Ladies and Gentlemen,
As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding
submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not
seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month. Because of the
potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a full and
active election, the election committee has determined that:
- Candidacies will be accepted through July 27th at 23:59 (UTC)
- The period for questioning candidates begins immediately.
Candidates that are "late to the party" will, no doubt, be scrutinized
by the community. The Committee hopes that the community will work to
actively ensure that all candidates receive equivalent questioning.
- The dates of election will not change. The election will begin on
28 July and end on 10 August.
Please know that we recognize the radical nature of altering the
schedule in the midst of the election and would not do it if we did
not absolutely believe that there was a possibility that others may be
interested and qualified and may not have known about the key dates.
For the committee,
Philippe
(in my capacity as a volunteer, and not as an employee of the
Wikimedia Foundation)
Hi folks,
I am delighted to announce that the Facilitator for Wikimedia's
collaborative strategy development project will be Philippe Beaudette.
Many of you know Philippe, who is a trusted member of the Wikimedia
volunteer community. He's a three-year member of the Board of
Trustees Election Committee, a two-year trusted administrator for the
English Wikipedia, and has twice been granted temporary administrator
status for meta for election-related activities. He has also been a
volunteer for OTRS, where he successfully resolved some particularly
difficult complaints regarding biographies of living people. He also
helped the Wikimedia Foundation develop the “media upload” proposal
for the Ford Foundation, which resulted, a few weeks ago, in a USD
300,000 grant for a project aimed at streamlining the process for
uploading media to Wikimedia Commons.
Outside Wikimedia, Philippe has a background in American electoral
politics, where he has worked as Deputy Campaign Manager, Operations
Manager and Technology Director on a number of state and federal
campaigns, as well as for the non-profit Progressive Alliance
Foundation. He has also worked as a technology consultant in the
for-profit sector in the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom.
Philippe brings a number of important skills to the Facilitator role.
He is experienced facilitating discussion on wikis, mailing lists,
IRC, face-to-face and using teleconferences. He has experience
understanding and successfully managing complex stakeholder networks.
And he has managed projects under tight timelines. Most importantly,
he has a good, rich understanding of the mechanisms and systems used
by Wikimedia volunteers to stage discussions, achieve consensus and
make decisions.
Philippe will work from his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and will report
to Eugene Eric Kim, the strategy plan project manager. He will start
July 27.
Philippe will be a terrific addition to the team; I look forward to
working with him. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming him
to the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation. And thanks again to Erik
Moeller and Jennifer Riggs for participating in the hiring interviews.
The strategy plan team will total three people: Project Manager Eugene
Eric Kim, Facilitator Philippe Beaudette, and a to-be-named Research
Analyst. I hope to be in a position to announce the Research Analyst,
within a few weeks.
Thanks,
Sue
--
Sue Gardner
Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation
415 839 6885 office
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Dear all,
New list summaries for the past month:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_June_15-30http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_July_1-15
I swear I'll try to get back on a bi-weekly schedule. Note: If anyone
wants to try their hand at summarizing some of the other lists, there
are lots of low-traffic project lists that could gain a bigger
audience if summarized.
------------------------------------------------
Summary of the summary:
* license changes rolled out across all projects end of June;
* discussions about what Commons and Wikisource should be, as projects;
* two strategic planning hires (and a new open job) announced;
* new grant for Commons, new WMF financial plan and 3 new chapters;
* Wikitech discussions: templates, video codecs and browsers;
* lots of discussion about the NPG and GLAMs issues -- a special
section in this month's summary;
* miscellaneous: new sidebar donation buttons; grammar; Google
translate and image search; Wikipedians are grumpy; new Wikipedia
language; new PhD thesis on WP; WP & NIH workshop; Wikimania & flu;
how do you fully consult the community, anyway?
------------------------------------------------------
-- phoebe
As many of you know, the Foundation has an Audit Committee which
represents the Board in oversight of financial and accounting
issues, including planning, reporting, audits, and internal
controls (see http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_committee
for details). The Committee typically serves for one year,
starting in May/June and ending a year later when the Foundation
files its annual tax return in the U.S. (the IRS Form 990). For
the past year, the committee has consisted of two Board members
(Michael Snow and me as Committee chair) and one long-serving and
incredibly helpful community member, Ad Huikeshoven. We've
recently started forming the 2009-2010 Audit Committee, and the
current team has generously agreed to serve another year.
