[Wikimediach-l] Bylaws amended

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Bimmler
I amended the german bylaws on ch.wikimedia.org with the changes from the Assembly (relying on Jürg's protocol and my mermory, please correct me if I made any mistakes) and transferred it also to members wiki. Please translate the changes and update the other language versions. If there are no obje

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws in French

2006-04-24 Thread Patrick Kenel
Bon travail! I've done some proofreading and only corrected some minor errors. In my opinion, your translation is enough in accordance with the original German text. Patrick ___ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipe

[Wikimediach-l] Bylaws in French

2006-04-21 Thread Frederic Schutz
I forgot to mention that I finished a first draft of the bylaws in French last week. There are a few parts that I am not too happy with, but I prefer to wait a little bit (and maybe get some comments) before changing anything. So anyone who speaks French, understand German, or knows the specifi

[Wikimediach-l] Bylaws approved -> Roadmap, Board

2006-04-16 Thread Michael Bimmler
Hello, as our bylaws are now approved officially (notwithstanding the minor (translation/language) changes that might be still needed), we might do some roadmap planning now. IMHO we should now schedule the Founding Assembly quite soon (keyword Wikipedia Day) and on a date that is working fine for

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Bimmler
On 4/15/06, Frederic Schutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Bimmler wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for providing explanations... I must admit of being > quite surprised about some of the content of the English translations; I > am not a specialist of English vocabulary about legal matters, but

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Frederic Schutz
Michael Bimmler wrote: > My proposal: move the "otherwise the committee constitutes > itself" (german: Im übrigen etc.) away from §10.3 to §10.1 (The > committee consists of a president and 4 – 6 further members), there it > fits much better. +1 Frederic _

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Frederic Schutz
Michael Bimmler wrote: Thanks to everyone for providing explanations... I must admit of being quite surprised about some of the content of the English translations; I am not a specialist of English vocabulary about legal matters, but some sentences indeed look strange. > PS: I hope we have not an

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Bimmler
On 4/14/06, Delphine Ménard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/14/06, rupert thurner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i fully agree, i would even give it to some native english speaker > > after the strangenesses are sorted out. i would also agree to change > > it to "board" instead of "comittee", btw

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Delphine Ménard
On 4/14/06, rupert thurner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i fully agree, i would even give it to some native english speaker > after the strangenesses are sorted out. i would also agree to change > it to "board" instead of "comittee", btw :) Well, the English translation is really there for us to lo

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread rupert thurner
i fully agree, i would even give it to some native english speaker after the strangenesses are sorted out. i would also agree to change it to "board" instead of "comittee", btw :) rupert. On 4/14/06, Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/14/06, Frederic Schutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Bimmler
On 4/14/06, Frederic Schutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jürg Studer wrote: > > >>> The minutes are to be made available to the Association members not > >>> more than two months after a decision has been made, otherwise the > >>> committee constitutes itself. > >> I understand the general idea, bu

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread rupert thurner
frederic, you are right, this is somehow broken. and the two completetely independet things: * provide the minutes within 2 months (a long time i thing ...) * decide who does what within the comittee are mixed up in a sentence. i think the whole bylaws is a little broken in this respect. it is a

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-14 Thread Frederic Schutz
Jürg Studer wrote: >>> The minutes are to be made available to the Association members not >>> more than two months after a decision has been made, otherwise the >>> committee constitutes itself. >> I understand the general idea, but my dictionaries do not know any >> meaning of the work "constitu

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-13 Thread Frederic Schutz
I am going forward with the translation of the bylaws in French... first draft is getting there ! I have, however, a question about par. 10.3: > The minutes are to be made available to the Association members not > more than two months after a decision has been made, otherwise the > committee con

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-04-13 Thread Jürg Studer
Am 14.04.2006 um 00:54 schrieb Frederic Schutz: > I am going forward with the translation of the bylaws in French... > first > draft is getting there ! > > I have, however, a question about par. 10.3: > >> The minutes are to be made available to the Association members not >> more than two mont

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-02-27 Thread Michael Bimmler
On 2/27/06, Delphine Ménard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/26/06, Manuel Schneider [Everything Open] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > vote --> I think, Delphine will take care of this request. Angela has > > > subscribed to this ml so in case board would like to make a > > > statement... > > D

