[Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Zaharias Diakonikolaou
The pontic wikipedia (which has been approved but it hasn't been created yet) is running elections to vote its admins and bureaucrats. This is done as a preparation for our creation, in order to be ready for the moment when we can finally start for real. Everyone who would like to vote is welcome

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Dan Rosenthal
This indeed. Good for them for dealing with these issues in advance rather than waiting until the need for a crat is critical. -Dan On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Muhammad Alsebaey wrote: +1 on them having their own crat and admins since they were approved, what possible harm could that

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Zaharias Diakonikolaou
Hello, The previous week, we the pontic wikipedia community arranged a meeting in our channel in IRC chat. There we thought that we should make elections in order to be prepared for the creation of the wiki and so we decided who would be the candidates for administrators and that we should also

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Sorry, I only later saw that the pontic Wikipedia is still not created. It would be not good to have non created Wikipedias in the list of Tell Us. Kind regards Ziko 2009/1/27 Zaharias Diakonikolaou zadiak1...@gmail.com Hello, The previous week, we the pontic wikipedia community arranged a

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

2009-01-27 Thread Ray Saintonge
Sam Johnston wrote: Gerard Meijssen wrote: If you are of the opinion that things can be done differently, please explain how. A printer makes money, that is how he earns his crust. So how would non-profit printing work. Does it exist ? You are also under the impression that we are meeting

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

2009-01-27 Thread Sam Johnston
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: Just how much control do you expect from the Central Committee? Sure, it's a given that some will-intentioned initiatives will go dreadfully awry. Bad things have happened in the past, and bad things will happen in