This statement is such a lie that I cannot let it stay here unresponded.
You imply the board seat of Matt Halprin. Matt had long left Omidyar, if
his board seat was bought, we had had to chose someone else from that
Foundation to replace him. As we had explained before many times, Matt
is on
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:26 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
For comparison, I understand that Wikibooks are considered somewhat
owned by the person starting the book.
As an admin on Wikibooks I'd beg to differ. I'll point out this page which
sums up the project's opinion:
On 06/21/2011 04:35 PM, Lodewijk wrote:
Lets try to approach this from another angle.
Perhaps simple Wikipedia should not be considered as a different language,
but rather as a different project - a simplified Wikipedia. Because the
purpose of simple wikipedia's can be debated of course, but
Ting Chen wrote:
Am 21.06.2011 18:15, schrieb MZMcBride:
Thomas Morton wrote:
As a follow up to the discussion about Bitcoins (during the board elections)
accepting them as donations... I thought this article by the EFF
explaining why they no longer accept BC sets out some interesting
On 22 June 2011 17:25, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Ting Chen wrote:
Am 21.06.2011 18:15, schrieb MZMcBride:
Thomas Morton wrote:
As a follow up to the discussion about Bitcoins (during the board
elections)
accepting them as donations... I thought this article by the EFF
Michael Snow wrote:
I thought it was reasonably understandable, even without perfect
grammar, that Ting was saying that since Matt is no longer at Omidyar,
if your insinuation were true, when he left the foundation would have
needed to bring in someone new from Omidyar to fill their board
On 6/22/2011 10:14 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
Michael Snow wrote:
I thought it was reasonably understandable, even without perfect
grammar, that Ting was saying that since Matt is no longer at Omidyar,
if your insinuation were true, when he left the foundation would have
needed to bring in someone
Hi,
Just to feed the troll:
1) Just because you don't remember doesn't mean your interpretation is true.
Its not true, I was there (and haven't forgotten) and it isn't true. Please
feel free to continue doubting me, but:
2) Honestly I don't see the relation to the EFF BItcoins discussion, so:
I would like to personally thank the WMF staff and board for having
pursued this.
Good luck.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus
(friends of the court) brief in Golan v. Holder, a
Hello Geoff,
great work you are doing here.
Greetings
Ting
On 22.06.2011 20:40, wrote Geoff Brigham:
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus
(friends of the court) brief in Golan v. Holder, a case of great
importance before the Supreme Court that will affect our
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus
(friends of the court) brief in Golan v. Holder, a case of great
importance before the Supreme Court that will affect our understanding of
the public
On 22 June 2011 20:15, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to personally thank the WMF staff and board for having
pursued this.
Seconded. This is something important enough we need to stand up about it.
Is there anything we can do, in practical terms, to support this?
I'm very pleased with this amicus brief, specially because it joins both an
organization that I spent my free time getting fun (Wikimedia) and a
organization that represents my professional categorie (American Association
of Libraries, despite the fact that I'm not a US citizen).
Congratulations
Thank you for sharing! This potentially has a big impact indeed, and the
support of the WMF seems more than appropriate.
Is this something the WMF will do more often in the future (or has done in
the past) or is this an extreme exception due to its importance?
With kind regards,
Lodewijk
2011/6/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com
There are at least three serious issues in creation of such projects, if
they are not defined strictly linguistically:
* Scope. Which age do we cover, approximately? Any valid theory would be
useful, but it should be defined. According to Piaget, less
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 22:24, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
2011/6/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com
There are at least three serious issues in creation of such projects, if
they are not defined strictly linguistically:
* Scope. Which age do we cover, approximately? Any valid
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 15:00, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there anything we can do, in practical terms, to support this?
IANAL, but I think the most practical support any of us could do would be
donations to the EFF (who'll actually argue the case for our side) or
sympathetic
On 22 June 2011 21:14, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Is this something the WMF will do more often in the future (or has done in
the past) or is this an extreme exception due to its importance?
I was talkiing to someone today, describing WMF as an 800lb gorilla
that tries very
Kat Walsh writes:
I'm really happy to see us start getting involved in this kind of
work; I think it too is part of fulfilling our mission. Thanks for
your work on this, Geoff.
Chiming in here -- I'm very happy to see Geoff's announcement too. As Geoff
and a few others here know, I've favored
On Bitcoin-- we (and the web in general) desperately need a
zero-overhead micropayment system of some kind. I can't help but
think our fundraising efforts would be helped if people would able to,
on impulse and without premeditation, donate $1 to WMF in thanks for
particular articles and have
I'm so overjoyed to see we've taken this step! Good work Board,
Staff, Counsel, and everyone else!!!
It always seemed our obvious destiny to lend a helping hand to
important issues like this, I'm really really happy that this day has
arrived.
Is there anything we can do, in practical terms, to
On 22 June 2011 18:24, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
I tend to think any time we can be seen standing next to the the
Librarians, we come off looking good. The most we can associate those
two-- ALA, WMF; ALA, WMF; The more we do that, the more outsiders
will get us as a
On 22 June 2011 19:40, Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Wikimedia Foundation joined the EFF brief in light of the tremendously
important role that the public domain plays in our mission to collect and
develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain,
and
On 23 June 2011 03:09, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm particularly pleased about that part too, Alec, for exactly the
reason you give. They're our natural allies, and having that be
publicly visible helps people understand us better :-)
I imagine that having non-US GLAMs
On 23/06/11 10:18, Alec Conroy wrote:
On Bitcoin-- we (and the web in general) desperately need a
zero-overhead micropayment system of some kind. I can't help but
think our fundraising efforts would be helped if people would able to,
on impulse and without premeditation, donate $1 to WMF
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