I know the link has been up through last year and possibly even longer. The hooded sweatshirt sure has kept me warm through the past couple of winters. I certainly wish they would expand the product line. Slim pickings. I've always wondered why the WMF has chosen to limit the offerings. I think they should open it up to the community and ask people what they want. And find a different vendor for the luggage/bags. In my opinion, they appear low in quality, yet high in price.
> The hooded sweatshirt sure has kept me warm through the past
> couple of winters.
I have had hundreds of t-shirts with logos on them, but none make
people on the street smile as much as the Wikipedia t-shirt.
> I certainly wish they would expand the product line.
I was promised a keychain-compatible robust USB drive, but I guess
that didn't work out.
How about modular MicroSD drives? e.g.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/buffalo-adds-16gb-microsd-card-reader-to…
I would buy a Wikimedia-branded Odroid: http://www.hardkernel.com/
Best regards,
James S.
On behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee, I would like to encourage anyone in our community
who is interested in hosting Wikimania 2015 to consult the revised Timeline and Criteria that
are now posted at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids
We have extended the deadline for submitting proposals to March 14, 2014.
Please get in touch with me directly if you have any questions or need help in preparing your bid.
Thanks,
Ellie Young
WMF Conference Coordinator
The planned expansion is great news to hear! On a personal note, I'm hoping to see a really, really big mug. I drink lotsa coffee. ;-) I appreciate the merchandising team's work. It does not go unnoticed!
I'm sorry but I find it pretty inappropriate that a chapter published such
strong words about volunteers of a Wikimedia Project *"certain legal
fetishism whose reason gets lost in processes and misses the outcome".*
I'm speaking on my behalf, however as a former board member of a Wikimedia
Chapter I would never ever publish such a text, it's uncalled for and
inappropriate to judge so strongly volunteers who dededicate their time for
our common mission "Free educational knowledge" <http://www.wikimedia.org/>.
As a Wikimedia Commons volunteer I'm disappointed by the process followed
by some chapters, i.e. which have chosen to bypass the community and send a
letter directly to the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.
However, I must say I would have prefered the chapters to talk with the
principal stakeholders, i.e. all the communities. I know, said chapters are
not forced to talk with the communities but It is rather ironical, when
"ignoring the stakeholder" is a blame that I have heard a lot this month :p I
believe the community as a whole is capable of complex discussion and
decision as proven by the *Trademark policy consultation*, or the *reclaim
community logo discussions*.
The thing that sadden the most is that I believe discussion on the URAA
application is important movement wide (and also for the spread of free
knowledge), however this discussion doesn't start on a good process and
some letters were not mellow.
I know people might not share my point of view on how we should work
together as a movement, however I wanted to state it. That being said, it
doesn't change all the good work done by WMIL, WMES, WMAR, and I'll be
happy to talk with anyone of you guys around a drink the next time we can
meet to share our vision of the movement.
*Disclaimer:* I'm writting on my own capacity, my opinion as an
administrator (and oversighter) on Commons is that I'm pretty neutral on
the URAA matter, what I want and need is a community consensus to apply
when I'm using the tools the Community gave me.
Sincerely,
Pierre-Selim
2014-02-24 21:51 GMT+01:00 Galileo Vidoni <galio2k(a)gmail.com>:
> Dear movement fellows,
>
> Wikimedia Argentina would like to express its support for the letter by
> Wikimedia Israel regarding URAA-motivated massive content deletions in
> Wikimedia Commons. Yet, we would like to express our view not only to the
> Foundation BoT but also to all Wikimedia editors, and especially to those
> working in Wikimedia Commons.
>
> Volunteers from Argentina have been among the most affected by the policy
> adopted by Wikimedia Commons administrators regarding images that could
> fall under URAA copyright provisions. Argentine copyright law provides that
> images enter the public domain "only" 25 years after their production and
> 20 after their first documented publication. This relatively generous
> criterion has enabled unaffiliated volunteers and we as Wikimedia Argentina
> to enrich Commons with hundreds of thousands of historical images that are
> absolutely free under Argentine law: images of the political and every day
> life of the country, of its culture, of its popular idols, of its joyful
> and dark days, of its customs and architecture.
