Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the French cultural authorities
David Monniaux said : release lower resolution pictures under free license, keep high resolution pictures (those suitable for art books, posters and so on) proprietary. I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full resolution pictures of Public Domain works. Because this is what the French copyright law is saying. There is no need to negociate anything. There is no need to change a single word from the current French copyright law. Simply have the French government's cultural institutions (museums, archives) recognize that they have been wrong until now, by adding copyright notices on Public Domain works (in France: non-poshumous works whose authors have been dead for more than 70 years). If someone has another opportunity to write an article in Libération or elsewhere, please denounce the copyright notices added by the Musée d'Orsay on a picture like the photograph of Louis Blanc by photographer Etienne Carjat who died in 1906 (1). Please denounce the copyright notice added by Musée Carnavalet on a bidimensional work like the Declaration of Human Rights by Le Barbier (who died in 1826) (2). And don't tell me that a school teacher can use this work at school with a 400x400 px size, like what is available to them through the new agreement signed between the French ministry of Education and authors' representative bodies (3). A teacher needs to show his pupils every details on the picture. Negociating small size pictures could be only a lower level priority concerning truely copyrighted works when the artists are still alive and need money to buy their bread. (1) ©photo musée d'Orsay / rmn on http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?no_cache=1zoom=1tx_damzoom_pi1%5Bzoom%5D=0tx_damzoom_pi1%5BxmlId%5D=064037tx_damzoom_pi1%5Bback%5D=%2Fen%2Fcollections%2Findex-of-works%2Fnotice.html%3Fno_cache%3D1%26nnumid%3D064037%26cHash%3D73f82dabb3 (2) © musée Carnavalet, © direction des musées de France, 2008 Droits photo © musée Carnavalet / Roger-Viollet on http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=CHERCHERFIELD_1=REFVALUE_1=1104384 (3) http://www.education.gouv.fr/cid48874/menj0900756x.html 2009/9/22, Yann Forget y...@forget-me.net: Hello, I think this is worth a larger audience. Yann Original Message Subject: [Commons-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the French cultural authorities Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:51:12 +0200 From: David Monniaux David . Monniaux @ free . fr To: common...@lists.wikimedia.org [...] I proposed a way out: release lower resolution pictures under free license, keep high resolution pictures (those suitable for art books, posters and so on) proprietary. The suggestion has been retained by the commission - even though they still seem to toy with this idea of negotiation. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimedia Staff office hours
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a reminder about today's office hours with Sue Gardner. Just as a note, we're planning alternating the Friday 22:30 UTC office hours with Thursday 16:00 UTC, which is much easier on our European participants. Cary - As a result of the success of the Strategy planning office hours and the recent meet the board presentation on the #wikimedia channel on IRC, we've decided to do regular office hours featuring a Wikimedia Foundation staff member. And to kick things off, this Friday, September 25, 2009, between 15:30 and 16:30 PDT (UTC 22:30 to 23:30), Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director, will be online to answer your questions and talk about her role in the Foundation and plans for the future. The IRC channel that will be hosting Sue's conversation, and all future WMF staff office hours, will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkq9ERgACgkQyQg4JSymDYk2WgCglG8tN6/MFEMRMDjTfeUN4CVi dWIAoMRnLCqxQsaPXVy+BQ93GaRS/ut0 =Lsrp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Report to the Board July 2009
Hi folks, I've been holding up release of this report, waiting on comScore data. It's still pending, so I will just re-release with it, once it's available. Enjoy :-) Thanks, Sue Report to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Covering: July 2009 Prepared by:Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation Prepared for: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees MILESTONES FROM JULY 1. Hiring concluded for the Strategic Planning Project 2. New fiscal year begins 3. First Wikipedia Academy in the United States KEY PRIORITIES FOR AUGUST 1. Prepare for and attend Wikimania 2009 and associated Board of Trustees meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina 2. Beta roll-out of first usability improvements 4. Begin planning process to seek funding for new data center 5. Meetings with donor prospects THIS PAST MONTH STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS During July, two members of the Wikimedia Advisory Board, Wayne Mackintosh and Benjamin Mako Hill, separately visited the office to share their expertise and help influence the strategy planning project. Discussions included possibilities for community support structures, outreach and partnership models as well as sharing of learnings from the free software and open source movements. Several proposals based on these conversations will be posted to the strategic planning project pages. Thomas de Souza Buckup, a Brazilian Wikimedian, also visited the office of the Wikimedia Foundation, and held meetings with staff. Eugene Eric Kim and Philippe