[Foundation-l] Re: Open questions

[Anthere]

Though there are many suggestions on hiring and spending money, that 
does not mean we will follow all these suggestions. Some editors favored 
spending money to improve technical issues. Others to improve 
communication. Others to improve the grant area. Or the legal area.

I think in all these cases, we first need to really make sure we do not 
host the resources amongst ourselves. We obviously can not fund all of 
them right now.

There is one thing which is certain though. There is a lot to do, and we 
are currently stretched to the limit of our availabilities. One answer 
could be to try to get more editors involved in meta issues.

Ant

Dori a écrit:
> That's a lot of suggestions on hiring and spending money. Can we make sure 
> that the act of getting more money doesn't bankrupt the foundation? I would 
> hope some funds are set aside for hosting and rainy days.
> 
> On Apr 4, 2005 8:48 PM, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Thank you to everyone who replied to my questions at
>>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_agenda/Open_questions.
>>
>>A lot of good suggestions and helpful comments were made, and I'm
>>hoping we will be able to carry out some of these in the near future,
>>or to at least begin considering them.
>>
>>Here is a summary of some of the suggestions. The inclusion of these
>>does not mean there was necessarily agreement on carrying out the
>>suggestion. Please see [[m:Board agenda/Open questions]] for the full
>>discussion.
>>
>>== Hosting ==
>>* Delegate the management of offers or centralize all hosting offers with 
>>Jimbo
>>* Create a private wiki
>>* Hire a secretary for Jimbo
>>* Hire someone to manage grants and partnerships
>>* Use OTRS more effectively
>>* Run offers by a legal committee first
>>* Hire a lawyer to write contracts
>>* Ask potential partners/hosts whether we can list them among our
>>"potential partners and hosts" before doing so
>>* Have a standard response for people making offers
>>* Be clear about how we could integrate the resources on offer
>>* Consider placing databases outside the US
>>* Consider the legal implications of chapters owning servers
>>
>>== Trademarks ==
>>* The status of trademark/domain registrations should be listed on the
>>Foundation website
>>* A group should be tasked with keeping track of this information
>>* Get a lawyer to write a contract regarding licensing the logo
>>* See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_and_trademark_policy
>>
>>== Membership ==
>>* Create a portal that allows the community to pay one another to
>>produce such tasks
>>* Revive the membership task
>>* Hire a programmer
>>* Specifying tasks properly
>>* Mixed views on whether membership was worthwhile, but most thought it 
>>was.
>>
>>== Money ==
>>* Developer committee should advise on what to buy
>>* Budget should be documented
>>* Hire programmers for Wikispecies and have them write a decent UI
>>
>>== Promotion ==
>>* Appoint a multi-lingual PR coordinator
>>* Have an explicit PR budget
>>* Have an unofficial PR committee
>>* Spend more on promotion (not all agreed with this)
>>* Outreach programs to educational institutions
>>
>>== Grants ==
>>* Hire a full-time grants coordinator
>>* Find a way of getting more community involvement with grants
>>
>>== Developers ==
>>* Appoint a developer liaison and possibly a separate server liaison
>>* Encourage and empower the developer committee
>>
>>== Communication ==
>>* Clarify the relationship between the Board and the community
>>* Global message notification and translation
>>* More regular letters from the board
>>* More regular/more often meetings
>>* More formal involvement between chapters and the board
>>* Reform the OTRS procedures
>>* Reinvigorat the system of embassies, with elected ambassadors
>>
>>--
>>Angela.
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