Hi all,
the Board of Trustees held a discussion at its Board meeting this week regarding the creation of a travel guide project. Based upon those discussions and the current state of the RFC, we would like the community to continue its discussions for at least 6 more weeks to ensure all interested parties have an opportunity to express their views.
During the meeting we discussed many things all of which are important for the community to understand:
a) We are excited to see this proposal from the community, and hope the wider community of editors can reach consensus on it. We are waiting for the conclusion of the RfC to take a decision on the issue.
b) We are committed to making knowledge freely reusable, and feel there is room for multiple travel sites to coexist.
c) We feel it is important to be transparent with the community, that should consensus be reached and a travel project created, the foundation could support the initial creation of a travel guide project, but could not provide a great deal of additional engineering or staff support. Further technical efforts would have to come from the community.
Please leave your Comments at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide
Regards, Alice