We are keenly interested in increasing community participation.
The time commitment is modest, as far as Wikimedia goes: review
the Foundation's general financial practices and draft financial
statements/filings, and then participate in three or four
conference calls during the year with the staff and our
independent auditors, KPMG. The one requirement for membership
is "financial literacy", usually some kind of professional
experience with finance, accounting or audit.
If you're interested in serving on the Committee, please email us
at audit-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org and let us know how you think
you could contribute. Thanks.
-s
===========================
Stu West
Wikimedia Foundation
Trustee & Board Treasurer
stu <mailto:stu@wikimedia.org> <at> wikimedia.org
[User:Stu]
It seems like the attribution scheme chosen does not support small
interactive devices and systems very Well. Are there anyone who have
given this any thoughts?
The problem is basically as the chunk of information shrinks the
attribution scheme will be more and more of a problem. With the current
scheme the "paper leaflet" -problem are solved, still what do we do for
cell phones and similar devices? The same problem also arise for
solutions where excerpts from articles are used as tooltips in maps. I
guess there are a lot of other examples.
I would like a fourth point in the text that says something like
"attribution after good practice for devices and systems where the
previous isn't possible".
The current text reads: Attribution: To re-distribute a text page in any
form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink
(where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a
hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy
which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which
provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit
given on this website, or c) a list of all authors.
John
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=== Technical news ===
[Media server problems] - there were some media load problems on all
the sites, which caused "extreme slowness or temporary
inaccessibility". The sysadmins took advantage of this downtime to
redo the way we access media files internally which will help reduce
the impact on the rest of the site when load problems on the file
servers occur, and also spreads out the load among multiple servers to
improve things even more. They had to shut off all uploads for a
while to get this done!
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/intermittent-media-server-load-proble…http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/uploads-temporarily-offline-for-site-…
[Wikipedia Weekly interviews the Usability Team] - Wikipedia Weekly, a
podcast for and by Wikimedians, interviewed the Usability team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode76http://wikipediaweekly.org/2009/07/09/episode-76-usability/
[MediaWiki:Sharedupload change] - MediaWiki:Sharedupload became
MediaWiki:Sharedupload-desc-here. Admins in other projects should
rename the first one to the second in order to customize messages for
images from Commons. (That's the text shown when a Commons image is
shown on another project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doorknob_buddhist_temple_detail_amk.jpg
)
=== Request for help ===
[Translation of the week] -- the Translation of the Week needs help!
If you speak another language and would like to translate "History of
pizza" into your language, TOTW is for you. ;-)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_of_the_week
=== Foundation ===
[Board elections] - the candidate deadline for the elections to the
Board of Trustees has been extended to July 27 due to some technical
issues for which the CentralNotice had to be turned off. The
questioning of the candidates has also begun and translation is ongoing.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Candidates -- candidates
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Candidates/Questions --
questions
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Translation -- translation
[New "Strategic Planning" Staff] - the Foundation announced that they
filled two positions for their Strategic Planning project.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-July/053165.html --
project manager
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-July/053168.html --
facilitator
[National Portrait Gallery] - the English National Portrait Gallery
(NPG) in London (UK) has threatened to sue a U.S. citizen, Derrick
Coetzee. The legal letter followed claims that he had breached the
Gallery's copyright in several thousand photographs of works of art
uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, a free online media repository.
More information in the extremely detailed Wikinews article.
*Update*: The WMF and NPG have entered into good-faith negotiations,
according to Erik Moeller.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/U.K._National_Portrait_Gallery_threatens_U.S._c…http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/16/protecting-the-public-domain-and-shari… -- WMF blog
post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-07-13/Copyri… -- summary by the
signpost
[Academy: NIH] - the Wikimedia Foundation announced and had its first
Wikipedia Academy (outreach event to teach people to become
contributors) in the United States this week.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/NIH_and_WMF_announce_fir… -- press
release
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23nihwiki -- twitter coverage from the event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy/NIH_2009 -- project writeup
[Advisory Board changes] - Angela, chair of the Advisory Board, has
updated the "Advisory Board" page to show that 8 members have left,
bringing the current total to 15 advisory board members.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/?diff=39660
[Fundraising 2008: Post-Mortem] - Rand Montoya, the Foundation's Head
of Community Giving, has posed a post-mortem (basically "what went
wrong, what went right and what can we do better?") on the 2008
Fundraising Drive.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2008#Post_Mortem_for_the_2008_An…
=== Community ===
[Board elections: Inspiration] - some Wikimedians suggested that it
might be better if prospective candidates knew *why* they should run
for board member; what's it really like to be one? Stu West
(appointed member, treasurer) responded and explained why serving on
the Board is rewarding.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-July/053211.html
[wm2009: schedule & flu] - the Wikimania 2009 team posted two updates
this week where they created a draft schedule for the conference on
their wiki and posted a message about swine flu concerns to a few
mailing lists.
