Re: [Wikimedia-l] Love on the wikis

I'd suggest that you look at something more culturally neutral, such as the International Day of Peace . And, of course, you must celebrate Singles Awareness Day next year! Il 14/02/2015 03:14, Fabrice Florin ha scr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

See also https://creativecommons.org/board , https://creativecommons.org/tag/ceo It's important to note that CC has dozens of independent national "chapters" (affiliates https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Category:Jurisdictions ), many of which are university centres/departments; some are rathe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

It appears to me from my surface-level review that there are some long-term finance and governance troubles at the main CC org. Now seems like a good time for WMF and other relevant orgs to develop a contingency plan in case the main CC org continues to have problems or ceases to be functional. I h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

Kat, Thanks for the comments. You say that CC "has its struggles but this is not something I currently see as a major concern". Would you be able to encourage CC to post more recent 990s and audits so that others can evaluate for ourselves? If CC published a rehabilitation plan, that would be help

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Engineering Community

Personal opinion: as I recall, a big chunk of that scorn came from WMF engineers. I appreciate it wasn't your intent, but the way you're phrasing things here makes it look very much like you're saying 'hey, I bumped your salary, throw some of your time my way' - which is not how it works. Ideas sho

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Love on the wikis

Thanks for your feedback, MZ, Pine, Emily and John, I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed this content collection about love. We’ll review the impact of this curation experiment at the end of next week and share our findings afterwards. I like Pine’s suggestion of hosting an office hours on this ge

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Quarterly Report, October-December 2014

Hi all, As Erik announced in November [1], the Foundation has changed its reporting from the monthly cycle that has been in place since 2008 to a quarterly rhythm. A main reason being to better align it with the quarterly planning and goalsetting process that has been extended to the entire organi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Accounting software for thematic orgs

Hi Treasurers and other finance people, I realize that we had this discussion some months ago about accounting software. I just wanted to follow up by letting you know that Cascadia decided to go with Xero as we start. Your advice was helpful and I greatly appreciate it. I hope to meet many of yo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

Kat Walsh wrote: >I guess I am in as good a place as any to try to answer this question >(and I'm speaking only for myself, here). > >[...] > >So the organization and the licenses are tied together in that someone >needs to be the license steward, but not necessarily the organization >in its curren