Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Alolita Sharma
Ryan, Great news! Alolita On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Platonides wrote: > > Congratulations! > > > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Platonides
Congratulations! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Houle
On 7/19/2011 2:41 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the > Unicode Consortium: > http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblist.html#liais > > Rick McGowan is the Unicode representative to Wikimedia, and I'll be > serving as Wikimedia's respresenta

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the Unicode > Consortium: > http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblist.html#liais \o/ Thanks, Ryan. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the Unicode Consortium: http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblist.html#liais Rick McGowan is the Unicode representative to Wikimedia, and I'll be serving as Wikimedia's respresentative to Unicode until our new localization engineers

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-28 Thread Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson
ald...@wikimedia.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 5:00 PM To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium? BTW, I found out that liaison membership in the Unicode Consortium is free (and doesn't require us to do anything specifically). You j

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-28 Thread Ryan Kaldari
BTW, I found out that liaison membership in the Unicode Consortium is free (and doesn't require us to do anything specifically). You just have to convince them that the membership would be beneficial to both organizations. Since it sounds like no one objects, I'd be happy to go ahead and write

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-27 Thread jidanni
> "AG" == Aryeh Gregor writes: AG> It looks like it would cost $7,900 a year in dues I think that would set a bad precedent for the way you fellows spend your money. Next thing you know people will say you joined A, now why don't you join B, even more worthy, etc. P.S., It is spelled Consortiu

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-27 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > In comparison, we have a couple of folks who keep an eye on some of the W3C > / WHATWG lists that are working on the HTML 5 specifications -- these are > mostly open lists which made it easier for particularly interested > individuals like Ary

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-27 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > I'm not sure who would be in charge of this, but I think it would be > useful if the WMF was a liaison member of the Unicode Constortium: > http://unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html > > This body makes all sorts of important decisions about

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-27 Thread Platonides
Ryan Kaldari wrote: > I'm not sure who would be in charge of this, but I think it would be > useful if the WMF was a liaison member of the Unicode Constortium: > http://unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html > > This body makes all sorts of important decisions about the Unicode > standard—decisions t

[Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-27 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I'm not sure who would be in charge of this, but I think it would be useful if the WMF was a liaison member of the Unicode Constortium: http://unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html This body makes all sorts of important decisions about the Unicode standard—decisions that affects many aspects of o