Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

2009-09-13 Thread Brianna Laugher
2009/9/13 Henning Schlottmann h.schlottm...@gmx.net: This whole issue is one of information processing. Everyone has to learn how to deal with information in large amounts and on different media. But there have been a few generations of experience we can plug in, there are best practices and

[Foundation-l] RegioWikiCamp - September 25-27, Germany

2009-08-31 Thread Brianna Laugher
Hi, I just heard about an unconference event called RegioWikiCamp. I imagine it will be of interest to lots of folks living near Germany (if you are not all conferenced out after Wikimania!). http://wiki.regiowiki.eu/RegioWikiCamp_2009 It will be from September 25th to 27th. The event is

Re: [Foundation-l] moderate this list

2009-08-29 Thread Brianna Laugher
2009/8/29 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: If you'd like to start a moderated foundation-l, in addition to the regular foundation-l, that might be useful.  But it's considerably inappropriate for you to sign up for a mailing list that many of us have been enjoying for years and in one month decide

Re: [Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report

2009-08-12 Thread Brianna Laugher
Thanks for your report Tim. A minor correction, 2009/8/12 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Liam has a point when he suggests that we typically do not need the highest resolutions to illustrate our Wikipedias http://wikipedia.org/. But I really like the idea of Brianna where we

[Foundation-l] UNESCO Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace

2009-08-02 Thread Brianna Laugher
Hi, I just found out from the Open Source Business Report (http://www.osbr.ca/) that UNESCO has published a report called Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace. It's licensed CC-BY-NC-SA and available for download:

[Foundation-l] Any Wikimedians going to the Free Culture Forum?

2009-08-01 Thread Brianna Laugher
Hi, Are there any Wikimedians who know anything about this? http://fcforum.net/ Barcelona, October 29 - November 1 2009. It might be something for some of the European chapters in particular to be involved with. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:

Re: [Foundation-l] linux.conf.au Call for Papers are now open

2009-07-26 Thread Brianna Laugher
-papers mailing list lca10-pap...@lists.penguinsvisiting.org.nz http://lists.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/lca10-papers_lists.penguinsvisiting.org.nz 2009/7/19 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com: Hi all, I would not normally forward an open source conference CFP to this list, but I

[Foundation-l] Fwd: linux.conf.au Call for Papers are now open

2009-07-18 Thread Brianna Laugher
Hi all, I would not normally forward an open source conference CFP to this list, but I think this case has particular merit. The linux.conf.au 2010 Call for Papers closes this Friday. LCA is a free software technical conference, but one of the topics they are targeting this year is Free Software

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] WMF board election - inspiration for candidates

2009-07-17 Thread Brianna Laugher
Hi, There are just 3 days left for community members to nominate themselves as candidates in the upcoming Board election. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Candidates/en Stu West, who is the Board's Treasurer and has served on the board since April 2008, wrote this piece,

[Foundation-l] Alternating sitenotices is kinda confusing

2009-04-14 Thread Brianna Laugher
Hi, I think having alternating sitenotices (between the licensing vote and the Wikimania CFP/scholarships) is confusing for some people who expect to see a link there for voting. See the comments at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13967 for example. Could we please have both at once, or

Re: [Foundation-l] Alternating sitenotices is kinda confusing

2009-04-14 Thread Brianna Laugher
2009/4/15 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: 2009/4/14 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net: That's okay, my previous reply was a little snarky itself. I don't know that we have a perfect solution, but I think the mixed messages are worth fixing. Agreed, and this is an issue that will occur

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 voting now open

2009-02-16 Thread Brianna Laugher
Hi, I didn't see it announced yet, so here goes - voting for the 2008 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year is now open. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2008 Voting eligibility: all Wikimedians who were registered before 1 January 2009 and with at least 200 edits

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 voting now open

2009-02-16 Thread Brianna Laugher
2009/2/17 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: Hello, I did not even realise it had not been announced and I already voted a few days ago :-) My two cents * great images. Really top stuff * but the voting system... SO unpractical :-( If you voted early, I think the voting system has been

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia IdeaTorrent?

2009-01-28 Thread Brianna Laugher
2009/1/29 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: If you haven't seen it yet, Ubuntu is running an interesting brainstorming software called IdeaTorrent to think collectively about common problems and solutions: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ The software: http://www.ideatorrent.org/ I wonder -