Enviado por André Caldas de Souza (andre·em·caldasΘgmail·com):
“A questão da venda casada de sistema operacional e computador já é
bastante conhecida dos leitores do Br-Linux. Pessoalmente, não acredito que
cada pessoa que se sinta prejudicada deva precisar recorrer aos órgãos de
defesa do consumidor ou aos tribunais de pequenas causas para simplesmente
receber de volta o seu dinheiro. Dessa forma, o abuso nunca vai cessar. O
cidadão paciente e persistente o suficiente para ficar sendo enrolado na
esperança de talvez conseguir que seus direitos sejam respeitados nem
sempre consegue. E quando consegue, que punição recebeu a empresa que
desrespeitou seus direitos? A devolução do dinheiro? E que motivo essa
empresa teria para parar com essas práticas abusivas?
Por esta razão, não procurei o PROCON. Também por essa razão, não procurei
o juizado especial. Entrei com uma ação e nela exigi, além do meu dinheiro
de volta, que fossem tomadas medidas para inibir essa prática. Dia
31/12/2013, quase um ano e meio depois de distribuído o processo, a
sentença foi proferida: IMPROCEDENTE.
No site Microsoft Pedágio <http://microsoftpedagio.wordpress.com/>, analiso
a sentença proferida. Essencialmente, a sentença utilizou a tradicional
comparação com um carro, dizendo que vender um computador sem sistema
operacional é como vender um carro sem chassi. A questão da recusa do
fabricante em cumprir a “não aceitação da licença”, prevista na EULA foi
ignorada. Minha análise parcial da sentença está nos posts: Venda casada:
improcedente — parte
I<http://microsoftpedagio.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/venda-casada-improcedente-…>e
Venda
casada: improcedente — parte
II<http://microsoftpedagio.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/venda-casada-improcedente-…>.”
[referência: microsoftpedagio.wordpress.com<http://microsoftpedagio.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/venda-casada-improcedente-…>
]
Galera,
Encaminho mais uma mensagem do Patricio Lorente enviada à lista do Iberocoop. Dessa vez, sobre a escolha do novo membro do Board.
Abs,
Vinicius
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 19:21:42 -0300
From: galio2k(a)gmail.com
To: iberocoop(a)listas.iberocoop.org
Subject: [Iberocoop] WMF busca un miembro para el Board
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From: Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:40 AM
Subject: Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation - Board Member search
To: Galileo Vidoni <galio2k(a)gmail.com>
Galio, por favor, ¿podrías enviar este email a la lista interna de Iberocoop? Abrazo,
Patricio
Queridos amigos:
La Fundación se encuentra a la búsqueda de un nuevo miembro del Board en reemplazo de Matt Halprin, cuyo mandato venció el 31 de diciembre pasado. Como ustedes saben, cuatro de los diez miembros no son electos sino que son seleccionados por el propio Board para complementar los perfiles existentes.
Se le ha encargado a una consultora que ya trabajó con la Fundación que hiciera una primer selección. No es un trabajo fácil, ya que se trata de una responsabilidad importante, que demanda tiempo y que es completamente voluntaria. Cada uno de los miembros del Board hemos sido entrevistados para tratar de definir prioridades y orientar la búsqueda, y si bien no conozco los detalles de las demás entrevistas, parece ser que todos hemos coincidido a la hora de considerar la diversidad como un valor en sí para nuestro movimiento y apuntar la búsqueda a un candidato que en lo posible no fuera del mundo angloparlante (aunque el conocimiento del inglés es imprescindible) y aún mejor si fuera del sur del mundo y mujer. Y un compromiso tangible con valores similares (no necesariamente idénticos) a los que nosotros expresamos.
El ejemplo de Bishakha para mí es muy importante: no viene del mundo Wikimedia pero tiene impresionantes antecedentes de trabajo con los sectores más postergados de su sociedad (en particular con mujeres desplazadas y prostitutas), y su aporte y compromiso en estos años ha sido invalorable.
Quiero invitarlos a que nos ayuden en esta búsqueda con ideas y sugerencias. He estado tratando de imaginar personas e instituciones del mundo académico y/o del no gubernamental en América Latina, me parece que por allí puede surgir alguna posibilidad interesante.
Les dejo abajo un email que me envió la responsable de la consultora con mayor información incluída la nota de presentación (en inglés) que están utilizando. No es información confidencial, aunque sería importante que coordináramos antes de contactar una persona o institución así no nos superponemos.
