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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiversity-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l >
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