Hi Daniel et al.! First, let me thank you for your detailed reply.
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>wrote: > To clarify my position in this: I'm Wikimedia germany's tech guy [and Pavel > is ED] Understood. > Gerald A wrote: > > DE/EU, does it have to be managed, does it have to be a single server?) > I'm > > just looking at what might be possible. > > It doesn't matter where the server is located. WMDE offers to reimburse the > person paying for the server. We will not assume any responsibility for its > operation, or the projects running on it, or the content on the machine. > Ok, fair enough. I did go through the page on Meta, and there was a reference to "don't commit beyond 3 months". Is this an experiment for 3 months, or is it to be bit off in quarterly chunks? I just don't want to spend a lot of effort on something that will only have a 3 month lifespan. > > a) Wiki Campus Radio, and experiments with Voice and Voice Products. I > was > involved in a number of Wiki Campus Radio experiments, and facilitated the > > sessions and the raw capture of the voice. Other participants edited > them, > > and they were available in various formats to listen to. As the > > hardware/software we were using was on loan, some possibilities for > on-demand > > capture/listening weren't there. > > The money question is, as always: how does wikiversity (or any wikimedia > project) benefit from this project? And how does the project benefit from > the > sandbox server? > Ok, we're moving the ball forward now. :) The "WCR Sessions" had (and will have) a twofold benefit. First, it was a learning project in itself, finding out what needed to be done from a technical perspective, and then putting it together; and the sessions were information sessions, meant to bring together various parts of the learning community. We had participants "call in" worldwide, so from that perspective, I think it was successful. > > As for b), would a "formal report" be required, or would a summary (maybe > > with more details) suffice? How often would be considered "regular"? > > Monthly would be good. No big deal if you miss a month every now and then. > Doesn't need to be formal, just an informative sentence or two. We just > want to > know what's happening. > Ok. I think we're coming up with guidelines, which I'm happy to enforce. In my mind, there will be a monthly report on all projects. Individual projects MUST report in at least every other month, and MAY report every month. If a project doesn't hit it's MUST report, it is temporarily suspended until it is brought up to date. If we have this as part of the signup for a project, we can make it clear that the reporting is part of the project deal and hopefully won't have to run after the contribs too much. > No, please add all projects you are willing to take care of. It doesn't > make > sense to rent a server for a single project anyway. > Agreed. Is there a minimum # you guys are looking to start with? I'm willing to help out, to the limits of my time availability, with a number of projects, but I'd like to see a few others step up and champion projects too. Project "leads" don't have to be technical to start a project and write the "progress" reports -- but they'll need to get someone to commit to helping out on that side. > I would like to have a dedicated contact person for the sandbox server. > This > person should take care that WMDE gets a monthly report about which > projects are > active on the server, which are idle or have died, etc. A sentence or two > per > project is sufficient. Who writes the report, how it is compiled, I don't > care, > I just don#t want to have to deal with 6 people every month about > reporting. > Understood. I think it's best if we have a "primary" contact person (and perhaps an alternate, just so people can go to the bathroom/do a vacation/take a wikibreak). 6 people are too much, and if I were in your shoes it would hurt my head. I still have a few questions that I'd like clarified, but I think I could be the person that moves this forward. Now, we need more projects and project leaders to make this practical. Thanks, Gerald.
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