I always want to work on a project that sees more scientific, peer-reviewed journal
articles (or at least the images/tables/figures) being released under Creative Commons
license (particularly in biology since this is my area of interest).
Andrew
"Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 11:08:21 -0700
From: jmh649(a)gmail.com
To: wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia-Canada] Steering Committee
WRT being part of the "steering committee" it was set up only for getting this
organization through the incorporation process. The documents has been submitted. Only if
it fails will more input be needed. If does pass the bureaucratic hurtles and people
disagree with any of the bylaw we can than discuss amendments. Some of the previous email
contain personal information. While I am open to sharing this others may be less so.
WRT where we go next everyone has an equal opportunity to provide input. As we are not
formally an organization at this point there is no official membership and no one to give
official approval to carry something out. This also means that any funding needed will be
personally provided. Once we have a bank account and a formal link with Wikimedia
opportunities for funding may appear. We will eventually need a site which will accept
donations. I think Alan Walker has expressed interest in creating something like this. It
is my hope that it will eventually go live at an address such as .ca.wikimedia.org Wiki UK
has a good design that we could emulate here
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK
If anyone has projects they wish to pursue please feel free to begin discussion either
here or on the meta site. The meta site of course could use further development. Someone
able to maintain translation into French would be nice. Once incorporation has taken place
I have a friend who has agreed to help with this.
Projects I have been working on getting up and running include: 1) A Wikimedia club at
UBC. Another faculty member and Wikipedian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jbmurray has
expressed interest in this. 2) Pushing for release of material by the Canadian government
into the creative common. A bunch of other great suggestions are listed here
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Canada/Potential_Projects
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, B.Sc.
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