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
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@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@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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