Hi everyone,
This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can
read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>.
Office hours this Friday are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30PM to 4:30PM
PDT). Mike will also be taking the following Thursday from 1600 to
1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT).
The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be
#wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC
client, you can always access Freenode by going to
http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and
choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click
through a security warning. Go ahead.
--
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hey Cary
You mentioned something about office hour.
what is this?
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> Hey everyone!
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> On Friday, June 11, the Office Hour will once again be hosted by Mike
> Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read
> about at <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Mikegodwin>
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> Office hours are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 PM PST).
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> If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
> using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at
> <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
> nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
> #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
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> Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
> typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
> the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning.
> It should be all right.
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Just a passing note about a news story I saw today:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10806183
If the majority of the US is standardizing on a single curriculum (or,
at least, a standard base curriculum), that makes a nice stable target
for Wikibooks textbook authors to aim at when creating books for
school-aged US children. It certainly beats the large and unruly mess
of competing standards that made such targetting impossible for
Wikibooks in the past.
--Andrew Whitworth