I'm just now catching up on email. Regarding the website, I would like it
to be a place where we can make our grants and board documents available. I
feel that it should be legally separate from WMF web properties, although
we may run MediaWiki on the website. The company that hosts the SeaFOSS
website has provided me with good service and I'm planning to include a web
hosting fee from them in our proposed budget and grant requests. I could
run a site under my own name under my current contract, but it's legally
preferable for our user group to have an independent contract. Once the
website is operational I think the maintenance will be modest. We can
continue to have discussions on Meta and have event postings also noted on
Meta and ENWP. ENWP's geonotice feature is especially useful. I agree that
we need to be mindful of maintenance requirements, and for that reason we
might want to limit the content posted to our website while providing
prominent referrals to places where we're already maintaining and updating
information on Meta and English Wikipedia. I think the most labor-intensive
part of the operation will be setting up the website; once that is done
we'll probably only need to update it a few times a year. Mako and Jason,
if you two would be willing to collaborate with each other to set up a
modest website when we get the funds for hosting, I would appreciate it (:
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Jason Moore <anotherbelieverwp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Another option is to create a Cascadia Wikimedians
page at English
Wikipedia. It might get more traffic and participation than the Meta pages.
But, of course, this would just be one more page to manage. I would only
recommend creating it if we think much of our activities will be centered
around ENWP and if we think it would invite more participation. If we do
want a page at ENWP (of course I am talking about a project page, not a
Wikipedia article), I'd be happy to get one started.
Jason
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Benj. Mako Hill <mako(a)atdot.cc> wrote:
Greetings Pine!
<quote who="Pine W" date="Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 01:28:10AM
-0800">
However, if anyone has spare time to do things
like set up websites
and bank accounts, please let me know.
I'm happy to set up a website. What sort of thing were you thinking?
It seems that lots of usergroups use their pages in meta as their main
websites. Sometimes, groups have a prettier page on a domain that
highlights some recent events and points there. I've hesitant to
create a special website that we then need to maintain unless it's
solving a problem. :)
Later,
Mako
--
Benjamin Mako Hill
http://mako.cc/
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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