Hi everyone,
Like last year, we've published our work in progress FDC proposal on meta :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/Wikim…
We are currently in the process of improving and proofreading it with our
members .
If you have time to spare and are interested in this, please feel free to
prrofread it or ask questions on the talk page. Don't be afraid, we wrote
less than last year, and this year's half the length of the last one!
In the mean time, if you spot errors or parts you don't totally get, please
tell us, we'll do our best to improve it before Monday evening.
Also, if you have any questions regarding our programs for next year, don't
wait Tuesday to ask us questions about it.
Thanks to anyone who will help us improve our proposal.
All the best,
Christophe HENNER | Président
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Just a reminder that we're going to hold an office hours on the Wikimedia
Foundation strategy development process in about 15 minutes. Usual place
and stuff... #wikimedia-office on freenode. :-)
More info on meta at [[IRC Office hours]]
Thanks,
pb
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Hello Wikimedians,
On March 4th, the Community Engagement team initiated the first “Inspire
Campaign”, a drive to foster and support new ideas to improve gender
diversity on Wikimedia projects. The organizers set a goal of having 100
proposals by the end of March; this was met in the first week, and the
total now stands at 220 ideas, with a few more days more to go! The
campaign has brought in 492 participants to the process so far, nearly
hitting its target of 500 participants.
While discussion about gender has been active, the environment has largely
remained friendly and productive. The Inspire team would like to especially
thank the Meta community and its admins for helping to keep the process
positive and running smoothly. Discussion has been further aided by a
friendly spaces guideline for participants, which most everyone involved
has respectfully followed.[1]
However, the campaign is far from done.
The next step is developing and supporting viable ideas to become real
initiatives. We need your help, whether in the form of an endorsement for a
strong idea, or constructive suggestions on a proposal that needs more
work. Feedback from community members is key to helping an idea evolve,
and incorporating past learning and knowledge is very important for the
future success of these proposals.
You can explore ideas by category[2] or through a ‘leaderboard’ of the most
endorsed ideas[3]. And a list of ideas that have already expanded into
grant proposals can be seen here[4]. We hope to see you over at the
IdeaLab, and, remember, there are still a few days to help create
actionable ideas before March 31st!
If funding is needed to implement your idea, be sure to expand your idea
into a grant proposal before the campaign ends March 31st. Funding
decisions will be made by April 30th.
Cheers,
The Inspire Team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Friendly_space
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Ideas_by_theme
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Leaderboard
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Funding#Open_Grant_P…
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Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
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This press release is also available online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Guy_Kawasaki_joins_Wiki…
A version of this as a blog post is available here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/24/guy-kawasaki-joins-wikimedia-board/
*Guy Kawasaki joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees*
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*Author, entrepreneur to bring unique experience to the Wikimedia movement *
Today, the Wikimedia Foundation announced the newest member of its Board of
Trustees, Guy Kawasaki <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Kawasaki>. Guy is
a noted entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. He currently serves as chief
evangelist of Canva, an online, graphic-design service, and as an executive
fellow of Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley.
“There are few projects in the history of the world that can have the
long-term impact of Wikimedia.” said Guy. “The democratization of knowledge
that Wikimedia stands for has been a long time in the coming, and I relish
applying my passion and experience to this amazing mission.”
“Guy joins the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees at an exciting time,”
said Jan-Bart de Vreede, Wikimedia Foundation board chair. “We have great
opportunities ahead, and Guy brings a wealth of experience and perspective
as we look to that future.”
Prior to joining Canva, Guy served as special advisor to the CEO of the
Motorola business unit of Google. He is perhaps most widely known for his
time at Apple, where he developed and popularized the concept of “secular
evangelism” for Apple’s brand, culture, and products as the firm’s chief
evangelist. Guy will continue in his full-time role as chief evangelist of
Canva.
Guy is a *New York Times* bestselling author of books such as *The Art of
the Start 2.0*, *The Art of Social Media*, *Enchantment*, and ten other
books about change, innovation, marketing, and disruption. He gives more
than fifty keynote speeches a year and is a frequent public commentator on
subjects such as innovation, enchantment, social media, evangelism, and
entrepreneurship.
"Guy grasps what really moves people," said Lila Tretikov, Wikimedia
Foundation Executive Director. "His passion for extraordinary experiences
is a perfect fit for Wikipedia's remarkable mission. I am confident this
will be an incredible collaboration."
Guy holds an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA
from Stanford University. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Guy is an American who
resides with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Please see the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees#Guy_Kawasaki> for a
complete biography of Guy Kawasaki.
*About the Wikimedia Foundation*
- https://wikimediafoundation.org
- https://blog.wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia consists of more than 34
million articles in 288 languages. Every month, tens of thousands of active
volunteers contribute to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. With
nearly half a billion monthly users, projects operated by the Wikimedia
Foundation are one of the most popular web properties in the world. Based
in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3)
charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
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Hi,
Plenty of things like this happen in the Wikimedia world every day, but as
a music lover I'm especially happy about this one: The Open Well-Tempered
Clavier project was completed yesterday with the public domain release of
all the music files, and it's already on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_Well-Tempered_Clavier
In case you didn't know, The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach
is one of the most popular and influential works of European classical
music. The Open Well-Tempered Clavier is a project to record a complete
performance of this work and release the music files, as well as proofread
digital sheet music, to the public domain. It was crowd-funded through
Kickstarter.
The Well-Tempered Clavier is kinda like the "Dark Side of the Moon" of
classical music - if you listen to classical music, you likely own a
recording of it already, but since we are free culture geeks here, I'm sure
that you'll appreciate having this copy, too.
It's public domain, so download, listen and share as much as you wish, but
you may also want to show your support to the people behind this project by
downloading and naming your price through Bandcamp or purchasing a CD:
http://welltemperedclavier.org/
My personal thanks to the people who develop Pywikibot, thanks to which
uploading 48 huge files to Commons was easy (and indeed, possible - one of
them is over 100MB).
(Also, tomorrow is Bach's birthday according to the Julian calendar.)
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hi all,
I'd like to invite you to join Kim Gilbey and I for office hours on the new
Wikimedia Foundation strategy process.
This office hours will be held on Wednesday 3/25 from 16:00-17:00 UTC.
More information can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours.
Hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
pb
*Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | philippe(a)wikimedia.org | : @Philippewiki
<https://twitter.com/Philippewiki>