Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal
Hi Nemo, Cascadia Wikimedians' current discussions with Affcom and WMF Legal are about some wording on the Affiliation Agreement document. We have not discussed becoming a chapter in any great detail, and as you note the WMF Board created a longevity requirement. We have had informal meetings in Cascadia for such a long time that I wonder if the WMF Board would consider a waiver in our case, but so far I think being a user group will be adequate for our needs in the near future. Hi Asaf, thanks for the info. I have previously heard comments from other affiliates about Affcom taking a long time to make decisions, but until now investigating that has been low on my priority stack. Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia DC Annual Plan for 2014-15
Hi everyone, Wikimedia DC's Annual Plan for 2014-15 has now been published at http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_plan_(2014–2015). As always, we welcome any comments or suggestions! Regards, Kirill -- Kirill Lokshin Secretary, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Serbia Executive Director
Dobre! Welcome to the movement, Ivan! Erlend Bjørtvedt Wikimedia Norway Den søndag 12. oktober 2014 skrev Filip Maljković dungod...@gmail.com følgende: Hello everyone, I'd like to announce Ivan Nikčević as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Serbia. After a two month process, and with more than 200 submissions, we finally managed to narrow it down to one person, who we hope will be a great contribution to our organization, and a successful leader thereof. Ivan's first day was on Friday. Here's a short auto-bio that he provided: Born in the 1970, an Information Technologies engineer by education. During his 20 years long work experience Ivan was marketing and PR manager, journalist, TV producer, TV host and presenter and an editor in chief for a weekly TV show on IT on Serbian national TV, he also was digital communications consultant. His last post before joining Wikimedia team in Serbia was project and online communications manager in Serbian Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications. Ivan was awarded twice for his exceptional contribution for development and promotion of IT technologies in Serbia, by major professional associations from Serbian ICT sector and was an author of a documentary film “50 years of ICT in Serbia”. Behind an amazing professional career, a proud father of 17 years old daughter, a lead singer and song writer in a pop band, addicted on movies and popcorn, pop music, internet and video games he lives his life online and offline trying to be as one of his icons – George Carlin would say “a modern man, digital and smoke-free; a man for the millennium.” Cheers, Filip Maljković Wikimedia Serbia President ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe -- *Erlend Bjørtvedt* Nestleder, Wikimedia Norge Vice chairman, Wikimedia Norway Mob: +47 - 9225 9227 http://no.wikimedia.org http://no.wikimedia.org/wiki/About_us ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal
Hello Pine, Although we cannot commit to a systematic 14-day response time for all inquiries, I do think that would be reasonable for routine inquiries, depending on the amount of collaboration outside of the legal department. As mentioned, AffCom is independent from the legal department, so I cannot make a commitment for them, but AffCom has made a few recent changes that aim to improve the process for user groups overall. I think that the legal team does respond well within 14 days for the vast majority of inquiries that we receive, and we will reemphasize the importance of this point with our attorneys at our next biweekly legal meeting. The legal team does not publish our quarterly goals because we do not want to show our strategy to adverse parties, such as cases where we litigate to defend WMF or to support the defense of users. That said, our public goals are linked to standard ongoing workflows, much of which you can find in the WMF's FDC proposal ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form/Ongoing_work_areas#Legal ). Best, Stephen On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nemo, Cascadia Wikimedians' current discussions with Affcom and WMF Legal are about some wording on the Affiliation Agreement document. We have not discussed becoming a chapter in any great detail, and as you note the WMF Board created a longevity requirement. We have had informal meetings in Cascadia for such a long time that I wonder if the WMF Board would consider a waiver in our case, but so far I think being a user group will be adequate for our needs in the near future. Hi Asaf, thanks for the info. I have previously heard comments from other affiliates about Affcom taking a long time to make decisions, but until now investigating that has been low on my priority stack. Pine ___ Affiliations Committee mailing list aff...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/affcom -- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *NOTICE: As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
