There is a discussion on Wikipedia about some changes that would give
additional prominence to wikinews coverage of recent events and obituaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Recent_death
As noted on the discussion, please disclose if you have a wikinews-related
interest.
Brian.
This seems like an amazing chance for WikiProjects in almost any area.
(especially incubator projects ;)
You need to describe how your work supports open education, set a
project with milestones and metrics for success, and submit a grant
request:
http://blogs.talis.com/education/incubator/guidelines/
We do many of the things they ask for - licensing, educational focus,
making things visible and findable online - reflexively. It would be
great to see them get a whole specturm of wikimedia proposals. [if
you /do/ submit one, consider posting a version of it on strategy.wikimedia.org
as well. ]
SJ
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From: Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] Talis Incubator for Open Education funding available
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
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Via the Creative Commons blog - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17005
Talis Incubator for Open Education
For the latest news follow us on twitter: @talisincubator
Talis understands the growing importance of the Open Education
movement and its potential impact on how education is accessed,
assessed and certified.
Aimed at individuals or small groups, the Talis Incubator for Open
Education provides angel funding and other forms of assistance for
ideas and projects that have the potential to further the cause of
Open Education through the use of technology. All we ask in return is
that you donate or ‘open source’ the intellectual property generated
back to the communities that could benefit most from your work.
The brief
1. Write a proposal outlining your Open Education related project
or idea, making a bid for funding of between £1,000 and £15,000.
2. After reviewing and making sure your proposal meets the
guidelines, submit it to incubator(a)talis.com.
3. A proposal review board made up of independent thought leaders
and Talis representatives decide which projects get funding.
4. For successful bids, Talis awards you the funds and organises
any other help you have asked for.
5. Complete the project according to the schedule outlined in your proposal.
6. Talis helps you to make sure your work is disseminated amongst
the community.
from http://blogs.talis.com/education/incubator/
they also note "We also welcome applications from outside the UK,
however we regret that we can only consider and award amounts in GBP
(£), so if you are from outside the UK please account for exchange
rate fluctuation, and make sure you can receive funds paid in GBP."
Looks a bit interesting!
cheers
Brianna
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Strategic Planning office hours happen tomorrow - Tuesday - at
Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: 1-2pm PDT; 4-5pm EDT.
We're going to try having this conversation in #wikimedia-strategy
instead of taking over #wikimedia.
Hope to see you there!
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Wikimedia Foundation
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The Wikimedia Foundation's Board Election Committee has concluded the
board selection process, and is pleased to announce that the
candidates ranked as follows:
Final ranking
1 Ting Chen (Wing)
2 Kat Walsh (mindspillage)
3 Samuel Klein (Sj)
4 Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
5 Domas Mituzas (Midom)
6 Thomas Braun (Redlinux)
7 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (Cimon Avaro)
8 Steve Smith (Sarcasticidealist)
9 Dan Rosenthal (Swatjester)
10 José Gustavo Góngora (Góngora)
11 Brady Brim-DeForest (Bradybd)
12 Lourie Pieterse (LouriePieterse)
13 Adam Koenigsberg (CastAStone)
14 Ralph Potdevin (Aruspice)
15 Beauford Anton Stenberg (B9 hummingbird hovering)
16 Gregory Kohs (Thekohser)
17 Kevin Riley O'Keeffe (KevinOKeeffe)
18 Relly Komaruzaman (Relly Komaruzaman)
A full pairwise defeats table will be posted shortly.
These names have been respectfully submitted to the Board, which has
moved to seat the top three candidates.
The Committee wishes to thank all those who submitted themselves as
candidates. It was a broad and diverse field this year. We also wish
to recognize the many volunteers that helped with this process. The
committee extends its gratitude and thanks to them
For the committee,
Philippe
I finally made a weather bot according to my wishes. Its characteristics are:
* It gathers information from wund.com, but it is possible to make
plugins for other sites and protocols.
* It may gather data from all over the world.
* It may be localized in any language.
The only problem is that one iteration takes at least 5-7 minutes just
for weather in Serbia and just for Wikinews in Serbian. Probably, I
would be able to run enough of instances for covering weather in
Serbia for all Wikinews editions (or, questionable, to run enough of
instances to cover the whole world for sr.wn). That means that I'll
need your help (people who are able to run bots as cron jobs), so we
may cover the whole world for all Wikinews editions.
My other ask is related to programming the bot. I prefer to make the
bot as a collaborative work because it is not reasonable to expect
maintenance of one relatively huge project by just one person. I may
make subversion repository at SourceForge (or at one of the servers in
the company where I am working). If anyone of you are willing to join
me, let me know that. Also, all other ideas are welcome.
You may see its output here [1] (in Serbian).
[1] - http://sr.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%8…
Hi folks:
This is just a reminder: Eugene and I will be having our regular
weekly office hours to discuss strategic planning. The time for this
week is:
Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: Tuesday, 1-2pm PDT or
Tuesday, 4-5pm EDT.
The office hours will be held in #wikimedia on the IRC freenode network.
You can get more information at: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Office_Hours
Hope to see you there!
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategic Planning
Wikimedia Foundation
pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org
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Nominations are now being accepted for the Arbitration Committee.
The deadline for nominations is Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 23:59 UTC.
Elections will commence on Monday, August 10, 2009 and close on Monday,
August 17, 2009 at 23:59 UTC. The new Committee will be appointed on
Tuesday, August 18, 2009.
Please see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Arbitration
Committee/2009 elections
Please circulate this notice.
Thanks,
Computerjoe