Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strange, surprising, bold and unnecessary - reply to the WMF board statement

2013-02-07 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
hi Theo, On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't you start by asking those questions to WMF, then WMDE then WMUK and any other chapter filing a budget with FDC. This organization just had the bare minimum personnel spending it needed to accomplish the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strange, surprising, bold and unnecessary - reply to the WMF board statement

2013-02-07 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: BTW that entire rag tag group of amateurs doing something amazing, doesn't hold very true indefinitely We were doing something amazing when we started, but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strange, surprising, bold and unnecessary - reply to the WMF board statement

2013-02-07 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Yes, thank you, Markus. A little note on the draft by Delphine (I believe it is that one referred to on the talk page): she sent it to the lists shortly before the Council meeting in Washington. I myself found that it contained a lot of reasonable items, but that at the moment it was not quite

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF January 2013 Metrics and Activities Meeting: Thursday, Feb. 7, 19:00 UTC

2013-02-07 Thread Praveena Maharaj
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Praveena Maharaj pmaha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities will take place on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office* *on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Schedule for FDC Round 2 and guidelines for the process

2013-02-07 Thread Anasuya Sengupta
I wanted to do a quick follow-up to remind everyone that for Year 1 of the FDC, we had agreed that there would be no Letter of Intent (LoI) required of those entities wanting to apply.[1] So for those interested in applying for Round 2, what is required is to close all eligibility gaps by February

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia engineering January 2013 report

2013-02-07 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in January 2013 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/January Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/07/engineering-january-2013-report/ We're also proposing a shorter,