Ah,

thanks for replies Daniel. Now its clear to me.


Juan

2010/1/30 Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>

> Hi Juan
>
> Juan de Vojníkov schrieb:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > If we are talking about billing, I would say that cheapest way is to rent
> a
> > server for one or 2 years. So would it be a problem for WMDE to offer us
> > support for one year?
>
> Can you show me the different offers? How much cheaper would it be to rent
> for 1
> year in advance, or even for 2?
>
> Again, this is for Pavel to decide, but the larget the advance commitment,
> the
> greater the reluctance. I imagine that this would get easier once we see
> the
> project actually taking off. We have, err, mixed experiences with this kind
> of
> thing.
>
> > Also to send a reports every 3 month means the reports
> > will be very simillar.
>
> No problem. The point of the reports is to track activity and progress. We
> are
> liable to our donors, we have to document that we kame good use of the
> money the
> give us.
>
>
> > And one more comment from me. If I analyze conditions: *The server hosts
> only
> >  projects, software, etc. which are for the Wikimedia community - hope
> that
> > WMDE understand, that Wikiversity is a place to host different
> communities of
> >  learners and teachers. It means, there might be group of students from
> > different schools etc. using Wikiversity to fulfill their real life
> education
> >  goals within our projects. So my question would be if these are
> understand
> > as Wikimedia community and if they can also operate on SS?
>
> Heh, more policy questions - I'm the tech guy :P AS far as I understand, it
> would be fine to do anything there that is compatible with the goals and
> mission
> of wikimedia in general and wikiversity specifically. So, I suppose the
> projects
> should revolve about sharing knowledge, i.e. free content and open access.
> But
> they don't have to be limited to the actual wiki community.
>
> basically, this requirement is to make sure that folks don't run a quake
> server
> or a spam relay there. So, how about this:
>
> You come up with a mission statment and general rules for projects, and
> WMDE
> signs off on it.
>
>
> > o Our ideas for the next three months (which extensions, software, etc.
> > should be develop, which software should test, etc.) - this might be hard
> to
> > say, but as I commented before, Wikiversity core community is quite
> small. So
> >  every 3 month the report will be very similar. And if well stay with the
> > original idea that SS is open to all Wikiversity participants in all
> > languages with some core administrators, I think it might be difficult to
> > say, what for example is this or that person planning to deploy next
> month.
>
> Well, it should be possible to come up with a plan. If you don't have any
> idea
> what you want to do, why start? So I suppose you do have some ideas. Just
> write
> them down!
>
> It's not a requirement that you stick to the plan. We just want to know
> what you
> want to do, and what is actually happening. That's all. If the report is
> very
> similar every time - well, I'd hope that there's at least some progress in
> development and deployment, maybe some figures like number of users, of
> tools,
> of page views, etc.
>
> The report doesn't need to be entertaining, boring is fine with us :)
>
> -- daniel
>
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