Un abrazo, y gracias!
Patricio
Hi Patricio - it was so nice to meet you. Thanks for your time and insight into some of the characteristics of a new board member. As I said, we are focusing our outreach globally and are paying specific attention to the Global South.
If you have ideas of individuals or organizations that we should specifically reach out to, please let me know. I will follow up on any suggestions. Additionally, I would encourage you to get the word out to your own networks in the hope that either someone will personally be interested, they will suggest someone else, or forward the email on to a wide community.
The following is the email that we are sending to people announcing the Board position. It would be great if you could write or translate an opening statement/paragraph, or paraphrase the content to highlight some of the more important elements, asking people for suggestions, nominations, or to forward on to their networks. I defer to your judgment.
m/Oppenheim Associates is assisting the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, California in the search for a new Board Member, and we are reaching out to the community for suggestions and nominations.
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content; and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property. Wikipedia contains more than 22 million volunteer-authored articles in over 280 languages and is visited by more than 450 million people monthly.
The Wikimedia Foundation provides the technical, operating and managerial infrastructure to sustain and grow Wikimedia’s free knowledge projects. The Foundation supports a global volunteer community of contributors, chapters and readers that contribute ideas, benefit from the support provided by the Foundation, and continually upgrade and evolve Wikimedia's free knowledge projects. The Foundation's goals include reaching one billion readers globally and 200,000 contributors by 2015.
The Board functions as a governance body that adjudicates the complex policy-setting process of the Wikimedia Community, supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations, and hires the organization’s Executive Director who leads all Foundation staff. As arguably the most influential and respected organization in the free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia Foundation and its Board have a great responsibility for setting policy deliberately and with due consideration for the diverse interests of a truly global community.
This search effort will be one of mutual exploration on the part of prospective candidates and current Trustees. The Board’s objective is to use this search to strengthen its knowledge of: board governance, grantmaking, strategy, and issues of importance to prospective new Wikimedia growth markets. However, there are no predefined criteria for selection.
Two-year, renewable terms are served, and the time commitment is significant. The Board of Trustees meets four times a year, twice in San Francisco and twice in changing locations around the globe. Meetings take two days and travel can add another two days to each meeting. In addition, the Board communicates frequently by email and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) as it navigates policy issues. This can absorb 4-10 hours weekly. Board members also regularly engage with the Community through wiki pages.
Other Trustees feel that they would benefit from a member who has experience with organizations that have grown and evolved explosively, and who understands how boards can evolve to provide appropriate governance support. Experience with international, community-driven, consensus organizations is also important as the Foundation would not exist without the community.
A complete position description can be found here and additional information can be found at
www.moppenheim.com and www.wikimediafoundation.org. Your suggestions and nominations are most welcome and feel free to distribute this note as you deem appropriate.
Please call us at any time. We are always happy to assist our friends and colleagues in the nonprofit community.
Lisa Grossman
(650) 323-3565 or lisag(a)moppenheim.com
Mark Oppenheim
(415) 762-2640 or
marko(a)moppenheim.com
Thanks again, Patricio.
Lisa
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From: Theo10011 <de10011(a)gmail.com>
Date: 8 February 2013 19:25
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] How to set up a SIG?
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi <
i.abhishek.suryawanshi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> *BTW I'd like to join this "Wikipedia club pune" of yours along with 3
>> other brazilians, one of them might be under 18 - I'm not sure. I'd like
to
>> join and speak on its behalf please. *
>>
>
> You are welcome to join it. and relax - below 18, above 18 is last thing
> we care. Special thanks for bringing in diversity to Club.
>
> Call us older generation, but we prefer facebook for communication :
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaClubPune/
> Stay connected via group to get updates about club. :-)
>
> More than joining, if you 'like' to like things - then you can join 3767
> Club followers - https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune
>
>
Thank you.
I'd now like to speak on behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune. We would officially
like to change our language preference to Portuguese, and affirm that Pune
is the second bestest place in India, after Delhi. Also We like Cheese!
Thank you that is all.
Anyway, please look forward to having more brazilian members of your club
than pune ones. Some of those would be underage boys and girls, but you are
from an "older generation" of course. :P
BTW in case you haven't realized, that was not to ask for membership but
point out how important it is to have a resident as a member unless they
start speaking for a country or a city they know nothing about. The 18 is
the age requirement usually set by the law, and when you decide to
officially register your organization as a society, I'll point you to the
age requirement law or why parental supervision becomes necessary in some
cases.