Beaudette joined the Wikimedia Foundation staff to fill the Project Manager and Facilitator positions for the Foundation's collaborative strategy development project. Eugene was announced as the Project Manager for the strategy project. Eugene is principal and co-founder of Blue Oxen Associates http://blueoxen.com/, a San Francisco-based socially-conscious consulting firm that focuses on understanding and improving how people collaborate. He's worked at all levels of the collaborative process, from strategy development to facilitation. His past clients have included People for the American Way, NASA, the Institute for International Education, Socialtext, and the Sierra Club. Eugene is also a long-time member of the Wiki community. He is the co-author of PurpleWiki, he spoke at the first Wikimania conference in Frankfurt, he was a keynote speaker at WikiSym 2006, and he was one of the instigators of the first RecentChangesCamp. Philippe Beaudette joined the Wikimeda Foundation as Facilitator for the strategy project. Philippe is a trusted member of the Wikimedia volunteer community. He's a three-year member of the Board of Trustees Election Committee, a two-year trusted administrator for the English Wikipedia, and has twice been granted temporary administrator status for meta for election-related activities. He has also been a volunteer for OTRS, and has helped the Wikimedia Foundation in the development of a grant proposal. Outside Wikimedia, Philippe has a background in American electoral politics, where he has worked as Deputy Campaign Manager, Operations Manager and Technology Director on a number of state and federal campaigns, as well as for the non-profit Progressive Alliance Foundation. He has also worked as a technology consultant in the for-profit sector in the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom. The strategy project also intended to hire a Research Analyst and interviewed a number of candidates, but has since reconsidered that role, and will rededicate those resources to other work in the project. That may possibly include efforts to bring in external expertise of various kinds, and/or to bring in the perspectives of developing countries. Eugene and Philippe started working on the strategic planning process in mid July. They've been working closely with Bridgespan and senior Foundation staff on the details of the process. They've also been holding weekly brown bag discussions and IRC office hours. Finally, they launched the strategic planning Wiki http://strategy.wikimedia.org/, and they're encouraging people to submit proposals for what they think the movement should be working on over the next five years. The Bridgespan Group worked throughout July to build the fact base http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fact_base for the strategic planning process, supported by individual Wikimedians and Wikimedia Foundation staff. TECHNOLOGY MediaWiki contract developer Andrew Garrett worked on modernizing the LiquidThreads discussion forum extension and solicited feedback from users and the Usability Initiative team on the user interface. The Foundation hopes to start deploying LiquidThreads in some isolated areas in the next couple of months to get real-world usage feedback; in the long term this should help clear up many of the usability problems with the current discussion page system. Related tech blog post:
Re: [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimedia Staff office hours
Thanks for considering Europeans too. However, isn't something like 1800/1900 UTC not more convenient? (since at 1600 UTC, especially during winter, lots of people will be at work/school?) I guess that also works better for staff, with regards to getting up early ;-) Best, Lodewijk 2009/9/25 Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a reminder about today's office hours with Sue Gardner. Just as a note, we're planning alternating the Friday 22:30 UTC office hours with Thursday 16:00 UTC, which is much easier on our European participants. Cary - As a result of the success of the Strategy planning office hours and the recent meet the board presentation on the #wikimedia channel on IRC, we've decided to do regular office hours featuring a Wikimedia Foundation staff member. And to kick things off, this Friday, September 25, 2009, between 15:30 and 16:30 PDT (UTC 22:30 to 23:30), Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director, will be online to answer your questions and talk about her role in the Foundation and plans for the future. The IRC channel that will be hosting Sue's conversation, and all future WMF staff office hours, will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkq9ERgACgkQyQg4JSymDYk2WgCglG8tN6/MFEMRMDjTfeUN4CVi dWIAoMRnLCqxQsaPXVy+BQ93GaRS/ut0 =Lsrp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimedia Staff office hours
2009/9/25 effe iets anders effeietsand...@gmail.com: Thanks for considering Europeans too. However, isn't something like 1800/1900 UTC not more convenient? (since at 1600 UTC, especially during winter, lots of people will be at work/school?) I guess that also works better for staff, with regards to getting up early ;-) I agree. Early evening is probably the most convenient time, in any time zone. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board July 2009
