Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal

2014-10-11 Thread Pine W
Thank you for that information, Asaf, Kirill, and James. James: my point still stands that somehow at IEGCom we are able to respond substantively to almost 100% if inquiries within 7 days. It seems to me that if we can do this at IEGCom, then asking Legal and Affcom to commit to substantively

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal

2014-10-11 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Pine, I think nobody wants to say that questions should take longer to get answered - we all would like your inquiries to be answered sooner rather than later. To accomplish this, the Committee has made changes in its workflow several times in the past year, to especially make user group

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

2014-10-11 Thread Nurunnaby Hasive
Hi All, We Bengali Wikipedia community arrange a Nobel Prize Edit-a-thon this edit-a-thon to be held next October 14 at 5-8PM. In this time we add this year Nobel laureate details at Bengali Wikipedia. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 9 October

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: September 2014

2014-10-11 Thread The 'This Month in GLAM' team
*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal

2014-10-11 Thread Pine W
Hi Lodewijk, Let me make a few points: 1. I appreciate that Affcom is working to make its outputs more timely, especially for user group decisions. 2. I hear you say that you are under-resourced with volunteers and staff support. I appreciate that serving on Affcom is probably one of the more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal

2014-10-11 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Pine, We are actively following the case of Cascadia Wikimedians to see whether we can facilitate the signing of the user group agreement between the user group and WMFLegal (the group's recognition has been approved by AffCom in September -- apologies in any delays you have experienced up to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal

2014-10-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Pine W, 11/10/2014 22:05: 4. We in Cascadia Wikimedians (and I imagine other thematic organizations) have our own timelines that we need to deal with, and needing to wait indefinitely for Affcom and Legal to make decisions [...] a) Be aware it's impossible to understant what you're talking

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal

2014-10-11 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: 3. I don't hear of a need for more staff support for Affcom from the most recent Grantmaking quarterly review [1], so I am not sure if and when this is going to happen. This may be a point that Asaf can address. The idea of

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Serbia Executive Director

2014-10-11 Thread Filip Maljković
Hello everyone, I'd like to announce Ivan Nikčević as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Serbia. After a two month process, and with more than 200 submissions, we finally managed to narrow it down to one person, who we hope will be a great contribution to our organization, and a successful

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Serbia Executive Director

2014-10-11 Thread Asaf Bartov
Congratulations, WMRS! I look forward to working with Ivan. A. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Filip Maljković dungod...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'd like to announce Ivan Nikčević as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Serbia. After a two month process, and with more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Serbia Executive Director

2014-10-11 Thread Sydney Poore
Welcome. Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Oct 11, 2014 6:50 PM, Filip Maljković dungod...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'd like to announce Ivan Nikčević as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Serbia. After a two month process, and with more than 200 submissions, we finally managed