[Wikimedia Brasil] WMF busca un miembro para el Board (msg Patricio)
Galera, Encaminho mais uma mensagem do Patricio Lorente enviada à lista do Iberocoop. Dessa vez, sobre a escolha do novo membro do Board. Abs, Vinicius Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 19:21:42 -0300 From: gali...@gmail.com To: iberoc...@listas.iberocoop.org Subject: [Iberocoop] WMF busca un miembro para el Board -- Forwarded message -- From: Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:40 AM Subject: Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation - Board Member search To: Galileo Vidoni gali...@gmail.com Galio, por favor, ¿podrías enviar este email a la lista interna de Iberocoop? Abrazo, Patricio Queridos amigos: La Fundación se encuentra a la búsqueda de un nuevo miembro del Board en reemplazo de Matt Halprin, cuyo mandato venció el 31 de diciembre pasado. Como ustedes saben, cuatro de los diez miembros no son electos sino que son seleccionados por el propio Board para complementar los perfiles existentes. Se le ha encargado a una consultora que ya trabajó con la Fundación que hiciera una primer selección. No es un trabajo fácil, ya que se trata de una responsabilidad importante, que demanda tiempo y que es completamente voluntaria. Cada uno de los miembros del Board hemos sido entrevistados para tratar de definir prioridades y orientar la búsqueda, y si bien no conozco los detalles de las demás entrevistas, parece ser que todos hemos coincidido a la hora de considerar la diversidad como un valor en sí para nuestro movimiento y apuntar la búsqueda a un candidato que en lo posible no fuera del mundo angloparlante (aunque el conocimiento del inglés es imprescindible) y aún mejor si fuera del sur del mundo y mujer. Y un compromiso tangible con valores similares (no necesariamente idénticos) a los que nosotros expresamos. El ejemplo de Bishakha para mí es muy importante: no viene del mundo Wikimedia pero tiene impresionantes antecedentes de trabajo con los sectores más postergados de su sociedad (en particular con mujeres desplazadas y prostitutas), y su aporte y compromiso en estos años ha sido invalorable. Quiero invitarlos a que nos ayuden en esta búsqueda con ideas y sugerencias. He estado tratando de imaginar personas e instituciones del mundo académico y/o del no gubernamental en América Latina, me parece que por allí puede surgir alguna posibilidad interesante. Les dejo abajo un email que me envió la responsable de la consultora con mayor información incluída la nota de presentación (en inglés) que están utilizando. No es información confidencial, aunque sería importante que coordináramos antes de contactar una persona o institución así no nos superponemos. Un abrazo, y gracias! Patricio Hi Patricio - it was so nice to meet you. Thanks for your time and insight into some of the characteristics of a new board member. As I said, we are focusing our outreach globally and are paying specific attention to the Global South. If you have ideas of individuals or organizations that we should specifically reach out to, please let me know. I will follow up on any suggestions. Additionally, I would encourage you to get the word out to your own networks in the hope that either someone will personally be interested, they will suggest someone else, or forward the email on to a wide community. The following is the email that we are sending to people announcing the Board position. It would be great if you could write or translate an opening statement/paragraph, or paraphrase the content to highlight some of the more important elements, asking people for suggestions, nominations, or to forward on to their networks. I defer to your judgment. m/Oppenheim Associates is assisting the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, California in the search for a new Board Member, and we are reaching out to the community for suggestions and nominations. The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content; and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property. Wikipedia contains more than 22 million volunteer-authored articles in over 280 languages and is visited by more than 450 million people monthly. The Wikimedia Foundation provides the technical, operating and managerial infrastructure to sustain and grow Wikimedia’s free knowledge projects. The Foundation supports a global volunteer community of contributors, chapters and readers that contribute ideas, benefit from the support provided by the Foundation, and continually upgrade and evolve Wikimedia's free knowledge projects. The Foundation's goals include
[Wikimedia Brasil] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Patent claim relating to QRpedia
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com Date: 8 February 2013 08:22 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Patent claim relating to QRpedia To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, After the success of Monmouthpedia etc, we decided to try something similar in South Africa - in collaboration with the Heritage department of the City of Johannesburg. After the President of Wikimedia South Africa did a radio interview about the proposed project, our contact in the City got this letter: === Dear Eric, Kindly note that this email is sent without prejudice. It would be greatly appreciated if you would consider the Walk and Talk Tours patented system in 1999 with regards to information signage relating back to electronic media to obtain information in respect of a site. To take this step further I would suggest that Johannesburg Development Agency/ Johannesburg Arts and Culture/ Wikapedia etc consider buying this concept from Walk and Talk Tours CC without the necessity of going through unnecessary legal fees in using the patented concept without the consent of Walk and Talk Tours CC. Kind regards Beryl Porter www.walktours.co.za Tel: +27 11 444 1639 Fax: +27 11 444 6128 Cell: +27 83 269 9769 email: bpor...@iafrica.com === I did some research, and found the relevant patent here: http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/WO2004021309 A brief review of the patent seems to indicate that it doesn't cover anything except for phone calls, but the wording is sufficiently broad that one could construe it to refer to any data sent over a wireless network. Can someone on this list please give an opinion? Thanks, -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com +55 11 97 97 18 884 ___ WikimediaBR-l mailing list WikimediaBR-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabr-l
[Wikimedia Brasil] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] How to set up a SIG?
