Hello, I'm now worried about Quarto vol.2: its release strongly. In my
opinion we are better to release it within this month, if possible
before March 15, the midst of this month.
Quarto is a newsletter from the foundation (hence from the board) and
Quarto vol.2 is basically a report of the foundation and board
activity in 2004/Q4. I like to read project reports and meetups but
essentially they are additional parts in my understandings. We can
put aside them. But quartery report should be provide in my opinion.
We are an international non-profit organisation and people support us
substentially, therefore we should react to those support. And in my
part the activity of the project like Wikipedia is not sufficient for
such responsibility and visibility of the foundation. And I have no
reason to let the relase of information on those issues delay no more.
If we are waiting for the begining of 2005/Q2, we will be seemed to be
idle, though I know many of translators have been working on it, such
shadow work is always uncomprehensible from the outside.
Recently Sj and I talked about this issue and we reached to the
conclusion some contributions to Quarto vol.2 could appear on vol.3.
Now I propose we will release some edition including English, German,
Japanese and French on March 15. But not the whole part of initial
plan but the content as the below:
*Whole part of pages 1-3 and 8 (Endnote, Angela's report on BBC visit)
*Some part of page 4; (Project report) Local chapter reports, Wikinews
reports, short report from some language projects, "Buon Natale"
project report (it is a seasonal topic so can't be delay more) . Other
stuffs will be reused on the "Spring" issue.
*If possible, "In the Media" and "International": I think most of this
part are translated already and we have no reason to save it to the
next issues.
On the contrary the interview of Larry Lessig will appear in the next
edition. I propose here some stuffs will appear only twice a year to
reduce the task of volunteer translators. In current situation there
are too many stuffs. Since we have no right to assign translation task
to each community nor certain translators, and curerntly we are not
many in number, we should keep the task in a size we can manage. Or I
think we can make a new media to provide project and community news
and keep the newsletter much tighter in its shape. but it could be
discussed in another chance.
I admit we should have take an action before, but I hope it is not too
late. Of course ideally I would like to release the current version in
eitht pages, but I assert it is unbearable now for our translator
team, so it should be resized and we should provide the quartery
report periodically - in my opinion in this situation no news is bad
news. Core isseus should be reported even it will seem a bit less
amused.
How do you think?
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