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule -- schedule on wiki
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2009-July/001433.html
-- mailing list post (swine flu)
[Open Source Schools] - Wikimedia UK's secretary is presenting a piece
on the subject of "using Wikipedia in schools" at the Open Source
Schools "un"conference in Nottingham (UK) next Monday 20th July. If
you're in the area, it sounds like it'll be interesting! (Conference
admission is 55 pounds.)
http://opensourceschools.org.uk/node/11659 -- presentation
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/lcc-map.pdf -- venue
[Spotlight] - Many projects must have there projects to improve the
quality if an article. The English Wikipedia has there project
"Spotlight". It not a new thing, the started end of 2006. But the
news is that it has lost it {{historical}} - label. The spot is again
on!
http://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Wikipedia:Spotlight
=== Media ===
[Rorschach Test Censorship] - English Wikipedians had an interesting
argument about whether or not to include the Rorschach ink blot tests
in the article on the subject. No, it's not because of licensing, the
files are in the public domain. It's actually about ethics, people
are worried it will ruin the validity of the tests. The Wikipedia
discussion was picked up by blogs/news outlets.
http://blog.heebie.co.uk/interesting-rorschach-test-censorshiphttp://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/14/1829231/Wikipedia-Debates-Rorschach-…
[WikiWars Conference] - the first conference to be held in Bangalore
(India), called WikiWars, invites participation from users, scholars,
academics, practitioners, artists and other cultural workers, to share
their experiences, ideas, experiments, innovations, applications and
stories about Wikipedia.
http://cis-india.org/research/conferences/wikiwars
[NPG Coverage] - the user who was threatened with legal action by the
National Portrait Gallery is keeping a list of media coverage.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee/NPG_legal_threat/Coverage
[WLA/NL] - The Dutch Wiki loves art initiative by Wikimedia Nederland
ended and gained a total of 5447 photos of art objects from 45 museums
photographed by no less than 292 enthusiastic volunteers. In a few
weeks the pictures will become available on Commons, but the pictures
can already be viewed on flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikilovesart/
=== Stats ===
[en.wp] - Erik Zachte, Wikimedia status guru and owner of
infodisiac.com, has published new wikistats data for the English
Wikipedia for the first time since October 2006. This also allows
publication of much wanted totals for all wikipedias combined, and
trend forecasts.
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/new-statistics-for-the-english-wikipedia/
-- blog post #1
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/new-statistics-for-the-english-wikipedia…
-- blog post #2 (in-depth technical post)
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm -- new tables
(click "charts" on the upper right to see pictures too)
[sv.wp biographies] - LA2 posted some research on the breakdown of
articles on the Swedish Wikipedia. The Wikipedians found out that
26.6% of articles are biographies and that the overall ratio of
biographies is 1 woman to 4 men (but that ratio gets worse as you go
back in time).
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-July/044149.html
-- mailing list post
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LA2-gender-age.png -- gender
vs. age graph
=== Other news ===
[New Book] - a new freely licensed book has been launched about wikis
in the workplace.
http://WikiWhileYouWork.com
[LSS: foundation-l] - two new list summaries for the foundation-l
posts have been posted, covering the second half of June and the first
half of July.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_June_15-30http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_July_1-15
=== Did you know ... ===
... that there is an easy solution to Wikipedia's vandalism problems?
According to one humorous website, "ALL WE NEED TO DO is direct our
vandalism entirely to the article about chickens. Imagine a Wikipedia
free of vandalism!"
http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/
Note: that is a humorous website. It does not mean you are allowed to
... with Wikipdia's chickens.
