effe iets anders wrote:
Hmmm, who are you referring to as "someone of the foundation who should be moderating the list"? I don't think that someone is availeble, especially when I see how much work they already have. Further I find it hard to imagine business-proposals that should be discussed on some list, but not by the Wikimedia-communities. If the argument would be "high-traffic" I could follow your redenation, although I would have still my doubts, but I am afraight I lost you here totally. You seem to suggest either that you want to discuss things behind the back of the communities because they would be disturbing the process, but then I am wondering why it should be on a emaillist at all, or you seem to suggest that the communities are anyway incompetent to understand or discuss the proposals, and I find that very insulting to the people who make up these communities. Maybe you could clarify which of the two you mean, or which other meaning you had in mind.
Lodewijk
A suggestion for a list where people building businesses around Wikipedia could discuss business related issues with a similiar mindset. That's all. Issues like: How do we keep MediaWiki synced up to always work with dumps. How can we help the foundation create revenue generating opportunities. Schedules for conferences for business people who are using Wikipedia content in business and for funded education programs. How do we rally funding for project X proposed by Community member 'X'. That sort of thing.
Jeff