Is this discussion taking place on the Wiki somewhere too? 2010/1/31 Juan de Vojníkov <[email protected]>
> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiversity-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +61(0)404561009 skype - leigh_blackall [email protected] http://leighblackall.blogspot.com
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