Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-26 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Mike Linksvayer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: > >> So at the very minimum, it would well serve us to know what the >> established standards are within CC-BY-SA, in particular focusing >> on the "BY" part. >> > > As others have pointed out on this

Re: [Foundation-l] Open Knowledge Foundation

2009-01-26 Thread Oldak Quill
Hi Lennart, I attended one of their conferences, OKCON, in London a couple of years ago. I was also involved with one of their projects, Open Shakespeare. They do a lot of work on open knowledge definitions and license compatibility. They are also involved in developing tools and in pushing specif

Re: [Foundation-l] Open Knowledge Foundation

2009-01-26 Thread Andrew Whitworth
OKFN hosted an open-textbooks meeting on IRC a while back. I attended, and I think one or two other Wikibookians attended as well. I haven't had any contact with them since, but I've wanted to either host or join another similar meeting with them in the future. --Andrew Whitworth On Mon, Jan 26,

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-26 Thread Ray Saintonge
Geoffrey Plourde wrote: > You are beating on a dead horse. Mr. Vibber has brought forth a list of > perfectly valid reasons why this space was taken. LET ME REITERATE THE COST > OF REWIRING/RECONFIGURING SPACE IN CALIFORNIA. Why should a taco stand use a > dry cleaning shop when it can get anoth

Re: [Foundation-l] The Ruth and Frank Stanton Fund

2009-01-26 Thread Marcus Buck
Thomas Dalton hett schreven: > 2009/1/26 Gregory Kohs : > >> Over here >> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Benefactors/De#Major_benefactors_.28.2450.2C000_or_more.29 >> >> ...the Wikimedia Foundation gives credit to "the Stanton Foundation". >> It's my learning that "the Stanton Foundatio

[Foundation-l] The Ruth and Frank Stanton Fund

2009-01-26 Thread Gregory Kohs
Thomas Dalton says: Given that the WMF will have had substantial communications with them for some time before getting the money, I think it's highly unlikely WMF would get their name wrong. What gives you the idea that the Stanton Foundation is a small Michigan non-profit? ++ For these r

Re: [Foundation-l] The Ruth and Frank Stanton Fund

2009-01-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/1/26 Gregory Kohs : > Over here > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Benefactors/De#Major_benefactors_.28.2450.2C000_or_more.29 > > ...the Wikimedia Foundation gives credit to "the Stanton Foundation". > It's my learning that "the Stanton Foundation" is a small non-profit > located in Jac

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-26 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > WMF used to really be a (choose a heavy-weight designation) pound > gorilla in the GFDL users pool. > > When we transition to the Creative Commons universe, we will > never again regain that status, and a combative stance will > do us

[Foundation-l] The Ruth and Frank Stanton Fund

2009-01-26 Thread Gregory Kohs
Over here http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Benefactors/De#Major_benefactors_.28.2450.2C000_or_more.29 ...the Wikimedia Foundation gives credit to "the Stanton Foundation". It's my learning that "the Stanton Foundation" is a small non-profit located in Jackon, Michigan. However, "The Ruth a

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-26 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
David Gerard wrote: > 2009/1/24 The Cunctator : > > >> I'm not sure why we're so stressed out about getting things exactly legally >> right, since once edit histories for anything created before 2002 / late >> 2001 were wiped out, any of those articles don't have an accurate author >> list. >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Open Knowledge Foundation

2009-01-26 Thread effe iets anders
They have Benjamin Mako Hill in their advisory board, who is also in the WMF AB. Other then that, I see nothing familiar. Best regards, Lodewijk 2009/1/26 Lennart Guldbrandsson > Hello, > > I was recently made aware of this organization: http://www.okfn.org/ with > their blog at http://blog.o

[Foundation-l] Open Knowledge Foundation

2009-01-26 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello, I was recently made aware of this organization: http://www.okfn.org/ with their blog at http://blog.okfn.org/ Have any of you had anything to do with them? Best wishes, Lennart -- Lennart Guldbrandsson, chair of Wikimedia Sverige and press contact for Swedish Wikipedia // ordförande