>
> However, over the last months certain Wikimedia Commons administrators have
> conducted massive deletions of these contents, in many cases involving
> entire categories. The burden of proof has been inverted: instead of having
> to justify the deletion of a certain file, things go that volunteers have
> to devout their time trying to justify the validity of their efforts. This
> has caused great damage, not only by way of our readers loosing access to
> free educational contents, but also de-motivating many editors and
> volunteers by making them feel that their efforts are ultimately vain and
> that our goal of free knowledge for everyone is being replaced by a certain
> legal fetishism whose reason gets lost in processes and misses the outcome.
>
> We acknowledge that the Wikimedia Foundation BoT and its Legal team have
> repeatedly stated, as has been reinforced in recent communications, that
> images shouldn't be deleted unless we receive a takedown notice, and that
> it has not received a single URAA-motivated notice to date. Certain
> Wikimedia Commons administrators have dismissed the Foundation's statement
> as a mere opinion vis-à-vis the SCOTUS ruling. Yet, it is an opinion by the
> organization that is legally responsible for the contents being hosted in
> Wikimedia Commons.
>
> We respectfully call the Wikimedia Commons community to reflect on the
> practical consequences of its current policy on URAA's implementation.
> Those files generating potential conflict could be even identified as such
> without the need for a pre-emptive deletion. And we would like the Commons
> community to reflect not only on the preventive loss of free contents we
> are generating, but also on the harmful disconnection between Wikimedia
> Commons and all of the other Wikimedia projects it serves as media
> repository, mostly Wikipedia.
>
> Many years ago, the editors of the Spanish Wikipedia decided to close the
> possibility to directly host images, choosing instead to use Wikimedia
> Commons. If we miss the opportunity to find a workaround that saves
> hundreds of thousands of images from an unrequested deletion that hurts our
> very mission, Wikipedia editors could ultimately evaluate reversing that
> decision, reopening "project-hosted" uploads just to avoid the restrictive
> and exclusionary URAA interpretation that Wikimedia Commons has been
> sustaining against the Foundation's political and legal advice. That would
> be far from being an optimal outcome.
>
> We are sure that we as the broader community of Wikimedia volunteers can
> find a common ground that permits to adapt to all legal conditions and
> challenges while putting in the first place the fulfillment of our goal
> towards free knowledge.
>
> Approved by the Board of Wikimedia Argentina on February 22, 2014
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Pierre-Selim
( National Students Union of India ) Goa- State President. Sanjay R.S.
Like his father, Sanjay Roque Santan started his public life
at an early age while in high school by participate in the 1979, 50% concession
struggle of Goan students, Public transport on strike he is known to
have walked the whole distance from Velim to Panjim to participate in the
struggle. He was the front leader in the HSSC marks scandal which rocked the
Government of Goa in the early 80’s. Together they won free education for all
in Goa up to degree level. People close to
Sanjay say that he has worked closely with AICC(I) leaders namely Ramesh
Chennithala of Kerala, Mukul Wasnik, Farid Arrifudin, Manish Tewari and Oscar
Fernades for Congress President Rajiv Gandhi, He was Goan student
representative to Bombay University student council in 1985. He was appointed
as State president in 1988(1988-1995). As the State President of National
Students Union of India(NSUI), frontal organization and the student wing of the
Congress party, under his leadership Goa- NSUI won several University students
councils for the Congress party. Names of his office bearers from the Congress
house, Panjim files are Vice-President Daniel Britto, Sandesh Padiyar, Orlando
Menezes, General Secretaries , Uttam Raut Dessai, Chitra Shriwaikar, Clemente Desouza, Treasurer Agnelo Fernandes,
South Goa District President Amresh Ramesh Naik, Joint secretaries, Merwyn
Fernandes, Amul Dessai, Legal cell, Eddison D’Cruz. Medical Cell Zelio Dmel
Sanjay is known by his associates for his aggressive work
ethics, basically warrier at the core, after the 1989 All India Congress, AICC(I)
session in New Delhi he got into open confrontation with the Goa Pradesh
Congress Committee, GPCC(I) top brass for not implementation the party aims and
objectives of grass root level party building putting up a bold face that
nobody was spared. As the member of the
Congress Pradesh candidate selection committee for All India General election
of 1989 and 1991 a state apex body for the selection of wining candidates for the
Congress party he stood for Rajiv Gandhi’s intention to deny part tickets for
economic offenders. In1989 Sanjay was under age to contest Assembly Elections. All
his state office bearers say Sanjay had
a clear vision, wanted to eradicate corrupt elements within the party and was
campaigning for a law to keep economic offenders and criminal convicts out of the
Democratic process. He wanted to review all Goan land sale transaction and
suspicious power of attorney under Congress rule in Goa in the interest of public. We here in Panjim are waiting for his reaction to
Lokpal law. Having seen his classmates suffered and his academic life disturbed
by ‘always absent teacher’ who was a politician he also wanted teachers out of
active politics.
