Ah,
thanks for replies Daniel. Now its clear to me.
Juan
2010/1/30 Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de
Hi Juan
Juan de Vojníkov schrieb:
Hi,
If we are talking about billing, I would say that cheapest way is to rent
a
server for one or 2 years. So would it be a problem for WMDE to offer us support for one year?
Can you show me the different offers? How much cheaper would it be to rent for 1 year in advance, or even for 2?
Again, this is for Pavel to decide, but the larget the advance commitment, the greater the reluctance. I imagine that this would get easier once we see the project actually taking off. We have, err, mixed experiences with this kind of thing.
Also to send a reports every 3 month means the reports will be very simillar.
No problem. The point of the reports is to track activity and progress. We are liable to our donors, we have to document that we kame good use of the money the give us.
And one more comment from me. If I analyze conditions: *The server hosts
only
projects, software, etc. which are for the Wikimedia community - hope
that
WMDE understand, that Wikiversity is a place to host different
communities of
learners and teachers. It means, there might be group of students from different schools etc. using Wikiversity to fulfill their real life
education
goals within our projects. So my question would be if these are
understand
as Wikimedia community and if they can also operate on SS?
Heh, more policy questions - I'm the tech guy :P AS far as I understand, it would be fine to do anything there that is compatible with the goals and mission of wikimedia in general and wikiversity specifically. So, I suppose the projects should revolve about sharing knowledge, i.e. free content and open access. But they don't have to be limited to the actual wiki community.
basically, this requirement is to make sure that folks don't run a quake server or a spam relay there. So, how about this:
You come up with a mission statment and general rules for projects, and WMDE signs off on it.
o Our ideas for the next three months (which extensions, software, etc. should be develop, which software should test, etc.) - this might be hard
to
say, but as I commented before, Wikiversity core community is quite
small. So
every 3 month the report will be very similar. And if well stay with the original idea that SS is open to all Wikiversity participants in all languages with some core administrators, I think it might be difficult to say, what for example is this or that person planning to deploy next
month.
Well, it should be possible to come up with a plan. If you don't have any idea what you want to do, why start? So I suppose you do have some ideas. Just write them down!
It's not a requirement that you stick to the plan. We just want to know what you want to do, and what is actually happening. That's all. If the report is very similar every time - well, I'd hope that there's at least some progress in development and deployment, maybe some figures like number of users, of tools, of page views, etc.
The report doesn't need to be entertaining, boring is fine with us :)
-- daniel
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