-- Forwarded message -- From: Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com Date: 8 February 2013 19:25 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] How to set up a SIG? To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: *BTW I'd like to join this Wikipedia club pune of yours along with 3 other brazilians, one of them might be under 18 - I'm not sure. I'd like to join and speak on its behalf please. * You are welcome to join it. and relax - below 18, above 18 is last thing we care. Special thanks for bringing in diversity to Club. Call us older generation, but we prefer facebook for communication : https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaClubPune/ Stay connected via group to get updates about club. :-) More than joining, if you 'like' to like things - then you can join 3767 Club followers - https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune Thank you. I'd now like to speak on behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune. We would officially like to change our language preference to Portuguese, and affirm that Pune is the second bestest place in India, after Delhi. Also We like Cheese! Thank you that is all. Anyway, please look forward to having more brazilian members of your club than pune ones. Some of those would be underage boys and girls, but you are from an older generation of course. :P BTW in case you haven't realized, that was not to ask for membership but point out how important it is to have a resident as a member unless they start speaking for a country or a city they know nothing about. The 18 is the age requirement usually set by the law, and when you decide to officially register your organization as a society, I'll point you to the age requirement law or why parental supervision becomes necessary in some cases. Regards Theo Apparently, Wikipedia Pune Club member ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com +55 11 97 97 18 884 ___ WikimediaBR-l mailing list WikimediaBR-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabr-l
[Wikimedia Brasil] Fwd: WMF busca un miembro para el Board (msg Patricio)
Corrigindo duas coisas: 1) agora, sim, mandando do meu email pessoal e 2) a Fernanda Weiden está agora no Facebook, San Francisco. -- Forwarded message -- From: Oona Castro ocas...@wikimedia.org Date: 9 February 2013 22:00 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Brasil] WMF busca un miembro para el Board (msg Patricio) To: Lista de emails da Wikimedia Brasil. / Brazilian Wikimedia Chapter wikimediabr-l@lists.wikimedia.org Interessante. Mandando de minha conta pessoal alguns nomes de mulheres brasileiras que me vêm à cabeça, caso seja do interesse de vcs avaliar e/ou sugerir interessante. Alguns nomes me vêm à cabeça *Graciela Selaimen *- por seu envolvimento com Governança da Internet e América Latina http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GracielaSelaimen Full name: Graciela Baroni Selaimen Gender: Female Nationality: Brazilian Country of residence: Brazil Organisation: Instituto Nupef Stakeholder group: Civil society Background and/or experience in Internet Governance (50 words): Journalist, specialized in Local Development, with a Masters in Communications an Culture, I've participated actively in the WSIS and IGF processes. At Instituto Nupef I work informing, raising awareness and fostering the participation of civil society actors in ICT policies, collaborating to the strengthening of national and regional political processes focused on Internet Governance and ICTs and Human Rights. *Ana Toni* - relação forte com direitos humanos e muita experiência com grantmaking (foi representante da Fundação Ford no Brasil, mas não é mais) - em tempos em que uma das prioridades é grantmaking... http://br.linkedin.com/pub/ana-toni/8/b31/25a *Lala Deheinzelin* (perspectiva sul global e ativos em tempos de colaboração - uma perspectiva bastante otimista em relação à economia criativa - eu sou menos - mas bem interessante, e consultora da Unesco, mega experiência internacional) - grande fã do movimento wikimedia http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lala_Deheinzelin *Ivana Bentes* (relação com Academia e novas tecnologias - grande capacidade de mobilização de redes) - Assuntos centrais e afiliação intelectual: redes globais, capitalismo cognitivo, Antonio Negri http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Bentes *Carol Rossini* - conhecida de vcs, trabalha atualmente na EFF, grande trajetória com direitos autorais, recursos educacionais abertos etc - foi consultora da WMF *Fernanda Weiden *- não sei se poderia, por trabalhar hoje na Google, acho. Mas é administradora de sistemas e tem liderança no movimento de software livre. http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernanda_G._Weiden On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Vinicius Siqueira vini_...@hotmail.com wrote: Cada uno de los miembros del Board hemos sido entrevistados para tratar de definir prioridades y orientar la búsqueda, y si bien no conozco los detalles de las demás e On 9 February 2013 21:29, Vinicius Siqueira vini_...@hotmail.com wrote: Galera, Encaminho mais uma mensagem do Patricio Lorente enviada à lista do Iberocoop. Dessa vez, sobre a escolha do novo membro do Board. Abs, Vinicius -- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 19:21:42 -0300 From: gali...@gmail.com To: iberoc...@listas.iberocoop.org Subject: [Iberocoop] WMF busca un miembro para el Board -- Forwarded message -- From: *Patricio Lorente* patricio.lore...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:40 AM Subject: Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation - Board Member search To: Galileo Vidoni gali...@gmail.com Galio, por favor, ¿podrías enviar este email a la lista interna de Iberocoop? Abrazo, Patricio Queridos amigos: La Fundación se encuentra a la búsqueda de un nuevo miembro del Board en reemplazo de Matt Halprin, cuyo mandato venció el 31 de diciembre pasado. Como ustedes saben, cuatro de los diez miembros no son electos sino que son seleccionados por el propio Board para complementar los perfiles existentes. Se le ha encargado a una consultora que ya trabajó con la Fundación que hiciera una primer selección. No es un trabajo fácil, ya que se trata de una responsabilidad importante, que demanda tiempo y que es completamente voluntaria. Cada uno de los miembros del Board hemos sido entrevistados para tratar de definir prioridades y orientar la búsqueda, y si bien no conozco los detalles de las demás entrevistas, parece ser que todos hemos coincidido a la hora de considerar la diversidad como un valor en sí para nuestro movimiento y apuntar la búsqueda a un candidato que en lo posible no fuera del mundo angloparlante (aunque el conocimiento del inglés es imprescindible) y aún mejor si fuera del sur del mundo y mujer. Y un compromiso tangible con valores similares (no necesariamente idénticos) a los que nosotros expresamos. El ejemplo de Bishakha para mí es muy importante: no viene del mundo Wikimedia pero tiene impresionantes antecedentes de trabajo con los sectores más postergados de su
