Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Jennifer Riggs leaves Wikimedia

2009-09-17 Thread Samuel Klein
Thank you for this announcement, though I am sorry to hear it. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > Here's an example: As you know, we have long wanted to create a > program making grants to volunteers -- both to chapters and individual > Wikimedians.  Erik and I launched the ch

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:22 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/9/17 Michael Peel : > >> This doesn't seem quite right to me. "average" donors may financially >> be worth less in each donation, but remember that there's a lot more >> of them, and they're more likely to give repeat donations. Also, >>

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Office Move

2009-09-17 Thread Samuel Klein
I'm sure Erik has been dying for the chance to run multilingual rcbirds in a corner with some custom west-coast birdcalls On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > and, in terms of data displays I've always been a fan of WikipediaVision > http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html and

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/17 Michael Peel : > This doesn't seem quite right to me. "average" donors may financially > be worth less in each donation, but remember that there's a lot more > of them, and they're more likely to give repeat donations. Also, > there's more to "worth" than just financial, e.g. in good wil

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Sue Gardner
2009/9/17 Frieda Brioschi : > 2009/9/16 Mike Godwin : >> We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating in >> Italy. > > How many originating from Wikimedia Italia? > >> I'd like to see any official complaints that have been filed in Italian >> courts (or elsewhere) again

Re: [Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

2009-09-17 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/15 Domas Mituzas : > This is entirely off-topic, and could be continued in wikitech-l, if > you're really eager to tell how you modify compressed files "in > place". ;-) You can decode bzipped files an arbitrary block at a time (which makes reader apps surprisingly viable on devices with

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Frieda Brioschi
2009/9/17 Everton Zanella Alvarenga : > Ciao, > I'd like also to have a copy. Can you put it online? Would you > infringe some law if you put in Wikisource? > If it's not possible to put online, please, send to my email. Sorry, I can't publish it. But tomorrow morning (now it's 10 pm in Italy) I'l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Ciao, 2009/9/17 Frieda Brioschi : > I'll forward to you a copy of the document in few minutes. It's in > italian. Is it ok for you? I'd like also to have a copy. Can you put it online? Would you infringe some law if you put in Wikisource? If it's not possible to put online, please, send to my e

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Frieda Brioschi
2009/9/17 Mike Godwin : >> How many originating from Wikimedia Italia? > > Not many, and perhaps not any -- in general the spurious threat is against > WMF itself, so far as I can recall. As far as I remember we asked WMF help just once, few months ago. There were nothing in the news at that momen

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Mike Godwin
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Frieda Brioschi wrote: > 2009/9/16 Mike Godwin : > > We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating > in > > Italy. > > How many originating from Wikimedia Italia? > Not many, and perhaps not any -- in general the spurious threat is aga

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

2009-09-17 Thread Frieda Brioschi
2009/9/16 Mike Godwin : > We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating in > Italy. How many originating from Wikimedia Italia? > I'd like to see any official complaints that have been filed in Italian > courts (or elsewhere) against Wikimedia Italia. I'll forward to

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/17 Michael Peel : > > On 17 Sep 2009, at 17:22, Gregory Kohs wrote: > >> They are a key constituency in >> supporting the financial stream, as every single one of them is >> worth 16 or >> more "average" donors. > > This doesn't seem quite right to me. "average" donors may financially > be w

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread Michael Peel
On 17 Sep 2009, at 17:22, Gregory Kohs wrote: > They are a key constituency in > supporting the financial stream, as every single one of them is > worth 16 or > more "average" donors. This doesn't seem quite right to me. "average" donors may financially be worth less in each donation, but re

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Jennifer Riggs leaves Wikimedia

2009-09-17 Thread Nathan
Thanks Sue. You mention a sort of re-envisioning process for the Chief Program Officer role - can you give us an idea of the challenges that you and Jennifer encountered with the current concept of a CPO, and what types of changes you might consider making? Nathan

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread Gregory Kohs
Congratulations to Anya, and it sounds like Rand made a nice choice. Anya, if you wish to continue receiving my assistance on the 2009 Fundraising Survey that I helped design, I hope that Rand will put you in touch with me during the data analysis phase. I think a key "break-out" for analysis wil

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Jennifer Riggs leaves Wikimedia

2009-09-17 Thread Sue Gardner
Thanks Thomas; we're sorry about it too. The real problem won't be so much "who will take over the work" -- Jennifer had only been on the job about five months, so she was mostly in building/thinking/planning mode rather than executing mode. So the real problem will be a hit to our ability to p

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Jennifer Riggs leaves Wikimedia

2009-09-17 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/17 Sue Gardner : > However, Jennifer and I have agreed that despite those contributions, > she ultimately will not be a good fit for the Chief Program Officer > role.  That doesn't mean her path will never cross ours again, and > it's not a decision intended to reflect badly on her skills or

[Foundation-l] EN Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 36 Number: 117

2009-09-17 Thread EN Wikizine
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