Sanjay was the Chairman, All Goa Anti-Smoking and Anti-Drugs
Campaign and submitted recommendations to Goa Government to end smoking and
drugs in and around college campuses. He
was part of the NSUI delegation to the
1989 International Youth Conference held in Korea, 1991 he was part of 11 member South Asian United Nation delegation to Manila, Philippines to study urban and rural poverty. In 1993 he
submitted case studies to United nations
with regards to Safat, Kuwait, Dubai and Manama, Bahrain labour conditions to press for minimum wage and dignity of
domestic/commercial labour in oil rich
countries. In 1994 he was part of a 6 member Capitalist Economics Forum to
study Presidential form of Democracy in Washington DC, USA and Parliamentary form of Democracy in London, UK.
At a press briefing in Panjim on 22-23st May 1991
following the tragic assassination of AICC(I) President Rajiv Gandhi at the
hands of LTTE, himself physically shaken and choked he expressed shock and sorrow at the life cut
short of a leader who had all good intentions for the people of India, there on
in the absence of genuine leadership Sanjay is said to have found himself in a
vacuum, his work grind to a halt. Despite several requests from his side of
stepping down he was told to continue and tried to work under the leadership of
Narasimha Rao AICC(I) President and Prime Minister. In 1991 he lead the Goa NSUI delegation demanding to erect a life size statue of Rajiv Gandhi in the Goa Medical College
Complex, Bambolim, Goa. A copy of a resignation
letter from Congress house Panjim, NSUI files, dated 21st Dec 1995 addressed
to All India NSUI President, Salem Ahmed the whole state committee signed and
resigned ‘to make way for the new committee’ , some time there after he left
this country and is heard to have settled in USA, is married and has a son. Sanjay’s
well wishers are waiting for his return to Goa the place he and his family loves.
Descending from the ancient royal family which ruled south Indian mainlands for over a thousand years, Sanjay’s family still occupies and live in one of
their royal premises by the beautiful foothills and in the grandeur of the 12th century
Kadamba Jayakeshi I Southern Capital site Velliapura in present day Velim,
South Goa and according to the Kadamba Coterie resource he is the 42nd successor to the founder of reign of Hangal.
______________________________________
…ref:/ Kadambas the royals of South India, Our proud
heritage. The secrets of Velim.
Kd/PhD.pap.
…:-mater permitted by the original research author for research purpose.
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
the programme team has just published an updated version of the
sessions that we are planning to cover at the Wikimedia Conference
(April 10-13, Berlin): Right now, we have 30 sessions on the
agenda![1]
Please note that this is still work in progress, it is not all set in
stone - at least not yet. We will now be working with the facilitators
to figure out the best possible session formats and will present a
schedule draft by mid March.
We are still looking for several speakers, panellists and discussion
partners among the participants, and have indicated this need with an
"OPEN CALL for speakers" for the respective sessions. Several sessions
still need qualified speakers, please reach out to the programme team
and express your interest in preparing and holding or contributing
otherwise to a session.
The official programme of the conference starts on Friday. For groups
who would like to arrange separate or special meetings, we have
reserved the conference venue for an Open Thursday already[2]. Please
get in touch with WMDE's event management (wmcon{{(a)}}wikimedia.de) to
make respective arrangements.
Let us know if you have any comments, ideas, wishes or concerns and
help us make this conference very productive and sustainable.
Best regards, on behalf of the programme team,
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Programme
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Open_Thursday
--
Nicole Ebber
Leiterin Internationales
Head of International Affairs
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 219158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.