2009/10/19 Andrew Turvey :
> The 2009 Annual Wikimedia Fundraiser is just round the corner and we need to
> crystallize the list of items that we will use our income for so that we can
> encourage people to donate.
>
> I've done a first draft at
> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2009_Winter_Fundrai
I was at the Aus GLAM wiki event and foubd the Wikimedia aus people
stimulating and and an egageing.
I joined this list hoping for more of the same. Especially as the
whole way in which wikimedia can engage with big new debates on open
acceess , public space , public private etc is up for bebate ,
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:08 PM, geni wrote:
> Can you get him to meet some famous musicians? Childhood TV stars
> perhaps? No? Your opinion means approx diddly squat then.
I was under no illusions that Peter Mandelson would drop to his knees
and suck my cock for making hitherto unthought of ide
2009/10/20 Bod Notbod :
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Brian McNeil
> wrote:
>
> Joking aside, I think that if I had a moment alone with Peter
> Mandelson and could curb my violent impulses for five minutes, I'd put
> it to him that cutting off someone's internet for illegal downloading
> is a
2009/10/20 Brian McNeil :
> What is, actually, conspicuously absent from the discussion is whether
> anyone has a *right* to make a profit on these creative works. Copyright
> is a social contract; society grants a work's creator(s) a limited
> duration monopoly to allow them the *opportunity* to m
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 18:16 +0100, Bod Notbod wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Brian McNeil
> wrote:
> > Arstechnica has a good article relating to this today. Those
> > well-entrenched and profiting from creative works have a 100+ year
> > history of scaremongering and depriving the p
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Brian McNeil
wrote:
Joking aside, I think that if I had a moment alone with Peter
Mandelson and could curb my violent impulses for five minutes, I'd put
it to him that cutting off someone's internet for illegal downloading
is a punishment liable to be suffered as
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 16:30 +0100, Bod Notbod wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Andrew Turvey
> wrote:
>
>
> > Peter Mandelson is a keynote speaker, which could be an important
> > opportunity to put the case for public
> > domain to a key decision maker.
> >
> > My question: what shou
2009/10/20 Bod Notbod :
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Michael Peel wrote:
>
>> ... or perhaps not. Wikimedia UK is a peaceful organization, as is
>> Wikimedia as a whole, and I'm sure that none of our members would
>> ever seriously consider doing anything like this.
>
> The North Korean Chap
On 20 Oct 2009, at 14:45, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/10/20 Michael Peel :
>> I'm not aware of a way to record a Skype conference without requiring
>> an external device (i.e. recording the signal to the speaker, rather
>> than digitally within the computer); if anyone knows a way to do
>> this,
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Michael Peel wrote:
> ... or perhaps not. Wikimedia UK is a peaceful organization, as is
> Wikimedia as a whole, and I'm sure that none of our members would
> ever seriously consider doing anything like this.
The North Korean Chapter has nukes.
We're way behind
2009/10/20 Michael Peel :
> ... or perhaps not. Wikimedia UK is a peaceful organization, as is
> Wikimedia as a whole, and I'm sure that none of our members would
> ever seriously consider doing anything like this.
No, hopefully not, but what Bod said was pretty funny (to me at least!)
--
Regard
... or perhaps not. Wikimedia UK is a peaceful organization, as is
Wikimedia as a whole, and I'm sure that none of our members would
ever seriously consider doing anything like this.
Mike
On 20 Oct 2009, at 16:30, Bod Notbod wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Andrew Turvey
> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Andrew Turvey
wrote:
> Peter Mandelson is a keynote speaker, which could be an important opportunity
> to put the case for public
> domain to a key decision maker.
>
> My question: what should I focus on at this conference and what should I aim
> to get out of
2009/10/20 Michael Peel :
> I'm not aware of a way to record a Skype conference without requiring
> an external device (i.e. recording the signal to the speaker, rather
> than digitally within the computer); if anyone knows a way to do
> this, then the meetings should definitely be recorded. It rem
On 20 Oct 2009, at 14:25, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/10/20 Michael Peel :
>> That technical limitation. :-) Also, there are concerns about the
>> required connection speed for hosting a multi-way conference like
>> this (as I understand it, the calls are all routed through the host
>> computer),
2009/10/20 Michael Peel :
> That technical limitation. :-) Also, there are concerns about the
> required connection speed for hosting a multi-way conference like
> this (as I understand it, the calls are all routed through the host
> computer), and also the quality of the connections (I believe thi
On 20 Oct 2009, at 12:28, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/10/20 Thomas Dalton :
>> 2009/10/20 Michael Peel :
>>> The first hour of the meeting, 8.30-9.30pm, will be held by Skype
>>> conference. This part of the meeting will be discussions, not
>>> decisions, and will essentially be focused on making
2009/10/20 Thomas Dalton :
> 2009/10/20 Michael Peel :
>> The first hour of the meeting, 8.30-9.30pm, will be held by Skype
>> conference. This part of the meeting will be discussions, not
>> decisions, and will essentially be focused on making sure that all of
>> the board members are on the same
2009/10/20 Michael Peel :
> The first hour of the meeting, 8.30-9.30pm, will be held by Skype
> conference. This part of the meeting will be discussions, not
> decisions, and will essentially be focused on making sure that all of
> the board members are on the same page, and to identify issues that
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening: Tuesday 20 October 2009,
8.30-10.30pm BST.
The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-10-20/Agenda
Following from a conversation at the in-person board meeting, we'll
be trying something different this meeting to try to optimiz
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