the other things used by pa follow the same rule, like mailing list, irc
channel? thats great to hear, many thanks!
rupert.
On 7/13/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I'm sorry, but you guys are a little behind. We, in association with
> ChapComm, have already created a website at <http://pa.us.wikimedia.org>.
> At a later date, we will be creating <http://us.wikimedia.org> as a portal
> for Wikimedia chapters in the United States and information that applies
> to
> all of them.
>
> We do not have a real reason for not using <http://pa.wikimedia.us>,
> except
> the fact that we believed pa.us.wikimedia.org looked better. However, at
> a
> later date, we may set up a redirect from Wikimedia.us to us.wikimedia.org
> .
>
> Thank you for your comments on this matter and I hope you will continue to
> show support towards this new Chapter.
>
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023
>
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> From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dedalus
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 3:27 PM
> To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania
>
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> >Using the .us domain did cross my mind. Can you explain why
> >pa.wikimedia.us would be preferable to wikimedia.pa.us? My impression
> >has been that leading codes would be linguistic, and trailing codes
> >would be national and sub-national.
>
> Please keep in mind RFC 1480: non-governmental state-wide agencies
> like Wikimedia
> chapters would have to list something like wikimedia.gen.<state>.us.
>
> There are pros and cons to that system. Please note that there are
> currently no charges for domain registration. For example to register
> wikimedia.gen.tx.us visit:
> http://www.ns.gen.tx.us/cgi-bin/template.pl
>
> However there might be a very simple reason why
> <two-letter-state-code>.wikimedia.us is to be preferred. WMF already
> registered wikimedia.us (and can therefore easily create
> pa.wikimedia.us).
>
> Dedalus
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Ray Saintonge wrote:
>Using the .us domain did cross my mind. Can you explain why
>pa.wikimedia.us would be preferable to wikimedia.pa.us? My impression
>has been that leading codes would be linguistic, and trailing codes
>would be national and sub-national.
Please keep in mind RFC 1480: non-governmental state-wide agencies
like Wikimedia
chapters would have to list something like wikimedia.gen.<state>.us.
There are pros and cons to that system. Please note that there are
currently no charges for domain registration. For example to register
wikimedia.gen.tx.us visit:
http://www.ns.gen.tx.us/cgi-bin/template.pl
However there might be a very simple reason why
<two-letter-state-code>.wikimedia.us is to be preferred. WMF already
registered wikimedia.us (and can therefore easily create
pa.wikimedia.us).
Dedalus
As you know, the Foundation's fiscal year end is June 30th, which means
that it's the time of year where we begin the audit process.
In the prior year, the Foundation engaged the firm Gregory Sharer &
Stuart to conduct the audit of the financial statements for the fiscal
years ending June 30th, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
The audit committee will once again, be engaging the same firm to
complete the audit for the current year.
In the coming weeks, we will be working with the firm in order to
prepare for the audit planning process. We have also engaged an
accountant and former auditor (Mona Venkateswaran) to help facilitate
the audit process, and implement any resulting recommendations that are
an outcome of the audit.
Mona Venkateswaran has been engaged on a part-time consultant basis,
working from Toronto. Her more general role is to work with Oleta (our
accountant) and Barbara (office manager) to institute new administrative
controls and procedures.
The audit committee will also be working to update the report from the
prior year, in order to reflect the progress that has been made to date.
Recently, the chair of the audit committee, Oscar, set up a wiki and a
mailing list, so that we can have a common place to work on the
procedure. Mona, Oleta, Sue and I had a meet-and-greet with the audit
firm this week. Mona, the auditors & Oleta will now begin assessing our
records; then they will be able to give the audit committee a target
date for when the audit will be done. The audit committee should hold
its own kick-off meeting within the next two-three weeks.
The planning work for the audit is set to begin by mid-August, with a
view to complete the work by end of September. We hope to have the
final audited financial statements and report for you by this time.
Link: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Finance_report#Update_july_2007
Florence
Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Daniel Mayer wrote:
>> The legal differences between states are minor enough for plenty of
>> national membership
>> organizations to exist.
> Which largely have independently registered and incorporated state
> chapters/organizations, that are independent of (but subservient to)
> the national organization. You have NOW (the organization) and then
> NOW of Illinois. The national Democratic Party. The Democratic Party
> of Florida. The Jewish Federation. The Jewish Federation of
> California. The American Bar Association. The Florida Bar Association.
> The South Carolina Bar Association (which I can assure you has
> extremely different laws than Florida does).
The ABA and the various state bar associations are really not good
illustrations of your point here. State bar associations are not
subservient to or even affiliated with the ABA, which is purely a trade
and lobbying association. Rather, the state bar associations are
licensing bodies that determine the qualifications for attorneys to
practice in that state's courts, and subservient to whoever has the
ultimate authority over those qualifications (commonly the state's
highest court). Anyway, they're quasi-public entities with obligations
to serve the entire state, and focused pretty exclusively on their
state. Probably not the most useful model for us.
--Michael Snow
Congratulations and best wishes to Erik, Kat, and Frieda!
the wub wrote:
> Thanks also to the Election Committee, and everyone else involved in
> the election, for all their hard work.
By "everyone else" I would include especially the voters, who had a lot
of information to digest in making their decisions.
--Michael Snow
Casey Brown wrote:
>If I understand correctly, the type of voting is left up to the Election
>Committee of that year's collection. If so, you will need to bother them
>with this in the future (around or during next year's election).
>
Waiting that long would probably not be wise. Approval voting is
simple, but anything more complicated needs to be discussed over an
extended period of time.
Ec
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Casey Brown wrote:
> Just for the record, we are doing State-based chapters at the request of the
> Chapters Committee. We had originally wanted a regional committee, but
> ChapComm strongly suggested simply a state organization (and who were we to
> argue? :P).
Hmm, I'd tend to agree with the sentiment that regional / metro-based
chapters make more sense than state chapters, especially if the idea is
to organize local activity. We already have US legal infrastructure in
WMF, and there'll be more benefit in local organizing by keeping groups,
well, local.
Miami and Tallahassee, or Los Angeles and San Francisco, or Philly and
Pittsburgh, don't seem like super-convenient pairings to me.
What's the argument in favor of state-level blocks?
> Interesting point about the name. However, the two do indeed overlap, in
> many instances including this one. Our own article even says that the
> internet TLD .pa is used by Panama *and* Pennsylvania jointly, due to the
> overlap in their names. I really don't think it is worth changing at this
> moment in time. After all, there may never be a Wikimedia Panama and it is
> just an abbreviation, no official meaning is given.
One sensible thing might be to use subdomains under wikimedia.us:
pa.wikimedia.us, il.wikimedia.us, etc? :)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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Mistake on previous post -
should read 2 from Europe, not two from US.
regards,
Alex
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Casey Brown wrote:
>O_O you must be joking. All those languages yourself? You're like a
>one-man translation committee!
>Casey Brown
>Cbrown1023
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>From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
>[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Joshua
>Brady
>Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:06 AM
>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] volunteers to compile
>weekly/monthlyfoundation-l
>summaries?
>If there is a real interest I could translate some of the more
>important items on request. I can do dutch, french, german, spanish,
>portuguese, italian, arabic, hebrew, farsi, chinese traditional,
>simplified, and mandarian level on language code-4 or better.
Indeed. And here's me thinking I'm great ordering a drink in French... go
for it Joshua!
Alex (Majorly)
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