lca2010.org.nz/media/news/65 WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Friday 24 July 2009 – The LCA2010 Organising Committee have been overwhelmed by the numbers and quality of the papers submitted to linux.conf.au so far! The success of the papers so far has put us in a generous mood. So we've decided to give all you slackers out there an extension on the Call for Papers by one week! Call for Papers Now Closing: Friday 31 July 2009 at 17:00 NZST Remember, to increase your chances of acceptance, check out the Papers Info[1] page on our website before submitting your paper. [1] http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/papers_info ___ Lca10-papers mailing list lca10-pap...@lists.penguinsvisiting.org.nz http://lists.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/lca10-papers_lists.penguinsvisiting.org.nz 2009/7/19 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com: Hi all, I would not normally forward an open source conference CFP to this list, but I think this case has particular merit. The linux.conf.au 2010 Call for Papers closes this Friday. LCA is a free software technical conference, but one of the topics they are targeting this year is Free Software and Free Culture topics, including licencing and Free and Open approaches outside software. Also, the first announced keynote speaker is Benjamin Mako Hill, who is on the WMF's advisory board. It's a really enjoyable full-on technical community conference, so if a trip to the southern hemisphere in January sounds OK by you please think about submitting a proposal. (see Information for speakers http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/papers_info to find out about benefits for speakers) It's on during January 18-23 2010 in Wellington, NZ. I am going to try and organise a meet-up the weekend before the conference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington cheers, Brianna -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Davies mich...@the-davies.net Date: 2009/6/29 Subject: [lca10-papers] linux.conf.au Call for Papers are now open! To: linux SA list linu...@linuxsa.org.au -- Forwarded message -- From: linux.conf.au Announcements lca-annou...@lists.linux.org.au Date: 2009/6/29 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au Call for Papers are now open! To: lca-annou...@lists.linux.org.au === linux.conf.au Call For Papers === linux.conf.au ( http://www.lca2010.org.nz ) is pleased to announce the opening of its Call for Papers for the coming linux.conf.au, LCA2010! LCA2010 will be held from Monday 18 January 2010 to Saturday 23 January 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand. linux.conf.au isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical conference about Free and Open Source Software, held annually in Australasia since 2001 - covering everything from the Linux Kernel and the BSDs to OpenOffice.org, from networking to audio-visual magic, from hardware hacks to Creative Commons. === Important Dates === Call for Papers opens: Monday 29 June 2009 Call for Papers closes: Friday 24 July 2009 Email Notifications from Papers Committee: Early September 2009 Registrations open: Mid September 2009 Conference Dates: Monday 18 January to Saturday 23 January 2001 === Information on Papers === The LCA2010 Papers Committee is looking for a broad range of papers spanning everything from programming and software to desktop and userspace to community, government and education but there is one essential: The core of your paper must relate to open source in some way, i.e., if it's a paper about software then the software has to be licensed under an Open Source license. The LCA2010 Papers Committee welcome proposals for Papers on the following topics: * Kernel and system topics such as filesystems and embedded devices * Networking topics such as peer to peer networking, or tuning a TCP/IP stack * Desktop topics such as office and productivity applications, mobile devices, peripherals, crypto security and viruses and other malware * Server topics such as clusters and other supercomputers, databases and grid computing * Systems administration topics such as maintaining large numbers of machines and disaster recovery * Programming topics such as software engineering practices and test driven development * Free Software and Free Culture topics, including licencing and Free and Open approaches outside software * Free Software usage topics, including home, IT, education, manufacturing, research and government usage. Most presentations and tutorials will be technical in nature, but proposals for presentations on other aspects of Free Software and Free Culture, such as educational
[Foundation-l] Fwd: linux.conf.au Call for Papers are now open
Hi all, I would not normally forward an open source conference CFP to this list, but I think this case has particular merit. The linux.conf.au 2010 Call for Papers closes this Friday. LCA is a free software technical conference, but one of the topics they are targeting this year is Free Software and Free Culture topics, including licencing and Free and Open approaches outside software. Also, the first announced keynote speaker is Benjamin Mako Hill, who is on the WMF's advisory board. It's a really enjoyable full-on technical community conference, so if a trip to the southern hemisphere in January sounds OK by you please think about submitting a proposal. (see Information for speakers http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/papers_info to find out about benefits for speakers) It's on during January 18-23 2010 in Wellington, NZ. I am going to try and organise a meet-up the weekend before the conference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington cheers, Brianna -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Davies mich...@the-davies.net Date: 2009/6/29 Subject: [lca10-papers] linux.conf.au Call for Papers are now open! To: linux SA list linu...@linuxsa.org.au -- Forwarded message -- From: linux.conf.au Announcements lca-annou...