Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Béria Lima
Bishakha, the program (for WCI) is not a problem. Everyone agrees on it. The funding for WMIN and WIPT is. So makes no sense ask us to discuss in a point everyone agrees and left out the one where we don't. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Béria Lima
*The major program initiative undertaken by Hisham's team so far is the India Education Program.* You sure you want to use that as an example of Hishan workhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-11-07/Special_report? Because if was in a for-profit organization things

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Béria Lima
*FYI - The two Fellows are WMIN chapter members and signatories on its bank account.* Thanks but that only make things worse to me. So, the people who are paid by WMF are the ones taking care of WMIN money? Only I see the COI here? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Ray Saintonge
Thank you Liam for using the term, organisational roles, instead of the more pretentious, movement roles. I find the whole thread disturbing. I am and have always been a strong supporter of the autonomy of both projects and chapters, and from that vantage point it is difficult to see this

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
Hey Liam From: Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com I understand what you mean, and agree with the sentiment, but I think the funding question you're referring to is the practical application of the broader issue of organisational roles. What I still don't understand, despite the fast and

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Gautam John
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: FYI - The two Fellows are WMIN chapter members and signatories on its bank account. Ummm, not to the best of my knowledge. They are, by virtue of being organisers of the Wiki Conference India, signatories to the Conference

[Foundation-l] MENA Education Program?

2011-11-12 Thread aude
Erik, Sue, Frank, et al, Can you please say more about the plans for a Middle East education program? (yes I have read notes from the recent trip on outreach wiki) What is the timeframe? Who is going to run it? Will you establish a trust there? Where will the office be? If the program is to

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Abbas Mahmood
Hi Hisham, From: hmun...@wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:00:30 +0530 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia India Program Trust From a practical perspective, I'd say the Trust would have - by virtue of (eventually) having a full-time team - the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi all, This thread has brought up several points of interest to Wikimedia India. First let me take this opportunity to thank the Foundation Grants team for all the help for our bootstrapping work, be it Legal consultant or Documentation for FCRA etc. We have been interacting regularly with India

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, This thread has brought up several points of interest to Wikimedia India. First let me take this opportunity to thank the Foundation Grants team for all the help for our bootstrapping work, be it Legal

Re: [Foundation-l] [Internal-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Lodewijk
(not replying to Liam in particular and apologies for the longer email in advance) Thank you all for this thread. First of all a minor request from someone who's not that familiar with how India and Wikimedia in India exactly is structured: I appreciate it that people tell who they are and what

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2011-11-12 Thread Klaus Graf
Regarding my contrubution http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3APhilippe_%28WMF%29action=historysubmitdiff=62442684oldid=62438353 I beg to know the Aktenzeichen of the court decision Philippe is referring to. This decision is unknown to the German community. German court