[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Community Fellowships open call

2011-12-07 Thread Siko Bouterse
WMF is now seeking fellowship applicants and project ideas for the Community Fellowships Program. Community members from all Wikimedia projects and all languages are strongly encouraged to apply by the deadline of January 15th 2012. Wikimedia Community Fellows are spearheading community projects

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-07 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 07/12/2011 4:47 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Uhm, that was not actually what I wrote, but what I was rebutting Oh! Err, well, then you are obviously correct. Carry on! :-) -- Coren / Marc ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-07 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > On 01/12/2011 7:58 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> "[...] yes, we may be building up a list of categories that could be >> reused by censorware sellers, but that’s not our primary intention." > > I'm sorry, but who the fsck cares about

[Foundation-l] Community Fellowships open call

2011-12-07 Thread Siko Bouterse
Dear colleagues, WMF is now seeking fellowship applicants and project ideas for the Community Fellowships Program . Community members from all Wikimedia projects and all languages are strongly encouraged to apply by the deadline of January 15th

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator: Lori Byrd Phillips

2011-12-07 Thread Asaf Bartov
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce Lori Byrd Phillips as the *United States Cultural Partnerships Coordinator* in 2012. Read all about it in our blog post and FAQ: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/07/us-cultural-partnerships-coordinator-lori-byrd-phillips/ Asaf Bartov Wikim

Re: [Foundation-l] US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator

2011-12-07 Thread aude
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce Lori Byrd Phillips as the > United States Cultural Partnerships Coordinator in 2012. Read all about it > in our blog post and FAQ: > > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/07/us-cultural-partnersh

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising and misunderstanding?

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas Morton
On 7 December 2011 19:05, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 7 December 2011 18:08, Thomas Morton > wrote: > > Well you know; at the start of the drive the foundation is short of cash. > > Not really. The Foundation has plenty of reserves. The fundraising > drives aren't a desparate attempt to avoid goin

[Foundation-l] US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator

2011-12-07 Thread Asaf Bartov
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce Lori Byrd Phillips as the United States Cultural Partnerships Coordinator in 2012. Read all about it in our blog post and FAQ: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/07/us-cultural-partnerships-coordinator-lori-byrd-phillips/ Asaf Bartov Wikimed

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising and misunderstanding?

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 7 December 2011 18:08, Thomas Morton wrote: > Well you know; at the start of the drive the foundation is short of cash. Not really. The Foundation has plenty of reserves. The fundraising drives aren't a desparate attempt to avoid going bankrupt. They are a routine, planned way of generating re

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising and misunderstanding?

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas Morton
On 7 December 2011 17:28, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 7 December 2011 15:28, Woojin Kim wrote: > > Wikimedia Foundation fundraising is now making a misunderstanding about > > Wikipedia. Some mass media report that WMF and WP is now encountering > > financial difficulties so WMF urges public donati

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising and misunderstanding?

2011-12-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 7 December 2011 15:28, Woojin Kim wrote: > Wikimedia Foundation fundraising is now making a misunderstanding about > Wikipedia. Some mass media report that WMF and WP is now encountering > financial difficulties so WMF urges public donation.[1][2][3] Well, I don't > know that is what WMF intend

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: office hours this morning with WMF General Counsel

2011-12-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It's quite back now, also at Geoff's request. :) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > It was deleted at Geoff's request; I'm not c

[Foundation-l] Fundraising and misunderstanding?

2011-12-07 Thread Woojin Kim
Wikimedia Foundation fundraising is now making a misunderstanding about Wikipedia. Some mass media report that WMF and WP is now encountering financial difficulties so WMF urges public donation.[1][2][3] Well, I don't know that is what WMF intended to say, but we need to let the public know facts.

Re: [Foundation-l] We now accept $$$

2011-12-07 Thread Béria Lima
And I still wait for the day we start to accept Brazilian reais (so I don't have 20 OTRS messages / day asking about it ;) ) _ *Béria Lima* (351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conheci