[Wikimediauk-l] Parliamentary edits (yet again)

2009-04-01 Thread Andrew Gray
I spotted this today - "Somewhat less excitingly: Stephen O'Brien, an MP with far too much time on his hands, had been asking Parliamentary Questions about whether government department staff have edited Wikipedia ..." http://news.ansible.co.uk/a261.html Huh, I thought. Interesting. It turns out

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Becoming a Board member

2009-04-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/4/1 AndrewRT : > One aspect which might be putting people off is the frequency and > length of the Board meetings we've been having to date. The initial > Board has met 23 times so far (nearly once per week on average) often > for 3 hours or more. Whilst this is probably necessary when we're >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Becoming a Board member

2009-04-01 Thread James Farrar
2009/4/1 AndrewRT : > One aspect which might be putting people off is the frequency and > length of the Board meetings we've been having to date. The initial > Board has met 23 times so far (nearly once per week on average) often > for 3 hours or more. Whilst this is probably necessary when we're

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Becoming a Board member

2009-04-01 Thread Ian A. Holton
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:50 PM, AndrewRT wrote: [...] > One aspect which might be putting people off is the frequency and > length of the Board meetings we've been having to date. The initial > Board has met 23 times so far (nearly once per week on average) often > for 3 hours or more. Whilst this

[Wikimediauk-l] Becoming a Board member

2009-04-01 Thread AndrewRT
We had a chat at the Board meeting last night and there was a bit of nervousness at the fewness of people who have expressed an interest in standing for the Board. The applications are going straight to the tellers so the current Board members won't actually know who's applied until they're anounce