Regards
Theo
Apparently, Wikipedia Pune Club member
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From: David Richfield <davidrichfield(a)gmail.com>
Date: 8 February 2013 08:22
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Patent claim relating to QRpedia
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
After the success of Monmouthpedia etc, we decided to try something
similar in South Africa - in collaboration with the Heritage
department of the City of Johannesburg. After the President of
Wikimedia South Africa did a radio interview about the proposed
project, our contact in the City got this letter:
===
Dear Eric,
Kindly note that this email is sent without prejudice.
It would be greatly appreciated if you would consider the Walk and
Talk Tours patented system in 1999 with regards to information signage
relating back to electronic media to obtain information in respect of
a site.
To take this step further I would suggest that Johannesburg
Development Agency/ Johannesburg Arts and Culture/ Wikapedia etc
consider buying this concept from Walk and Talk Tours CC without the
necessity of going through unnecessary legal fees in using the
patented concept without the consent of Walk and Talk Tours CC.
Kind regards
Beryl Porter
www.walktours.co.za
Tel: +27 11 444 1639
Fax: +27 11 444 6128
Cell: +27 83 269 9769
email: bporter(a)iafrica.com
===
I did some research, and found the relevant patent here:
http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/WO2004021309
A brief review of the patent seems to indicate that it doesn't cover
anything except for phone calls, but the wording is sufficiently broad
that one could construe it to refer to any data sent over a wireless
network. Can someone on this list please give an opinion?
Thanks,
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Uruguai!
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From: Fernando Da Rosa Morena <fernando.darosa(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:46 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Wikipedia in Education, Uruguay project
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all. Lianna has suggested to me that I joined to this list and now
here I am. I tell them that in Uruguay with CFE and CEIBAL support we are
developing a project on the subject Wikipedia in Education, I am directing
the project.
Here I pass more information:
The "Wikipedia in Education" is a project that began late last year, and
will be developed this year and next year. According to the results we may
be able to continue it after 2014. We have yet two videos uploaded to
youtube about the inaugural project activity. A lecture given by me and
another by Angeles Soletic, the first of which is Wikipedia and how it
works. The second is about the use of Wikipedia in Education. Both
conferences are in Spanish:
http://youtu.be/-GRm7TOOlt0http://youtu.be/PFe_22EMoKE
Both videos are free delivery and were released under Creative Commons 3.0
CC-BY-SA. I have not uploaded to Commons because each of the videos have a
weight greater than 100 MB.
On my website you can find more information and a link to the presentation
made by me on the project start date. The presentation is in. svg format
and is also free to use. Here I leave the link to the article:
http://www.fedaro.info/2012/12/24/wikipedia-en-la-educacion-lanzamiento-del…
Here I leave also a direct link to the presentation, made with JessyInk. To
see it you must use a browser that supports SVG as Firefox or Google
Chrome, it also may take a while to load. Then you must use the arrow keys
to move along the presentation.
http://www.fedaro.info/archivos/presenta/WikipediaHoy10.svg
Fernando da Rosa
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Ni!
Mando isto na lista pois creio haver outros casos semelhantes...
Tom e Jonas, as atividades que vocês organizaram e participaram em
Recife *não estão listadas na agenda nem no histórico*:
http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Últimas_Notíciashttp://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Histórico_de_atividades
Por favor incluam-as ali o quanto antes, para facilitar o trabalho dos
que estão preparando o relato do capítulo 2012.
Abraço,
l
e
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Chapters_Association#WMF_Boar…
Tá rolando uma quebra ae entre o Board e o WCA ( W.C.a ;) ), finalmente
alguém olhou para aquilo e pensou "poh, acho que com toda essa burocracia
essa pomba não vai voar" e é claro que os bros ficaram na revolts, e
blablabla. Um ponto interessante é que como o Iberocoop se vende muito bem,
eles acham que tudo é flores dentro do grupo, então falam que ele é um
modelo a ser seguido.
Para quem não sabe, o CM é um evento extremamente político, e que as
pessoas forçam que vc assuma um lado, forçam que vc assuma
responsabilidades, então quem quiser ir, comece a ler essas porcarias, para
não ficar boiando lá, e entenda também o motivo pelos quais muitos
brasileiros foram contra o WCA e mais do que isso, que saiba expressar os
motivos pelos quais voluntários daqui foram contra. Senão, será um peso
morto.
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