@lists.linux.org.au Date: 2009/6/29 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au Call for Papers are now open! To: lca-annou...@lists.linux.org.au === linux.conf.au Call For Papers === linux.conf.au ( http://www.lca2010.org.nz ) is pleased to announce the opening of its Call for Papers for the coming linux.conf.au, LCA2010! LCA2010 will be held from Monday 18 January 2010 to Saturday 23 January 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand. linux.conf.au isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical conference about Free and Open Source Software, held annually in Australasia since 2001 - covering everything from the Linux Kernel and the BSDs to OpenOffice.org, from networking to audio-visual magic, from hardware hacks to Creative Commons. === Important Dates === Call for Papers opens: Monday 29 June 2009 Call for Papers closes: Friday 24 July 2009 Email Notifications from Papers Committee: Early September 2009 Registrations open: Mid September 2009 Conference Dates: Monday 18 January to Saturday 23 January 2001 === Information on Papers === The LCA2010 Papers Committee is looking for a broad range of papers spanning everything from programming and software to desktop and userspace to community, government and education but there is one essential: The core of your paper must relate to open source in some way, i.e., if it's a paper about software then the software has to be licensed under an Open Source license. The LCA2010 Papers Committee welcome proposals for Papers on the following topics: * Kernel and system topics such as filesystems and embedded devices * Networking topics such as peer to peer networking, or tuning a TCP/IP stack * Desktop topics such as office and productivity applications, mobile devices, peripherals, crypto security and viruses and other malware * Server topics such as clusters and other supercomputers, databases and grid computing * Systems administration topics such as maintaining large numbers of machines and disaster recovery * Programming topics such as software engineering practices and test driven development * Free Software and Free Culture topics, including licencing and Free and Open approaches outside software * Free Software usage topics, including home, IT, education, manufacturing, research and government usage. Most presentations and tutorials will be technical in nature, but proposals for presentations on other aspects of Free Software and Free Culture, such as educational and cultural aspects are welcome. LCA2010 is pleased to invite proposals for three types of papers: * Presentation - 45 minutes * Tutorials - 1 hour and 45 minutes (short) * Tutorials - 3 hours and 30 minutes (long) Presentations are 45 minute slots (including questions) that are typically a one-way lecture from you to the audience - the typical conference presentation. These form the bulk of the available conference slots. Tutorials are either 1 hour and 45 minutes, or 3 hours and 30 minutes in length, and work best when they are interactive or hands-on in nature. Tutorials are expected to have a specific learning outcome for attendees. To increase the number of people that can view your talk, LCA2010 may video the talks and make them publicly available after LCA2010. When submitting your proposal you will be asked whether materials relating to your paper can be released under a Creative Commons ShareALike License. For more information, see: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/papers_info === About linux.conf.au === linux.conf.au is one of the world's best conferences for free and open source software! The coming linux.conf.au, LCA2010, will be
[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] WMF board election - inspiration for candidates
Hi, There are just 3 days left for community members to nominate themselves as candidates in the upcoming Board election. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Candidates/en Stu West, who is the Board's Treasurer and has served on the board since April 2008, wrote this piece, below, about why serving on the Board is rewarding and he has kindly said I can share it more widely. I hope that it may serve as some inspiration for any potential Board candidates who are considering running but having trouble answering ...Why? Please think of who you know in our communities that may be a good candidate and encourage them to consider standing. Let us support candidates that are as truly diverse as the communities themselves. cheers, Brianna === Brianna's request got me thinking about why 15 months ago I was excited to join the board and why now I'm still enjoying it. Of course I'm intent on supporting the projects in general, and think the community is accomplishing amazing things with our free knowledge projects and having an incredibly positive impact on the entire globe. And just being around the energy, idealism and internationalism of our community is positive for me and balances a world that seems too full of recession and war and other negatives. On top of these general interests that many get by participating in our community, serving on the board is worth it for me personally for a few reasons: - I have a strong interest in organizational development and sustainability. Serving at the board level allows me to focus on policy development, organizational structure and other high-level issues to help ensure our projects are still thriving and pursuing the mission in 100 years. I'm also intellectually interested in the challenge of maintaining a community's culture even as it grows and succeeds (my day job at Silicon Valley startups is also about this). - I believe my particular skills (organizational development, finance, operations, negotiating) are really useful to the foundation right now and being able to put those to work -- and to see impact -- is very satisfying. - I'm one of those people who typically prefers the big picture view and enjoys understanding how all the different pieces tie together (again, this also applies to my day job). For example, I think my edit count is highest on meta. This is a natural fit with a board role. - I'm really passionate about a few things related to our community (including developing world education, usability, and operational efficiencies), and the Board gives me a position to understand these and at times advocate for them. = -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Alternating sitenotices is kinda confusing