=== Quote ===
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about
something." - Thomas H. Huxley
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=== Technical news ===
[Media server problems] - there were some media load problems on all
the sites, which caused "extreme slowness or temporary
inaccessibility". The sysadmins took advantage of this downtime to
redo the way we access media files internally which will help reduce
the impact on the rest of the site when load problems on the file
servers occur, and also spreads out the load among multiple servers to
improve things even more. They had to shut off all uploads for a
while to get this done!
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/intermittent-media-server-load-proble…http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/uploads-temporarily-offline-for-site-…
[Wikipedia Weekly interviews the Usability Team] - Wikipedia Weekly, a
podcast for and by Wikimedians, interviewed the Usability team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode76http://wikipediaweekly.org/2009/07/09/episode-76-usability/
[MediaWiki:Sharedupload change] - MediaWiki:Sharedupload became
MediaWiki:Sharedupload-desc-here. Admins in other projects should
rename the first one to the second in order to customize messages for
images from Commons. (That's the text shown when a Commons image is
shown on another project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doorknob_buddhist_temple_detail_amk.jpg
)
=== Request for help ===
[Translation of the week] -- the Translation of the Week needs help!
If you speak another language and would like to translate "History of
pizza" into your language, TOTW is for you. ;-)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_of_the_week
=== Foundation ===
[Board elections] - the candidate deadline for the elections to the
Board of Trustees has been extended to July 27 due to some technical
issues for which the CentralNotice had to be turned off. The
questioning of the candidates has also begun and translation is ongoing.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Candidates -- candidates
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Candidates/Questions --
questions
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Translation -- translation
[New "Strategic Planning" Staff] - the Foundation announced that they
filled two positions for their Strategic Planning project.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-July/053165.html --
project manager
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-July/053168.html --
facilitator
[National Portrait Gallery] - the English National Portrait Gallery
(NPG) in London (UK) has threatened to sue a U.S. citizen, Derrick
Coetzee. The legal letter followed claims that he had breached the
Gallery's copyright in several thousand photographs of works of art
uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, a free online media repository.
More information in the extremely detailed Wikinews article.
*Update*: The WMF and NPG have entered into good-faith negotiations,
according to Erik Moeller.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/U.K._National_Portrait_Gallery_threatens_U.S._c…http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/16/protecting-the-public-domain-and-shari… -- WMF blog
post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-07-13/Copyri… -- summary by the
signpost
[Academy: NIH] - the Wikimedia Foundation announced and had its first
Wikipedia Academy (outreach event to teach people to become
contributors) in the United States this week.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/NIH_and_WMF_announce_fir… -- press
release
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23nihwiki -- twitter coverage from the event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy/NIH_2009 -- project writeup
[Advisory Board changes] - Angela, chair of the Advisory Board, has
updated the "Advisory Board" page to show that 8 members have left,
bringing the current total to 15 advisory board members.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/?diff=39660
[Fundraising 2008: Post-Mortem] - Rand Montoya, the Foundation's Head
of Community Giving, has posed a post-mortem (basically "what went
wrong, what went right and what can we do better?") on the 2008
Fundraising Drive.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2008#Post_Mortem_for_the_2008_An…
=== Community ===
[Board elections: Inspiration] - some Wikimedians suggested that it
might be better if prospective candidates knew *why* they should run
for board member; what's it really like to be one? Stu West
(appointed member, treasurer) responded and explained why serving on
the Board is rewarding.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-July/053211.html
[wm2009: schedule & flu] - the Wikimania 2009 team posted two updates
this week where they created a draft schedule for the conference on
their wiki and posted a message about swine flu concerns to a few
mailing lists.
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule -- schedule on wiki
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2009-July/001433.html
-- mailing list post (swine flu)
[Open Source Schools] - Wikimedia UK's secretary is presenting a piece
on the subject of "using Wikipedia in schools" at the Open Source
Schools "un"conference in Nottingham (UK) next Monday 20th July. If
you're in the area, it sounds like it'll be interesting! (Conference
admission is 55 pounds.)
http://opensourceschools.org.uk/node/11659 -- presentation
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/lcc-map.pdf -- venue
[Spotlight] - Many projects must have there projects to improve the
quality if an article. The English Wikipedia has there project
"Spotlight". It not a new thing, the started end of 2006. But the
news is that it has lost it {{historical}} - label. The spot is again
on!
