On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
controlled by Brazilians. At the same time I don't think there is any
value to having a WMF appointee on your
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote:
On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
controlled by Brazilians. At the same
Le jeudi 01 septembre 2011 à 16:37 +0100, Jimmy Wales a écrit :
I had never thought of this before, but now that it has been mentioned,
I just wanted to disagree, quite respectfully because Ray is awesome of
course, and say that I think it is a very interesting idea to have a WMF
appointee
Hi, sorry for top posting.
A quick historical note, really early on some chapters had a WMF representative
with a lot of power. We moved from that next to a lawyer recommandation as it
created legal links between WMF and chapters hence increasing the legal risks
for all the organizations and
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On 9/1/11 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
controlled by Brazilians. At the same time I don't think there is any
On 9/1/11 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
controlled by Brazilians. At the same time I don't think there is any
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote:
On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
controlled by Brazilians. At the
On 2 September 2011 20:11, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
I can not help commenting a bit more on the matter of conflict of
interest. I think I can probably say more on the matter than most
people here.
If I could +1 this message I would.
Our bylaws were changed a few years
On 9/2/2011 12:11 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
On 9/1/11 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
controlled by Brazilians.
On 9/2/11 10:02 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
On 9/2/2011 12:11 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
On 9/1/11 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities
*If the point is to improve communication, then a more practical approach
might be to designate observers who are not given authority but merely sit
in with a chapter board. That's assuming that the chapter board level is one
of the places where it makes the most sense to add a communication
On 02.09.2011 22:02, Michael Snow wrote:
For those reading whose memories may not be quite long enough - I assume
Florence is referring to Michael Davis here, not to me. The conflict of
interest policy was adopted in 2006, before I was on the board. I just
thought it would help to make the
On 9/2/2011 1:35 PM, Béria Lima wrote:
*If the point is to improve communication, then a more practical approach
might be to designate observers who are not given authority but merely sit
in with a chapter board. That's assuming that the chapter board level is one
of the places where it makes
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
On 9/2/2011 1:35 PM, Béria Lima wrote:
*If the point is to improve communication, then a more practical
approach
might be to designate observers who are not given authority but merely
sit
in with a chapter board.
And Jan-Bart and Kul knows about European and Asia laws? Jean-Bart and Kul
can go to General Assemblies? Jean Bart speak the 12-15 languages spoken in
European Chapters (i will not even mention how many languages Kul would need
to know to be the Asia representant)? Jan-Bart and Kul would decide
Errata: When i say Kul, i mean Barry. Sorry.
_
*Béria Lima*
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acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
fazer
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Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:43:35 +0200
From: Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Brasil + WMF
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On 09/02/11 1:59 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
On 9/2/2011 1:35 PM, Béria Lima wrote:
*If the point is to improve communication, then a more practical approach
might be to designate observers who are not given authority but merely sit
in with a chapter board. That's assuming that the chapter board
On 09/02/11 5:28 PM, Craig Franklin wrote:
Just to add to what Illario has said, I think it's important to remember
that most (if not all) chapters are run via a democratic system where the
entire board or committee is elected by its members. Appointing WMF members
to boards would obviously
On 09/02/11 1:02 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
Meanwhile, on the subject of mutual board appointments between chapters
and the foundation, I figured I'd chime in as I helped push the idea for
chapters to select foundation board members in the first place. For one
thing, there's a very different
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