[Foundation-l] 2011 Wikimedia annual fundraiser - Soft Launch

*Apologies for cross posting* Hi everyone - We are quickly approaching the launch of the 2011 Wikimedia annual fundraiser. These past few months have been critical to ramp up our operation in preparation of the year-end campaign. Here is where we are at now: Starting Monday November 7, we would

Re: [Foundation-l] Seat and Donations (SPLIT from: EFF & Bitcoins)

What he said :) Seddon On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Dan Rosenthal wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > > > It seems to me like you're characterizing Matt-joining-the-board as > > problematic, while at the same time saying Matt himself is a good > > board member. That

[Foundation-l] Seat and Donations (SPLIT from: EFF & Bitcoins)

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > On 6/22/2011 10:14 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > > Michael Snow wrote: > >> I thought it was reasonably understandable, even without perfect > >> grammar, that Ting was saying that since Matt is no longer at Omidyar, > >> if your insinuation were tru

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

I am going to be quite frank and say that it is pointless to have this discussion on this list. Only a fraction of the english wikipedia community are on it. If you are genuinely serious about this then propose it on the english wikipedia. This is not a foundation level issue nor will it ever becom

Re: [Foundation-l] Opening of Wikimania 2012 bidding

And all the links are wrong so make sure you go to the 2012 . Silly html. Seddon On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Joseph Seddon wrote: > Correction Haifa, Israel :) > > Seddon > > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Joseph Seddon wrote: > >> The early timeline means t

Re: [Foundation-l] Opening of Wikimania 2012 bidding

Correction Haifa, Israel :) Seddon On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Joseph Seddon wrote: > The early timeline means that (if followed) hopefully representatives > of the winning bid will be able to attend this year's Wikimania in > Gdansk, which is very helpful

[Foundation-l] Opening of Wikimania 2012 bidding

the private jury mailing list. All private communications with the jury are confidential. best regards, and good luck -- Joseph Seddon Wikimania 2012 jury moderator (non-voting) on behalf of the 2012 jury:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Jury <http:

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2012 Jury selection

. * If you are going to be contributing in a large part to a bid for 2012, you are not advised to put your name forth for conflict of interest reasons. If you wish to be involved in the Jury, please email me at josephsed...@gmail.com Many Thanks Joseph Seddon Wikimania 2012 Bidding Coord

[Foundation-l] Wikimania Committee

Following on from the various emails that have gone around with regards to the creation of a Wikimania Committee I have created a placeholder page on meta and have gotten the discussion going on its talk page which can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_Committee Much

[Foundation-l] Britain Loves Wikipedia - Logo

imedia.org/wiki/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia/Logo_submissions Thanks! Joseph Seddon Wikimedia UK _ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/1950

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising banners

the banner content, this fundraiser > > appears to be (by a wide margin) the most successful in Wikimedia's > > history. > > > > :D > > -- > Casey Brown > Cbrown1023 Not before the foundation wastes another $250,000 to get

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

Just to look at this from another angle, what reasoning was there to limit the geographical extent of the new york chapter to the new york city metropolitan area. Why not the entire state of new york? Does having this NYC chapter prevent the existence of a chapter representing the whole state o