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-02-27 Thread Delphine Ménard
On 2/26/06, Manuel Schneider [Everything Open] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > vote --> I think, Delphine will take care of this request. Angela has > > subscribed to this ml so in case board would like to make a > > statement... > Delphine is already informed, I talked to her yesterday. > More info

[Wikimediach-l] bylaws

2006-02-26 Thread florencedevouard
Hi I just read your bylaws (english translation) In the statement of purpose, paragraph 1 refers to open content. Paragraph 4 to free content. There might be a confusion later on about this part. If you want to publish DVD or books, as the german verein is doing, it might be best to avoid using

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-02-26 Thread Manuel Schneider [Everything Open]
> vote --> I think, Delphine will take care of this request. Angela has > subscribed to this ml so in case board would like to make a > statement... Delphine is already informed, I talked to her yesterday. More information about the assembly later... I need some time now to relax. Greets, Manue

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-02-26 Thread Michael Bimmler
On 2/26/06, Ilario Valdelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes ;) > > You should send a formal note and ask (informally) to someone in the > board to take care about the decision (otherwise it could require > time). > Hm, I just sent a mail some days ago to Delphine and she told me that ChapCom

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-02-26 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Yes ;) You should send a formal note and ask (informally) to someone in the board to take care about the decision (otherwise it could require time). Ilario Michael Bimmler wrote: >Question: As we now have the english version of bylaws online, shall >we send a "formal note" to Chapters co

[Wikimediach-l] Bylaws

2006-02-26 Thread Michael Bimmler
Question: As we now have the english version of bylaws online, shall we send a "formal note" to Chapters commitee (chaptercommittee-l AT wikimedia DOT org) to request approval of the bylaws? Are there any objections? -- Regards Michael Bimmler ___ Wikim

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws->Approval->Contract?? (Translations in general)

2006-01-23 Thread Manuel Schneider [Everything Open]
> En: Somehow situation is all but clear here. Manuel somewhen said > something about somebody (have I tried out all "Some..." yet?) whom he > knows and who could translate this. Is this now ongoing? As I told you, I asked a friend who is from Canada and is sometimes working as translator. As she

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws->Approval->Contract??

2006-01-23 Thread Delphine Ménard
On 1/22/06, Robin Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to translate our bylaws but gave up because it's very difficult. > Then I had the idea to get the English version of the German Wikimedia > bylaws since these are widely identical to ours. Then I found out that > the German Wikimedia by

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws->Approval->Contract?? (Translations in general)

2006-01-23 Thread Delphine Ménard
On 1/23/06, Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I especially cc this post to Delphine to somehow "catch her eye" as > there are a few points raised on which she would probably know th > answer) And it did ;-) > Well I can only say what I heard from Delphine quite in the beginning > and

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws->Approval->Contract?? (Translations in general)

2006-01-23 Thread Ilario Valdelli
That Michael says it's correct. Also for Italian Foundation the approvation from Board was required prior the formal notification. Ilario On 1/23/06, Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I especially cc this post to Delphine to somehow "catch her eye" as > there are a few points raised o

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Bylaws->Approval->Contract?? (Translations in general)

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Bimmler
(I especially cc this post to Delphine to somehow "catch her eye" as there are a few points raised on which she would probably know th answer) Well I can only say what I heard from Delphine quite in the beginning and she said (correct me if I am wrong) that bylaws need to be approved by board prio

[Wikimediach-l] Bylaws->Approval->Contract??

2006-01-22 Thread Robin Schwab
Dear all I tried to translate our bylaws but gave up because it's very difficult. Then I had the idea to get the English version of the German Wikimedia bylaws since these are widely identical to ours. Then I found out that the German Wikimedia bylaws only partially exist in English: http://

[Wikimediach-l] Bylaws - Translation

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Bimmler
There we go, the first translated bylaws version here. And the winner is... the "Italy team". Italian translation can be regarded at http://ch.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bylaws/It   and at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/StatutoThanks to Pakeha and Ilario for their great work. Questions to the