[Foundation-l] Glyn Moody on BLW

2010-02-01 Thread David Gerard
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/britain-loves-wikipedia-and-about-time.html I've added some background on what we do (ask nicely, take things slowly) and why. Others welcome, particularly as I've only done minimal GLAM liaison myself :-) - d.

Re: [Foundation-l] Glyn Moody on BLW

2010-02-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 February 2010 13:40, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/britain-loves-wikipedia-and-about-time.html I've added some background on what we do (ask nicely, take things slowly) and why. Others welcome, particularly as I've only done minimal GLAM

Re: [Foundation-l] Glyn Moody on BLW

2010-02-01 Thread Svip
On 1 February 2010 14:41, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 February 2010 13:40, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/britain-loves-wikipedia-and-about-time.html I've added some background on what we do (ask nicely, take things slowly) and

Re: [Foundation-l] Partnering with Telefonica to support Wikimedia's mission

2010-02-01 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
Today I'm excited to announce the Foundation's second major, multi-national partnership with a respected leader in global telecommunications: Telefónica. Most of you will have heard of, or perhaps are customers of, one of Telefónica's many properties and portals already. They are a Fortune

[Foundation-l] Call for Papers: WikiSym 2010 (Co-lo cated with Wikimania in Gdańsk, Poland)

2010-02-01 Thread R.Stuart Geiger
This year, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (aka WikiSym) will be co-located with Wikimania in Gdańsk, Poland. WikiSym will be 7-9 July, while Wikimania will be 9-11 July. We intend to have one day of overlap, but the conferences are otherwise separate, but related

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Air-L] Critical Point of View: Wikipedia Research Conference (Amsterdam, March 26/27)

2010-02-01 Thread phoebe ayers
Hmmm -- Forwarded message -- From: geert lovink ge...@desk.nl Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:30 AM Subject: [Air-L] Critical Point of View: Wikipedia Research Conference (Amsterdam, March 26/27) To: air air-l-aoir@listserv.aoir.org Critical Point of View: Second

[Foundation-l] Chapters Committee - Call for Candidates

2010-02-01 Thread Lodewijk
Dear all, As some of you will know, the Chapters Committee [1] is a Wikimedia Foundation board-appointed committee that is mainly responsible for the preparation of approval of new chapters. Currently, there are six members in the committee, and we are asking for candidates to increase the

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters Committee - Call for Candidates

2010-02-01 Thread Milos Rancic
Just to add my personal wish: I would like to see inside of the ChapCom members who are coming from a culturally/ethnically diverse areas (or members with significant experience in those areas). For example, India, Russia (out of monoethnic areas, but including Moscow), Middle East, Indochina,