http://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Wikipedia:Spotlight
=== Media ===
[Rorschach Test Censorship] - English Wikipedians had an interesting
argument about whether or not to include the Rorschach ink blot tests
in the article on the subject. No, it's not because of licensing, the
files are in the public domain. It's actually about ethics, people
are worried it will ruin the validity of the tests. The Wikipedia
discussion was picked up by blogs/news outlets.
http://blog.heebie.co.uk/interesting-rorschach-test-censorshiphttp://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/14/1829231/Wikipedia-Debates-Rorschach-…
[WikiWars Conference] - the first conference to be held in Bangalore
(India), called WikiWars, invites participation from users, scholars,
academics, practitioners, artists and other cultural workers, to share
their experiences, ideas, experiments, innovations, applications and
stories about Wikipedia.
http://cis-india.org/research/conferences/wikiwars
[NPG Coverage] - the user who was threatened with legal action by the
National Portrait Gallery is keeping a list of media coverage.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee/NPG_legal_threat/Coverage
[WLA/NL] - The Dutch Wiki loves art initiative by Wikimedia Nederland
ended and gained a total of 5447 photos of art objects from 45 museums
photographed by no less than 292 enthusiastic volunteers. In a few
weeks the pictures will become available on Commons, but the pictures
can already be viewed on flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikilovesart/
=== Stats ===
[en.wp] - Erik Zachte, Wikimedia status guru and owner of
infodisiac.com, has published new wikistats data for the English
Wikipedia for the first time since October 2006. This also allows
publication of much wanted totals for all wikipedias combined, and
trend forecasts.
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/new-statistics-for-the-english-wikipedia/
-- blog post #1
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/new-statistics-for-the-english-wikipedia…
-- blog post #2 (in-depth technical post)
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm -- new tables
(click "charts" on the upper right to see pictures too)
[sv.wp biographies] - LA2 posted some research on the breakdown of
articles on the Swedish Wikipedia. The Wikipedians found out that
26.6% of articles are biographies and that the overall ratio of
biographies is 1 woman to 4 men (but that ratio gets worse as you go
back in time).
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-July/044149.html
-- mailing list post
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LA2-gender-age.png -- gender
vs. age graph
=== Other news ===
[New Book] - a new freely licensed book has been launched about wikis
in the workplace.
http://WikiWhileYouWork.com
[LSS: foundation-l] - two new list summaries for the foundation-l
posts have been posted, covering the second half of June and the first
half of July.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_June_15-30http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_July_1-15
=== Did you know ... ===
... that there is an easy solution to Wikipedia's vandalism problems?
According to one humorous website, "ALL WE NEED TO DO is direct our
vandalism entirely to the article about chickens. Imagine a Wikipedia
free of vandalism!"
http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/
Note: that is a humorous website. It does not mean you are allowed to
... with Wikipdia's chickens.
=== Quote ===
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about
something." - Thomas H. Huxley
//////////////////////////////////////////
Editor(s): Casey, Alex, Walter
Thanks to: Sue, Anoop, Patricio, Galio, Effe, Brianmc, Signpost,
Andrew Turvey, Angela, Sage Ross, Philippe, Phoebe, Chzz, MarkW
Contact: reply or http://report.wikizine.org
Website: http://www.wikizine.org
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correct grammar and spelling. Satisfaction is not guaranteed.
Wikizine.org is published by [[meta:user:Walter]],
and is not a publication of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikizine is a irregular publication as long as there is noteworthy
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I probably missed a few posts, but the way this is going raises some serious
questions. It would be helpfull if someone with good knowledge of English
Law would explain the risks of going trough the English Courts. I am a
lawyer, but not an English one. What I do know of the English Legal system
is that losing a lawsuit there is a very expensive excercise. And if this
thing goes to court there is a real chance that the Foundation will loose.
So a deal with NPG would be the sensible thing, and if a deal is not
possible deleting seems the better option.
Peter b.
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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:02:26 +0100
From: geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery
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2009/7/18 John at Darkstar <vacuum(a)jeb.no>:
> Sorry, I don't follow you on this one. If the existing business model
> don't work and it should be changed, then work with them to change it
> and make the alternate options viable.
>
> John
We do not have the capacity to raise sufficient funds to make it a
worthwhile business model.
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geni
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Put me in touch with instructors at art schools and I'll incorporate
restoration into their curriculum. You'll be surprised how scaleable this
is, particularly if we work out exhibition opportunities.
-Durova
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