Hello, I'm but a simple member of Wikimedia France, but I trust the Post Scriptum by Nadine was clear on the matter : "no other cryptocurrency donations project is planned". And yes, I believe that includes Foldingcoin. Personally, I'm fond of Folding@Home, I've even given more than my fair share of processing time to the project some time ago ; but I don't need to receive hard cash in return - especially when it's neither hard nor cash. Whether you like it or not, it does waste electricity when an alternative exists : the old way of having people pay dimes for a wee bit of electricity to calculate protein folding instead of the new way of performing copious calculations for the blockchain and a few cheap protein foldings on the side. It doesn't matter what the end goal is, even as laudable as F@H : a blockchain is and always will be calculation-expensive, thus a waste of electricity, by its very design. And Foldingcoin still relies on it. Please don't be "that guy", and stick to F@H rather than push for FLDC.
Roger / Alphos 2018-05-28 17:23 GMT+02:00 James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com>: > Hi Nadine, thank you for this update. > > Does the French Chapter have a position on replacing bitcoin mining > with foldingcoin (http://foldingcoin.net)? I hope that all Wikimedians > will oppose the wasteful consumption of electricity when useful > alternatives exist. > > Best regards, > Jim > > On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Nadine Le Lirzin > <nlelir...@wikimedia.fr> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Update on the topic. > > > > Since Request Network were so slow and reluctant to change their delusive > > communication into a fair and clean information, Wikimédia France broke > the > > agreement with them. Thus, this partnership is over. > > > > We deleted our blog post about it. And we keep on trying to obtain the > same > > from Request Network (who are turning a deaf ear until now). > > > > Once again, sorry for the noise and thanks for alerting us, > > > > Nadine Le Lirzin > > *Secrétaire du conseil d'administration* > > *Wikimédia France* > > > > *Post-scriptum:* no other cryptocurrency donations project is planned ^^' > > > > > > > > > > > > 2018-04-28 17:12 GMT+02:00 Nadine Le Lirzin <nlelir...@wikimedia.fr>: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> First of all, thanks for reporting the issue. Impressive reactivity :) > >> > >> Then, sorry for the intempestive and unwelcome communication about this > >> local partnership. The agreement is quite clear, it has been > established by > >> Wikimédia France (of course *not* in name of Wikimedia Foundation) and > >> our partners are obviously *not allowed* to use any of Wikimedia > projects > >> marks. > >> > >> Today, Request Network updated their posts to clarify things and > >> suppressed Wikipedia logo from their communication messages : > >> — https://www.reddit.com/r/RequestNetwork/comments/8firkq/up > >> date_to_clarify_wikimedia_france_partnership/ > >> — https://blog.request.network/request-network-project- > >> update-april-27th-2018-partnership-with-wikimedia- > >> woocommerce-plugin-c598372e9b58 > >> > >> We updated our blog post as well, with an introductive warning : > >> — https://www.wikimedia.fr/2018/04/27/wikimedia-france-annon > >> ce-partenariat-fondation-request-network-accepter-donations- > >> crypto-monnaies/ > >> > >> After the week-end and labor day (1 May), we are expecting that all > >> occurrences of this misunderstanding have disappeared. > >> > >> > >> Nadine Le Lirzin > >> > >> *Secretary of the Board* > >> *Wikimédia France * > >> > >> > >> > >> 2018-04-27 16:23 GMT+02:00 Devouard (gmail) <fdevou...@gmail.com>: > >> > >>> Definitly confusing. > >>> > >>> See also this : https://blog.request.network/r > >>> equest-network-project-update-april-27th-2018-partnership-wi > >>> th-wikimedia-woocommerce-plugin-c598372e9b58 > >>> > >>> > >>> Florence > >>> > >>> Le 27/04/2018 à 15:49, geni a écrit : > >>> > >>>> According to their twitter feed they have announced a partnership with > >>>> something called the "Request Network" for cryptocurrency donations. > >>>> Also this article here > >>>> > >>>> https://www.wikimedia.fr/2018/04/27/wikimedia-france-annonce > >>>> -partenariat-fondation-request-network-accepter-donations-cr > >>>> ypto-monnaies/ > >>>> > >>>> Ok. I don't approve but I'm not french so not its not an area where I > >>>> can reasonably expect anyone to pay any attention to my opinions. > >>>> > >>>> What concerns me is that they have retweeted something claiming the > >>>> partnership is with the wikimedia foundation rather than just > >>>> wikimedia france: > >>>> > >>>> https://twitter.com/wikimedia_fr?lang=en > >>>> > >>>> Is some form of clarification possible? > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > >>> i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > >>> i/Wikimedia-l > >>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > >> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>