Hi, I think having alternating sitenotices (between the licensing vote and the Wikimania CFP/scholarships) is confusing for some people who expect to see a link there for voting. See the comments at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13967 for example. Could we please have both at once, or if not, just the licensing one? I think the licensing vote is important enough that everyone should be given the best possible opportunity to participate. thanks, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Alternating sitenotices is kinda confusing
2009/4/15 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: 2009/4/14 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net: That's okay, my previous reply was a little snarky itself. I don't know that we have a perfect solution, but I think the mixed messages are worth fixing. Agreed, and this is an issue that will occur again when we have overlapping important announcements. My intuitive take is that stacking messages, or moving them into different places, aren't scalable solutions. It might be desirable to have a minimal tab interface to switch between multiple active notices. We'll kick around some ideas, but if anyone wants to create mock-ups or make suggestions, please do :-) Tabs are for stuff you care about. It doesn't make sense to use them for unbidden notices. The notices could be briefer, I mean they could be Licensing update - vote and Wikimania scholarships - apply. Then combining them would not be so bad. A long term resolution is a good idea, but to resolve the current problem, could we please at least combine the messages for the term of the licensing vote? Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 voting now open
Hi, I didn't see it announced yet, so here goes - voting for the 2008 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year is now open. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2008 Voting eligibility: all Wikimedians who were registered before 1 January 2009 and with at least 200 edits on any Wikimedia project (at time of voting) Voting period: Round 1 closes on Feb 26. Images: There are 501 images, which were made Featured Pictures during 2008. They are arranged into 11 categories (14 galleries). The top 10% from each category will go to Round 2, the final round. There will be category winners as well as the overall picture of the year. More coverage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-02-16/Commons_Picture_of_the_Year cheers, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 voting now open
2009/2/17 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: Hello, I did not even realise it had not been announced and I already voted a few days ago :-) My two cents * great images. Really top stuff * but the voting system... SO unpractical :-( If you voted early, I think the voting system has been improved since then. You should take another look (while logged in!). There is just little buttons and text fields below each image to let you vote and leave a comment, and if you have already voted you get a message You have already voted for this image. I think it's really great. I have meant to ask what happened with the toolserver (or the team dealing with the toolserver) so that it could not be used this year ? Bryan I ran the comp last year, and were too busy to commit to running it this year. This year I am just a cheerleader. ;) I think it was just difficult communicating all the needed info about galleries, etc, because Bryan wasn't too involved. In future years if Bryan is involved or someone else comfortable with the toolserver that software can be used again, if they want. Alternatively, if you really want to keep voting pages separately for each image, it would have been easier to vote on a separate page rather than at the bottom of the description page (long to load + generous scrolling of numerous languages description). I think the voting actually does happen on a separate page, it just has a huge introduction in many languages. :) A good place to leave comments for the organisers (and future organisers) to see, would be http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Picture_of_the_Year/2008. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia IdeaTorrent?
2009/1/29 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: If you haven't seen it yet, Ubuntu is running an interesting brainstorming software called IdeaTorrent to think collectively about common problems and solutions: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ The software: http://www.ideatorrent.org/ I wonder - would people consider it useful to set up something like brainstorm.wikimedia.org using this software, or would it be too duplicative of BugZilla and listservs? The benefit of IdeaTorrent is that it's very straightforward for non-technical users to contribute ideas and solutions. And, of course, it could be used for non-technical problems as well. Sounds wonderful. I would strongly support it. I did not yet notice an accepted procedure for MW feature requests or roadmap type stuff. Is there a way to separate requests e.g. for different projects? Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikipedia. Plus a general/default section for stuff that benefits multiple/all projects. /me has a look at the demo... when you submit a request, you can choose a category... and you can view by category as well, cool. Well that is my suggestion for that. :) cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