Thank you, Sue. I always save these to read when I need a pick-me-up, and it's nice to have them out in time for comments to be relevant to this current month's plans. Questions/comments inline. I've been holding up release of this report, waiting on comScore data. That's the least time-critical piece of the reports for me :-) - Do we send supporters such as comScore things like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipostcards ? MILESTONES FROM JULY 1. Hiring concluded for the Strategic Planning Project The strategy project also intended to hire a Research Analyst and interviewed a number of candidates, but has since reconsidered that - Has the perceived need for research changed? - Wasn't there a discussion about possibly expanding that to a more stable research position over time? I'd be interested to see this done scalably through the community, by defining what valuable reseach needs doing and seeding research groups. In the context of Strategic Planning, where are existing expressed priorities/desires of the Foundation published? 3. First Wikipedia Academy in the United States About 100 NIH employees received live presentations and training on Wikimedia mission and culture, as well as editing skills. The event was live-streamed to the entire NIH staff of over 350,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy/NIH_2009 - Has there been any followup? - Is the idea for this sort of program to be organized by WMF in the future, or for local groups of Wikimedians to organize similar efforts? A friend of mine at the Library of Congress is interested in engaging local Wikipedians more in their efforts to contribute to Wikipedia. continuing a first contact with WMF from years ago KEY PRIORITIES FOR AUGUST 5. Meetings with donor prospects Perhaps community groups should be prioritizing meetings with content-donor prospects. This seems to me one of the best arguments for a better-organized [network of] US chapter[s] -- since there are so many valuable archives in the US, and we have a national commitment to the public domain. MediaWiki contract developer Andrew Garrett worked on modernizing the LiquidThreads discussion forum extension and solicited feedback from - Are the recent discussions on f-l about how to improve our use of mailing lists already included in that feedback, or does someone need to bridge that gap? A new 'wmf-deployment' branch was created for MediaWiki which allows - Are there thoughts about a 'mediawiki-non-wikimedia' branch for customizations useful to the millions of smaller MWiki users out there, but not useful to Wikipedia sibs? private offsite mirror hosted by eBart Consulting in Europe. Hooray! Brion attended an Open Educational Research Search Discovery workshop There was an unanswered question there : whether Wikiversity is interested in including overviews of the world's notable educational materials. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#Wikiversity_as_key_OER_site Open Translation Tools Conference: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/open-translation-tools-2009-report/ - What tools are being considered for more serious adoption? - What can people who weren't at the conference do to help? This seems like a major area for improvement and optimization. Philippe and Casey have suggested recently that translation as we currently do it is a real burden for time-sensitive projects such as strategic planning; and as Ariel notes in that post there is a wealth of software out there that could make this much easier for us. The development for the next release called “Babaco” [2] has started. ( I'm starting to love Babaco. ) Frank Schulenburg has also been focusing on building Wikimedia volunteer capacity by launching the Best Practices series on Meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_in_public_outreach In July, Kathrin Jansen began volunteering in the San Francisco office This is *fantastic*, and needs more public visibility. Perhaps even a site notice at some reasonable milestone. (As does [[m:public outreach]] in general. ) This sort of investment of energy into building our community capacity is one of the greatest things we can do. The Wikimedia Foundation approved 21 funding requests from 11 chapters, in the pilot year of the chapters funding request process. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/WMF_grants I'd be interested to see discussions by individuals with similar requests. Including those who are pursuing supporting grants from outside bodies. That set of ideas, some of which may not have been submitted to the strategy process, are quite valuable. During July, the Wikimedia Foundation participated in interviews with [...] I appreciate these roundups. Something similar for potential supporters or partners who have been met or spoken to -- at least where that information is sharable public knowledge -- would also be lovely. LEGAL Mike
Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board July 2009
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: MILESTONES FROM JULY 1. Hiring concluded for the Strategic Planning Project The strategy project also intended to hire a Research Analyst and interviewed a number of candidates, but has since reconsidered that - Has the perceived need for research changed? No. - Wasn't there a discussion about possibly expanding that to a more stable research position over time? Yes. I'd be interested to see this done scalably through the community, by defining what valuable reseach needs doing and seeding research groups. Me too. And I think the strategic planning process would make a great testbed. I think the research needs have been fairly well captured on the strategy wiki, and I would love to see folks self-organize to help fill in the gaps. =Eugene -- == Eugene Eric Kim http://xri.net/=eekim Blue Oxen Associates http://www.blueoxen.com/ == ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l