Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech- and Tools-related IEG proposals

2014-10-10 Thread Željko Filipin
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: OS X isn't available legally as a VM on anything but an OS X machine IIRC. Correct. I have forgot to mention that. What I meant is that I am not sure one can download already prepared Mac OS VMs. Mac OS X

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech- and Tools-related IEG proposals

2014-10-10 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2014-10-10 2:19 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com OS X isn't available legally as a VM on anything but an OS X machine IIRC. Correct. I have forgot to mention that. What I meant is that I am not sure one can download

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech- and Tools-related IEG proposals

2014-10-10 Thread Quim Gil
Brian, I just want to say Thank You for the time you took going through the proposals and writing this insightful email. CCing Siko because, even if you particular comments about certain proposals are interesting, they can be taken as samples, and what really matters are your meta observations.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech- and Tools-related IEG proposals

2014-10-10 Thread Siko Bouterse
Echoing Quim's thanks to you, bawolff! And I really appreciate the comments you've made directly on proposals in past weeks, which does help them improve. Good proposals take time to develop, and I expect that incubating them longer in places like IdeaLab, where they can get more advice to help

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech- and Tools-related IEG proposals

2014-10-10 Thread Pine W
Hi Siko, are you planning to copy the relevant comments to the grant application pages? The Committee will likely want to read them. Pine On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Echoing Quim's thanks to you, bawolff! And I really appreciate the comments

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech- and Tools-related IEG proposals

2014-10-10 Thread Siko Bouterse
I don't think that copying comments made on a mailing list over to a proposer's page is exactly the right strategy here, Pine - there's a difference between talking *to* and *about* people and I see that bawolff has done a lovely job of doing some of each, using both channels. But if your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech- and Tools-related IEG proposals

2014-10-10 Thread Pine W
OK thanks. Pine On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: I don't think that copying comments made on a mailing list over to a proposer's page is exactly the right strategy here, Pine - there's a difference between talking *to* and *about* people and I see

[Wikitech-l] Tech- and Tools-related IEG proposals

2014-10-09 Thread Patrick Earley
*(cross-posted to wikimedia-l)* Hello all, For our second round of Individual Engagement Grant applications in 2014, we have a great crop of ideas. Wikimedians have dropped by to offer feedback, support, or expertise to some of the proposals, but many proposals have not been reviewed by

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech- and Tools-related IEG proposals

2014-10-09 Thread Brian Wolff
On 10/10/14, Patrick Earley pear...@wikimedia.org wrote: *(cross-posted to wikimedia-l)* Hello all, For our second round of Individual Engagement Grant applications in 2014, we have a great crop of ideas. Wikimedians have dropped by to offer feedback, support, or expertise to some of the