[Foundation-l] EN Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 36 Number: 117

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Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Jennifer Riggs leaves Wikimedia

2009-09-17 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/17 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org: However, Jennifer and I have agreed that despite those contributions, she ultimately will not be a good fit for the Chief Program Officer role.  That doesn't mean her path will never cross ours again, and it's not a decision intended to reflect

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Jennifer Riggs leaves Wikimedia

2009-09-17 Thread Sue Gardner
Thanks Thomas; we're sorry about it too. The real problem won't be so much who will take over the work -- Jennifer had only been on the job about five months, so she was mostly in building/thinking/planning mode rather than executing mode. So the real problem will be a hit to our ability to

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread Gregory Kohs
Congratulations to Anya, and it sounds like Rand made a nice choice. Anya, if you wish to continue receiving my assistance on the 2009 Fundraising Survey that I helped design, I hope that Rand will put you in touch with me during the data analysis phase. I think a key break-out for analysis will

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Jennifer Riggs leaves Wikimedia

2009-09-17 Thread Nathan
Thanks Sue. You mention a sort of re-envisioning process for the Chief Program Officer role - can you give us an idea of the challenges that you and Jennifer encountered with the current concept of a CPO, and what types of changes you might consider making? Nathan

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread Michael Peel
On 17 Sep 2009, at 17:22, Gregory Kohs wrote: They are a key constituency in supporting the financial stream, as every single one of them is worth 16 or more average donors. This doesn't seem quite right to me. average donors may financially be worth less in each donation, but remember

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/17 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: On 17 Sep 2009, at 17:22, Gregory Kohs wrote: They are a key constituency in supporting the financial stream, as every single one of them is worth 16 or more average donors. This doesn't seem quite right to me. average donors may financially be

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Frieda Brioschi
2009/9/16 Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com: We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating in Italy. How many originating from Wikimedia Italia? I'd like to see any official complaints that have been filed in Italian courts (or elsewhere) against Wikimedia Italia.

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Mike Godwin
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Frieda Brioschi ubifri...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/9/16 Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com: We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating in Italy. How many originating from Wikimedia Italia? Not many, and perhaps not any -- in

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Frieda Brioschi
2009/9/17 Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com: How many originating from Wikimedia Italia? Not many, and perhaps not any -- in general the spurious threat is against WMF itself, so far as I can recall. As far as I remember we asked WMF help just once, few months ago. There were nothing in the news

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Ciao, 2009/9/17 Frieda Brioschi ubifri...@gmail.com: I'll forward to you a copy of the document in few minutes. It's in italian. Is it ok for you? I'd like also to have a copy. Can you put it online? Would you infringe some law if you put in Wikisource? If it's not possible to put online,

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Frieda Brioschi
2009/9/17 Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton...@gmail.com: Ciao, I'd like also to have a copy. Can you put it online? Would you infringe some law if you put in Wikisource? If it's not possible to put online, please, send to my email. Sorry, I can't publish it. But tomorrow morning (now it's 10

Re: [Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

2009-09-17 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/15 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com: This is entirely off-topic, and could be continued in wikitech-l, if you're really eager to tell how you modify compressed files in place. ;-) You can decode bzipped files an arbitrary block at a time (which makes reader apps surprisingly viable

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Sue Gardner
2009/9/17 Frieda Brioschi ubifri...@gmail.com: 2009/9/16 Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com: We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating in Italy. How many originating from Wikimedia Italia? I'd like to see any official complaints that have been filed in Italian

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/17 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: This doesn't seem quite right to me. average donors may financially be worth less in each donation, but remember that there's a lot more of them, and they're more likely to give repeat donations. Also, there's more to worth than just financial, e.g.

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Office Move

2009-09-17 Thread Samuel Klein
I'm sure Erik has been dying for the chance to run multilingual rcbirds in a corner with some custom west-coast birdcalls On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: and, in terms of data displays I've always been a fan of WikipediaVision

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:22 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/17 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: This doesn't seem quite right to me. average donors may financially be worth less in each donation, but remember that there's a lot more of them, and they're more likely to give

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Jennifer Riggs leaves Wikimedia

2009-09-17 Thread Samuel Klein
Thank you for this announcement, though I am sorry to hear it. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Sue Gardner susanpgard...@gmail.com wrote: Here's an example: As you know, we have long wanted to create a program making grants to volunteers -- both to chapters and individual Wikimedians.  Erik