I would like to perhaps make a comment on it, which I hope you will not
find rude.
One of the mission of the board is to find money. This money is not
meant to party, it is meant to make the project work and proceed.
One of the way we can do this is by going for grants.
As such, some dedicated users who care for the project and want it to go
forward (in this case Danny, who is NOT a member of the board) are using
their free time and energy to ask for grants.
Some foundation offered us money to us, for a project that many editors
found great. So, we accepted.
Danny wrote a proposal here :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikijunior
And invited people to register. And several people already gave their
support. As far as I can see, no one opposed. I do not even see your
opposition.
You are most welcome to discuss the issue over there.
Rebecca a écrit:
The minutes of the last board meeting suggested that
money was being
accepted to found a Wikijunior project. Now, while I can understand
that it wasn't entirely initiated by the board, being approached by an
outside foundation at all, it seems that once again, it's been decided
at a board-level, and there's going to be no discussion in the
community as to whether we actually should have a Wikijunior project
at all. If I remember correctly, this has been discussed many times
before - and has not generally received a good response. Yet now I
hear that it's going ahead anyway.
I just hope that this isn't going to be a repeat of the Wikispecies
saga. If we are going to fork the project, it is not that hard to
throw together a proposal, ala Wikinews - or at least publicly discuss
the darn thing first.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikijunior
-- ambi