Re: [Foundation-l] Board meeting update

2009-12-01 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Michael, thanks a lot for sharing this short overview with us. I look forward to more extensive minutes of course and hope they will be published not too long from now - especially considering the strategic process that is going on. You mentioned the nominating committee and their imput. I'm

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-12-01 Thread Anthony
Also, please address my point that banning self-identified pedophiles from editing merely entourages pedophile editors to *not* identify themselves as such (thereby increasing the likelihood that problematic activities will be overlooked). If that were true, then we wouldn't have banned

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, December 3

2009-12-01 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! Next Thursday's office hours will feature Jay Walsh, the Foundation's Head of Communications. If you don't know Jay you can learn all about him at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:JayWalsh. Office hours on Thursday are from 1700

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-12-01 Thread Tim Landscheidt
George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: The hand in hand with children wording seems to conflate physical space with cyberspace.  Please see my relevant reply to George William Herbert. There's a known and ancedotally (but not known to be statistically) significant trend of

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-12-01 Thread David Levy
Anthony wrote: Also, please address my point that banning self-identified pedophiles from editing merely entourages pedophile editors to *not* identify themselves as such (thereby increasing the likelihood that problematic activities will be overlooked). If that were true,

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-12-01 Thread Pharos
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: This is a follow up to my proposal that Fan History Wiki join the wMF family, based on my experiences via e-mail, on the list and on strategy

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-12-01 Thread Samuel Klein
Thanks for this repost, Laura. I don't know where 18 months comes from, but it is much much too long :-) It might be more accurate to say that our project proposal process is broken, and we simply need to fix it. The Meta process for requesting a new project is what I have in mind. As

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-12-01 Thread Liam Wyatt
Great analysis SJ. By the way - since we're talking about working with other organisations outside of Wikimedia Projects, there is another Strategic Planning taskforce that people might be interested in weighing in on. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alliances_and_Partnerships_Task_Force The

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-12-01 Thread Ben Moskowitz
Amen! On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:49 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: As a pillar of the free culture community, it might also be useful for us to welcome such interest rather than frustrating it, ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org